Transitioning between activities with the Danish change-of-state token nå

•The change-of-state token nå can be used to propose transition between activities.•Proposals for transitions are accomplished with linguistic as well as embodied resources.•Proposals for transitioning between activities may involve moral obligations.

In this paper I demonstrate that the Danish change-of-state token nå, which is ordinarily employed to register a shift in a speaker's state of information, can also be used to propose and mark a transition between activities. While nå is indexical by nature, both its sequential position (after a topic or activity has been potentially closed down) and its composition (of being imbued with other - both lexical and physical - properties) mean that the co-participants have no trouble understanding when a nå indexes a shift in orientation and thus embodies a proposal to transition between activities, rather than serving as a simple receipt of information.