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Correction Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Published in Research on Language and Social Interaction (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Thanks to Reviewers Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Published in Research on Language and Social Interaction (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2023)
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Including Written Turns in Spoken Interaction: Chat as an Organizational and Participatory Resource in Video-Mediated Activities Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Tuire Oittinen
This study investigates the use of the chat interface in video-mediated learning activities. Drawing on screen-recorded data from an online crisis management course and using multimodal conversatio...
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Gaze in Interspecies Human–Pet Interaction: Some Exploratory Analyses Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Chloé Mondémé
This article examines video-recorded naturally occurring human–pet interactions during which the animal’s gaze is treated by the human as a turn-allocation device. Gaze exchange has been extensivel...
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Embodied-Visual Practices during Conversational Repair: Scoping Review Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Satu Saalasti, Kati Pajo, Barbara Fox, Seija Pekkala, Minna Laakso
Repair organization provides a powerful mechanism for handling problems of mutual understanding in natural conversation. Our study reviews past research on repair initiation and resolution practice...
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Cries of Pleasure and Pain: Vocalizations Communicating How Touch Feels in Romantic Relationships Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Julia Katila, Emily Hofstetter, Leelo Keevallik
Research on interaction has recently ventured into the domain of sensoriality, hitherto considered inaccessible for video analysis. This article contributes to this emerging field by targeting the ...
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Relocating to Depict: Managing the Interactional Agenda at Opera Rehearsals Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Agnes Löfgren
ABSTRACT A performer in an opera has to portray the character they are playing not only through the music but also in their visuospatial behaviors on stage. This article is about how performers and directors negotiate such portrayals through depictions that make proposed actions available for the other participants. The focus is on how depictions are initiated, through relocations in space, and how
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How to respond when patients invoke a diagnosis for themselves: Evidence from a nurse’s response practices in personality disorder interviews Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Maarit Lehtinen, Marco Pino
ABSTRACT What is going on when a psychiatric patient claims a psychiatric diagnosis for themselves which is different from the one a practitioner is investigating? We analyze cases from 10 interviews between psychiatric patients and a nurse using a formal interview schedule to assess whether the patient has a personality disorder. When the patient invokes (temporary) depression to explain some of their
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Self-Reformulation as a Preemptive Practice in Talk Addressed to L2 Users Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Jan Svennevig
ABSTRACT Self-reformulation is when a speaker produces a “second saying” of something, changing the wording but keeping the semantic content more or less unaltered. This conversational practice may constitute a method for avoiding potential understanding problems in talk addressed to second language users. Speakers preempt problems by substituting a potentially problematic word or construction with
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Making a Mistake, or Cheating: Two Sequential Trajectories in Corrections of Rule Violations Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Hanna Svensson, Burak S. Tekin
ABSTRACT What happens when a player in a game makes a move that may violate a basic rule? We address this question by analyzing amateur pétanque play, in which participants, from the same throwing position, try to land their throwing balls as close as possible to a target ball. We examine what happens when someone stands in the “wrong” place to throw, and find two distinct sequential trajectories that
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Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction: From Action Formation to Grammatical Description Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen
ABSTRACT Is it possible to develop a comprehensive grammar of talk-in-interaction for a specific language based on descriptions of social actions? This is the question we will try to answer in this article. The article is based on the work of the project The Grammar in Everyday Life, which aims to build a systematic grammatical description of Danish talk-in-interaction based on descriptions of social
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Designing Talk for Humans and Horses: Prosody as a Resource for Parallel Recipient Design Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Beatrice Szczepek Reed
ABSTRACT This analysis shows how, in horse-riding lessons, riding instructors use prosody and other sound patterns to design their talk for human and equine recipients at the same time, while orienting to distinct contributions from each. Practices for doing so include nonlexical vocalizations, marked prosodic delivery, and conventionalized lexical-prosodic bundles. Parallel recipient design allows
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Shared Knowledge as an Account for Disaffiliative Moves: Hebrew ki ‘Because’-Clauses Accompanied by the Palm-Up Open-Hand Gesture Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Anna Inbar, Yael Maschler
ABSTRACT Exploring the grammar–body interface, the present study examines employment of Hebrew causal clauses prefaced by the conjunction ki “because” in responsive disaffiliative moves. We show that in such environments, ki-clauses tend to convey information that appeals to the participants’ shared knowledge and to be accompanied by the Palm Up Open Hand gesture (PUOH). We argue that the PUOH in such
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Audible Inhalation as a Practice for Mitigating Systemic Turn-Taking Troubles: A Conjecture Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Jeffrey D. Robinson
ABSTRACT Extending Jefferson’s analysis of the limited utility of turn-constructional-unit (TCU)-initial particles in managing overlapping talk, this article limits itself to a similar turn-taking context/position in which current speakers bring TCUs to places of possible completion when it is relevant for next speakers to take a turn of talk. This article examines situations in which current speakers
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Responding to In-the-Moment Distress in Emotion-Focused Therapy Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Peter Muntigl, Lynda Chubak, Lynne Angus
ABSTRACT Emotion-focused therapy offers a setting in which clients report on their personal experiences, some of which involve intense moments of distress. This article examines video-recorded interactional sequences of client distress displays and therapist responses. Two main findings extend understanding of embodied actions clients display as both a collection of distress features and as interactional
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Anticipation and Delivery of a Personality Disorder Diagnosis in Psychiatry Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Liisa Voutilainen, Anssi Peräkylä
ABSTRACT A personality disorder (PD) diagnosis can be considered by a patient to be stigmatizing. This presents interactional challenges for the clinician who makes the diagnosis and communicates it to the patient.Through an analysis of video-recorded clinical interviews of PD patients, we explore the anticipation and delivery of the diagnosis in psychiatry. The method of the study is conversation
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Enforcing Rules During Play: Knowledge, Agency, and the Design of Instructions and Reminders Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Laurenz Kornfeld, Giovanni Rossi
ABSTRACT Rules of behavior are fundamental to human sociality. Whether on the road, at the dinner table, or during a game, people monitor one another’s behavior for conformity to rules and may take action to rectify violations. In this study, we examine two ways in which rules are enforced during games: instructions and reminders. Building on prior research, we identify instructions as actions produced
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Language Choice and the Multilingual Soundscape: Overhearing as a Resource for Recipient-Design in Impromptu First-Time Encounters Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Philipp Hänggi
ABSTRACT When previously unacquainted people spontaneously strike up a conversation in multilingual public space, a fundamental practical problem with which they may be faced is language choice. Using video recordings of naturally-occurring first-time encounters collected in a variety of public settings, this article shows that one way of calibrating initial language choice in emergent encounters is
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History-Taking Questions During Triage in Emergency Medicine Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Seung-Hee Lee, Chan Woong Kim
ABSTRACT Triage in emergency medicine is the initial process of assessing and categorizing urgency of patients’ conditions. During triage, nurses elicit patients’ problems and gather additional information through history taking and physical examination. This paper examines ways in which triage nurses construct history-taking questions and manage the task of urgency assessment. In video-recordings
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Look At/Check X: An Attention-And-Approval-Seeking Device Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Catherine L. Tam
ABSTRACT In the home, parents and children are often co-present but engaged with different tasks. When children wish to engage their parents about something they have produced/are producing and to monitor their understanding of it, they need a means of obtaining both parental attention and understanding. I examine instances of children using the look at X directive (and its variant in South African
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Thanks to Reviewers 2021–2022 Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-11-02
Published in Research on Language and Social Interaction (Vol. 55, No. 4, 2022)
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Handling Turn Transitions in Australian Tactile Signed Conversations Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Shimako Iwasaki, Meredith Bartlett, Louisa Willoughby, Howard Manns
ABSTRACT This article explores how deafblind Australian Sign Language (Auslan) users, who communicate through an alternative range of modalities including tactile (hands) and kinetic (body movement) inputs, manage turn transitions. Studies of deafblind communication have typically employed a signal-based approach. In contrast, this article applies broader Conversational Analysis (CA) frameworks, which
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Hurting and Blaming: Two Components in the Action Formation of Complaints About Absent Parties Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Marco Pino
ABSTRACT This article investigates the action formation of complaints about absent parties—asking what makes them recognizable as such. It shows that recipient responses display their understanding that complaints comprise two components: a display of hurt (related to the impact of the complained-of events) and a blaming (attributing responsibility to an absent party). The setting, a bereavement support
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Alignment, Affiliation, and Engagement: Mothers’ Wow in Parent-Child Interactions Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Ying Jin, Younhee Helen Kim, Mia Huimin Chen
ABSTRACT As a type of response token that involves emotional displays, interjections have received a substantial amount of scholarly interest in linguistics. Yet a paucity of research focuses on how emotion is displayed via interjections in interactions in situ. This article focuses on how surprise and other associated emotions are accomplished via wow in Mum’s turn when interacting with the child
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Over-Exposed Self-Correction: Practices for Managing Competence and Morality Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Galina B. Bolden, Alexa Hepburn, Jonathan Potter, Kaicheng Zhan, Wan Wei, Song Hee Park, Aleksandr Shirokov, Hee Chung Chun, Aleksandra Kurlenkova, Dana Licciardello, Marissa Caldwell, Jenny Mandelbaum, Lisa Mikesell
ABSTRACT When repairing a problem in their talk, speakers sometimes do more than simply correct an error, extending the self-correction segment to comment on, repeat, apologize, and/or reject the error. We call this “over-exposed self-correction.” In over-exposing the error, speakers may manage (and reflexively construct) a range of attributional troubles that it has raised. We discuss how over-exposed
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Correction Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-06-03
(2022). Correction. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. I-I.
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Self-Repeats-as-Unit-Ends: A Practice for Promoting Interactivity During Surgeons’ Decision-Related Informings Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Isobel Ross, Maria Stubbe
ABSTRACT Although information provision is a prerequisite of informed decision making in surgical consultations, research has shown that patients’ understanding of such information is often limited. We use conversation analysis to illustrate patients’ and surgeons’ management of interactivity, intersubjectivity, and progressivity during information provision, which frequently takes the form of extended
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Guiding Children to Respond: Prioritizing Children’s Participation Over Interaction Progression Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Ruey-Ying Liu
ABSTRACT When adults select young children to answer questions, children’s delays and troubles in responding may lead to a tension between child participation and the preference for progressivity that normally applies to conversations among adults. Drawing on everyday adult-child conversational data, this study focuses on question-answer sequences in which the selected child does not respond in a timely
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Loosely Portrayed Speech in Interaction: Constructing Multiple Complainable Utterances Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Elizabeth Holt
ABSTRACT Conversation analysis is used in investigating the interactional uses of loosely portrayed speech in interaction. This device combines elements of direct and indirect portrayal, conveying some fidelity to an original while, at the same time, indicating that it is not verbatim enactment of specific utterances. The instances in the current collection are in English, deriving from informal interaction
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Depictive Hand Gestures as Candidate Understandings Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja, Niina Lilja
ABSTRACT This article uses multimodal CA to analyze depictive hand gestures that are used to check understanding of the co-participant’s preceding action. Drawing on data from cooking and farming interactions, the analysis scrutinizes how depictive gestures come to be treated as other-initiations of repair. The analysis shows that relevant factors in this are: (a) the gesture’s design, i.e., its form
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The Bias Toward Single-Unit Turns in Conversation Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Jeffrey D. Robinson, Christoph Rühlemann, Daniel Taylor Rodriguez
ABSTRACT Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson argued that the rules for turn taking for conversation involve a confluence of pressures that bias turn size toward single turn constructional units (TCUs), which leads to an empirical prediction that turns are more likely to be composed of single (vs. multiple) TCUs. We directly test and confirm this “single-TCU bias” by using conversation analysis, corpus
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On Being Known: Displays of Familiarity in Italian Café Encounters Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Federica D’Antoni, Elwys De Stefani
ABSTRACT This article explores the embodied and linguistic practices by which visitors and staff members of cafés display recognition of and mutual familiarity with each other. Based on video data collected in two Italian cafés, we use conversation analysis to examine two sequential positions where displays of familiarity are salient, i.e., the initial moments of the encounter and the placement of
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Apologizing in Elementary School Peer Conflict Mediation Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Rosa Korpela, Salla Kurhila, Melisa Stevanovic
ABSTRACT We analyze apologizing as part of the institutional agenda of school mediation in Finland. When primary school teachers intervene to mediate a dispute, the children orient to apologizing as a ritualized, expected, and recognizable action that resolves the matter. Teachers build, step by step, a sequence that, when preconditions are met, results in the parties involved in the dispute producing
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Talking Down Pain in the Prosthesis Clinic: The Emergence of a Local Preference Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Renata Galatolo, Alessandra Fasulo
ABSTRACT Understanding and evaluating pain is a growing concern in clinical practice and health care. In this article we examine how pain is talked about in 24 video-recorded visits of a team of medical professionals with postsurgery amputees. We identify a paradox: Although it is medically useful to identify postamputation pain (it can indicate problematic healing and deter application of a prosthesis)
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Indicating Difficulty in Describing Something in Words: The Use of Koo in Word Searches in Japanese Talk-in-Interaction Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Shuya Kushida, Makoto Hayashi
ABSTRACT This study explores how the lexical hesitator koo is used to initiate or continue word searches in Japanese talk-in-interaction. The word koo (“like this,” “in this manner”) is canonically used as a proximal demonstrative adverb of manner, often accompanied by a depicting gesture. We argue that because of its continuity with the canonical use, the hesitator koo (a) projects a descriptive term
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Using Categories to Assert Authority in Murrinhpatha-Speaking Children’s Talk Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Lucinda Davidson
ABSTRACT Children, like speakers more generally, often use categories of person, place, and activity (e.g., doctor, school, bedtime) to frame and monitor interactions among themselves. This article explores the use of categories by a group of Murrinhpatha-speaking Aboriginal children in Wadeye, northern Australia, when attempting to assert authority. The creation and negotiation of power asymmetries
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Co-Animation in Troubles-Talk Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Marina Noelia Cantarutti
ABSTRACT Through troubles-talk, participants disclose and negatively assess unfortunate past or habitual happenings and offenses, and these are often vividly staged in the here and now by temporarily “doing being” past Self or others, what we call animation. In this study, we show how by animating their own affective reactions toward the recounted experiences, tellers cast themselves as victims and
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Thanks to Reviewers Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-11-08
(2021). Thanks to Reviewers. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. i-i.
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Transitions as a Series of Sequences: Implications in Testing for and Diagnosing Autism Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Adam Talkington, Douglas W. Maynard
ABSTRACT Children who receive a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are said to have characteristic difficulty with transitions. However, testing that informs ASD diagnosis overlooks children’s conduct during transitions between subtasks of the test. In this article, we describe and analyze the sequential organization of such transitions. First, we show that transitions come as an organized
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Pursuing Common Ground: Nondisaffiliative Rhetorical Questions in Mandarin Conversations Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Wei Wang
ABSTRACT Rhetorical questions have been regularly observed to implement disaffiliative actions in conversations such as challenging, complaining, or retorting. This article, however, reports on nondisaffiliative uses of rhetorical questions based on a particular structure in Mandarin, bushi … ma, which can serve as a conventional question, a disaffiliative rhetorical question, or a nondisaffiliative
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What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Alexandra Gubina, Emma Betz
ABSTRACT This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a)
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Timing and Prosody of Lexical Repetition: How Repeated Instructions Assist Visually Impaired Athletes’ Navigation in Sport Climbing Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Monica Simone, Renata Galatolo
ABSTRACT How can lexical repetition help in guiding someone to do something? We take the example of sports climbing. Climbing demands complex bodily movements to reach holds and propel the body upwards. It is harder for visually impaired athletes, since they cannot see in advance where holds are located, so guides help them. There is a great deal of interplay between the (a) affordances of the climbing
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How to Use Comic-Strip Graphics to Represent Signed Conversation Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-07-26
ABSTRACT This article explores comic-strip-inspired graphic transcripts as a tool to present conversational video data from informal multiperson conversations in a signed language, specifically Norwegian Sign Language (NTS). The interlocutors’ utterances are represented as English translations in speech bubbles rather than glossed or phonetically transcribed NTS, and the article discusses advantages
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Embodiment in Dissent: The Eye Roll as an Interactional Practice Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-08-17
ABSTRACT This article investigates a recognizable embodied practice for displaying dissent: the “eye roll,” whereby the eyes are rolled up or sideways in their sockets as a response to something said or done. On a corpus of videoed interaction, it shows that: (a) the eye roll may be only the most salient—visible—element of a constellation of practices embodying dissent; and (b) it can be quite specific
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Body Trouble: Some Sources of Difficulty in the Progressive Realization of Manual Action Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-07-15
(2021). Body Trouble: Some Sources of Difficulty in the Progressive Realization of Manual Action. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 277-298.
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The Interactional Costs of “Neutrality” in Police Interviews with Child Witnesses Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-07-23
ABSTRACT This paper concerns the interactional dilemma between displaying affiliation and doing being neutral. This dilemma is highly salient in police interviews with child witnesses where interviewing guidelines encourage police officers to take a neutral stance to avoid steering children’s stories. In this article, we use conversation analysis to analyze childrens’ volunteered accounts of their
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How a Terminal Tag Can Display Epistemic Stance and Constrain Responses: The Case of Oder Nicht in German Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-07-19
ABSTRACT This conversation analytic study explores German turn-final oder nich(t), as in Soll ich jetzt weiterlesen oder nicht (“should I continue reading or not”). These oder nicht-appended questions raise one state of affairs and invoke its negated version via oder nicht. They emerge in environments in which epistemics and/or deontics are negotiated. Through these turns, participants index their
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Longitudinal Conversation Analysis - Introduction to the Special Issue Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Arnulf Deppermann, Simona Pekarek Doehler
ABSTRACT How do people’s interactional practices change over time? Can conversation analysis identify those changes, and if so, how? In this introductory article, we scrutinize the novel insights that can be gained from examining interactional practices over time and discuss the related methodological challenges for longitudinal CA. We first retrace CA’s interest in the temporality of social interaction
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Recruiting Assistance in Early Childhood: Longitudinal Changes in the Use of “Oh+X” as a Way of Reporting Trouble in German Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Martin Pfeiffer, Marina Anna
ABSTRACT Based on longitudinal audiovisual data from family interactions, we focus on how young children between 1;08 and 2;10 report trouble they are encountering in their current activity using the response cry oh in combination with other lexical items (e.g., “oh fell off”) and bodily displays. While at a very young age the children remain focused on their activity and try to solve the problem independently
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Initiating a Complaint: Change Over Time in French L2 Speakers’ Practices Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Klara Skogmyr Marian
ABSTRACT This study documents change over time and across proficiency levels in French second-language (L2) speakers’ practices for initiating complaints. Prior research has shown that speakers typically initiate complaints in a stepwise manner that indexes the contingent, moral, and delicate nature of the activity. Although elementary speakers in my data often launch complaint sequences in a straightforward
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The Routinization of Grammar as a Social Action Format: A Longitudinal Study of Video-Mediated Interactions Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Simona Pekarek Doehler, Ufuk Balaman
ABSTRACT In this article, we provide longitudinal evidence for the progressive routinization of a grammatical construction used for social coordination purposes in a highly specialized activity context: task-oriented video-mediated interactions. We focus on the methodic ways in which, over the course of 4 years, a second language speaker and initially novice to such interactions coordinates the transition
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Conversation Analysis and the Study of Sociohistorical Change Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Steven E. Clayman, John Heritage
ABSTRACT We reflect on the affordances and challenges of interactional data in the analysis of long-term institutional change. To this end we draw on our studies of direct encounters between journalists and politicians in news interviews and presidential news conferences and in particular the use of question design as a window into the evolution of journalistic norms and press-state relations over
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Is Conversation Built for Two? The Partitioning of Social Interaction Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Tanya Stivers
ABSTRACT Conversation is flexible enough to be conducted with varying numbers of individuals, but most conversation is dyadic. Is the prevalence of dyadic focal participation frameworks facilitated by structures of conversation? Using video recordings of spontaneous naturally occurring conversations, I explore multiperson interactions focusing on how structures of turn taking, sequence organization
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Are They Requests? An Exploration of Declaratives of Trouble in Service Encounters Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Barbara A. Fox, Trine Heinemann
ABSTRACT Despite extensive literature on what may be involved in making a request, there is dispute among scholars as to which linguistic formats constitute the social action of making a request proper. In this study, we examine the much-disputed declarative request format and in particular what we call “declaratives of trouble.” We present evidence that in the context of a service encounter such as
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Preference and Polarity: Epistemic Stance in Question Design Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 John Heritage, Chase Wesley Raymond
ABSTRACT This article considers the use of negative polarization in polar (yes/no) questions. It argues that question polarity is used to take an epistemic stance toward the probability or improbability of the state of affairs referenced in the question and that taking such a stance is effectively unavoidable. Focusing on negatively polarized questions (NPQs), four main kinds of evidence are adduced
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Probability and Valence: Two Preferences in the Design of Polar Questions and Their Management Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Chase Wesley Raymond, John Heritage
ABSTRACT This study expands and refines the argument presented by Heritage and Raymond by demonstrating that the orientation to probability in question design can intersect with a second orientation toward the positive or negative desirability—or valence—of the state of affairs inquired into. In most cases, the orientations to probability and to positively valenced information can be satisfied simultaneously:
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An Adjunct to Repair: You Know in Speech Production and Understanding Difficulties Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Steven E. Clayman, Chase Wesley Raymond
ABSTRACT The English-language particle you know is frequently associated with speech production and understanding difficulties. The present study combines sequential and distributional analyses to explicate the particle’s relationship to the conversational repair system. It demonstrates that you know functions as an adjunct to repair, addressing secondary difficulties associated with implementing self-repair
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Affiliating in Second Position: Response Tokens with Rising Pitch in Danish Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Søren Sandager Sørensen
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of the Danish response tokens ja (“yes”) and nej (“no”) with rising pitch in everyday interaction in Danish. Ja and nej do more than (dis)confirmation, and the analysis shows that the tokens with rising pitch achieve affiliation in second position in sequences containing displays of affective stance, which is shown to be contrastive with the tokens with level
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An Adjunct to Repair: You Know in Speech Production and Understanding Difficulties Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Steven E. Clayman, Chase Wesley Raymond
ABSTRACT The English-language particle you know is frequently associated with speech production and understanding difficulties. The present study combines sequential and distributional analyses to explicate the particle’s relationship to the conversational repair system. It demonstrates that you know functions as an adjunct to repair, addressing secondary difficulties associated with implementing self-repair
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Preference and Polarity: Epistemic Stance in Question Design Research on Language and Social Interaction (IF 4.158) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 John Heritage, Chase Wesley Raymond
ABSTRACT This article considers the use of negative polarization in polar (yes/no) questions. It argues that question polarity is used to take an epistemic stance toward the probability or improbability of the state of affairs referenced in the question and that taking such a stance is effectively unavoidable. Focusing on negatively polarized questions (NPQs), four main kinds of evidence are adduced