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- Cekaite, Asta, et al.
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The Comforting Touch: Tactile Intimacy and Talk in Managing Childrens Distress
- 2017
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 50:2, s. 109-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study examines young childrens distress management in situ, focusing on situations of crying and caregivers embodiedhapticsoothing responses in preschools in Sweden. The adults responses to crying involve embraces, stroking, and patting. Haptic soothing is managed by calibrating the bodily proximity and postural orientations between the participants, including hapticembracing or face-to-faceformations that are coordinated with particular forms of talk. Haptic formations configure specific affordances for embodied participation by actualizing the availability of tactile, aural, and visual modalities. The interactional organization of soothing in an embracing formation involves: an initiation/invitation and response, submergence of two bodies into a close haptic contact, and coordinated withdrawal from haptic contact. The embracing formation temporarily suspends the requirements for the distressed person to act like a responsive listener and speaker. The caregiver uses the face-to-face formation to reestablish conditions for the childs interactional co-presence. Data are in Swedish and English translation.
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- Cekaite, Asta
(författare)
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The Coordination of Talk and Touch in Adults Directives to Children: Touch and Social Control
- 2015
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Taylor andamp; Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 48:2, s. 152-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adults sometimes accompany the directives they issue to children about their actions and movements with bodily contact (for example, shoving, guiding, or pushing). This article explores the interactional uses and meanings of such combinations of spoken directive and bodily contact that involves touch in data from families and primary educational settings in Sweden. The focus is on how the timing and coordination of haptics (communicative acts of touch), speech, and contextual factors produce communicative meanings. Findings reveal how touch and talk are synchronized to achieve the childs compliance to directives. Laminated (that is, multimodal) directives combine concurrent use of imperatives with adults own haptic acts, signaling and enforcing the onset and/or trajectory of the required movement. They constitute the prevalent pattern of use, as compared to the use of control touch without accompanying verbalization. Haptic control formats are usually responsive to the child recipients noncompliant responses. The data are in Swedish with English translation.
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- Ivarsson, Jonas, 1976, et al.
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The organization of turn-taking in pool skate sessions
- 2015
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 48:4, s. 406-429
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study takes pool skating, where only one skater rides at a time, as an example of a turn-taking system, albeit one that is organized not through speech but through bodily actions. This allows us to revisit Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson’s (1974) famous “turn-taking” paper—in particular, their initial broad conception of turn-taking systems as including activities other than the speech-exchange systems studied by conversation analysis. Despite the original declaration, nonspeech turn-taking systems have evaded close scrutiny for the past four decades. By turning our attention to such a system here, this study makes two contributions: firstly, to the sociology of turn-organized activities (through a comparison of the central features of turn taking for conversation with pool skating) and, secondly, to the study of how bodily actions can accomplish pre-beginnings (since in pool skate sessions, this is the place to settle the matter of turn allocation in order to avoid overlaps in riding).
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- Keevallik, Leelo
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Sequence Initiation or Self-Talk? Commenting on the Surroundings While Mucking out a Sheep Stable
- 2018
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 51:3, s. 313-328
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates comments on the physical surroundings while a group of people are shoveling dung in a sheep stable. In this setting, where the auditory space is mostly open for talk, some comments launch a conversational sequence, while others are treated as self-talk. The article discusses how the speakers body posture, speech volume, and gaze, as well as the nature of the referent, contribute to attracting a response. Comments treated as self-talk are typically uttered with low volume, while the speaker is bending forwards with his or her gaze toward the ground. Comments that launch a sequence and achieve a focused interaction are instead spoken out loud, with the speakers body oriented toward the other participants, and deploy the recipients current attention focus. Furthermore, the timing of the comment just before an upcoming activity junction from shoveling to a brief rest increases the chances of a conversational sequence being developed. The data are in Estonian with an English translation.
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- Keevallik, Leelo, 1969-
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What Does Embodied Interaction Tell Us About Grammar?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Routledge. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 51:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article navigates the findings of conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and related multimodal studies to summarize what we know about the grammar-body interface. It shows how grammar is fitted to sequences and trajectories of embodied activities, as well as deployed interchangeably with bodily displays, resulting in truly multimodal patterns that emerge in real time. These findings problematize both the paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures documented in verbal-only linguistics. They call for a reconceptualization of grammar as an assembly of routinized methods for the organization of vocal conduct, capable of incorporating aspects of participants bodily behavior. Data are in Estonian, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Swedish.
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- Laanesoo, Kirsi, et al.
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Noticing Breaches with Nonpolar Interrogatives : Estonian Kes (“Who”) Ascribing Responsibility for Problematic Conduct
- 2017
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Routledge. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 50:3, s. 286-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article targets action formation in multimodal sequences. It shows how nonpolar interrogatives in Estonian are used for noticing breaches in others’ embodied conduct, focusing on kes (“who”)-interrogatives. In contrast to information questions with kes, a “noticing of a breach” does not seek an informative answer, which would be an identification of the grammatical actor of the action depicted in the interrogative. The actor is instead the addressee of the turn, often called by name, and thus clear to everyone present. These “rhetorical” kes-interrogatives formulate a just-observed conduct as problematic, and attribute responsibility for it. Since they call for either a remedy of the (embodied) conduct or a contesting of the blame as the next action, noticing breaches marginally qualify as directive actions. At the same time, they do not explicitly provide any guidelines for the future. The study argues that to determine function in language, it is necessary to study grammatical structures in their temporally emerging and embodied activity contexts. The data are Estonian with English translation.
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- Lindström, Jan, et al.
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Task-Completing Assessments in Service Encounters
- 2019
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 52:2, s. 85-103
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines positive low- and high-grade assessments in service encounters between customers and salespersons conducted in Swedish and recorded in Sweden and Finland. The assessments occur in a regular sequential pattern as third-turn moves that complete request-delivery sequences, longer coherent requesting sections, or request sequences in a pre-closing context. The positive valence of the assessments coheres with the satisfactory outcome of task completion, but their function is primarily pragmatic, used for segmenting the flow of task-oriented institutional interaction. The assessments stand as lexical TCUs, and their delivery is characterized by downgraded prosody and the speaker's embodied shift away from the other. The analysis reveals distributional differences in the interactional practice: Customers produce task-completing assessments more often than the salespersons, and high-grade assessments are more frequent in the data from Sweden than from Finland. The data are in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish with English translations.
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- Persson, Rasmus
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Fill-in-the-blank questions in interaction: Incomplete utterancesas a resource for doing inquiries
- 2017
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Routledge. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 50:3, s. 227-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on the use of syntactically incomplete utterances in talk-in-interaction as a resource for doing two sorts of inquiries: seeking information and initiating repair. The element inquired about is made relevant next, and typically given by the addressee, in the form of a completion fitted to the incomplete utterance. Using a vernacular term, the practice could be referred to as “asking a fill-in-the-blank question,” where syntactic structure is distributed across question and answer. It is shown how transition-relevance places can be set up in the absence of syntactic completion and how fill-in-the-blank questions thereby differ from other types of collaborative productions. The particular import and usefulness of incomplete utterances is demonstrated relative to other resources. The phenomenon shows that syntactic completion and turn completion need not coincide and illustrates how questions can constrain the form of answers through projection. Data are in French with English translation.
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- Szczepek Reed, Beatrice, et al.
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How speakers of different languages extend their turns : Word-linking and glottalisation in French and German
- 2016
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 49:2, s. 128-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A speaker who issues a confirming turn starting with particles like yes, oui, ja, and so on, may mean to extend it and provide further material. This study shows that French and German speakers employ the same phonetic contrast to indicate the nature of that turn continuation. In spite of the typological difference between the German use of glottalization and the French use of linking phenomena for word boundaries involving word-initial vowels, speakers of both languages exploit this contrast systematically in their design of multiunit turns. Initial confirmations are joined directly to subsequent vowel-fronted turn components when speakers respond with an internally cohesive multiunit confirming turn. The components are separated by glottalization when responses involve multiple actions or departures from a trajectory projected by the turn-initial confirmation. This is further evidence that sound patterns shape interaction and are not solely determined by language-specific phonologies. Data are in French and German with English translation.
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