Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Kerrison presented at the 39th annual OFTI conference, Uppsala, Sept. 21-22. Did you SEE that? The co-construction of a match between two invisible wrestlers In the execution of a professional wrestling move it is often the recipient that will actually make the move look impressive by “selling” it with their reaction. Recipients will stagger backwards …
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Kerrison presented at the Embodied Syntax Network Conference, Sept 7-8 2023. A grammar of collective chanting at sporting events Chanting as a practice in collective cheering is recognizable by the use of specific sets of rhythmic Chanting Cadences (Kerrison, 2018). The use of a known and conventional cadence provides mutually recognizable instructions for prosody, pacing, …
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Keevallik, Hofstetter, Löfgren, & Wiggins presented at the Embodied Syntax Network conference, Sept 8 2023, on the syntax of response cries. Abstract: The essence of response cries, as described by Goffman (1978), is that their sequential placement in the immediate aftermath of an event performs them as visceral reactions to this event. While some studies …
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Keevallik is presenting the keynote address at Copenhagen Multimodality Day, October 6th. Beyond sequentiality: The broad field of interaction analysis has traditionally relied on the understanding that participants act after each other, one at a time (Sacks et al. 1974), with regular exceptions such as terminal overlap or “early” responses (Depperman et al. 2021). Several …
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Keevallik recently presented at the Mannheim seminar series in Sprache – Leib – Interaktion, as a guest lecturer. Vocal and syntactic aspects of embodied togetherness Abstract: In this talk I will depart from activities where people are involved in embodied tasks, such as practicing pilates, learning to dance, or shoveling dung, in order to explore …
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The International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2023, in Brisbane Australia, has arrived! The non-lexicals team has quite a number of different contributions, summarized and linked here: Workshop: Keevallik on Affiliation. Panel: Hofstetter & Keevallik have organized a panel on Strain in interaction, thanks to the following wonderful contributors: Misao Okada - Japanese turn-initial particle, hai, …
As part of the panel on Exploring food practices: Body, materiality, and sociality, Keevallik & Wiggins will present -- Sounds of disgust: Young children’s non-lexical orientations to food during shared mealtimes. International Conference on Conversation Analysis, 2023. Brisbane, Australia. Abstract: Sharing a meal involves eating the same foods not only in a material sense but also …
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Löfgren, A., Hofstetter, E. & Keevallik, L. (2023). Are you serious? Depictions at opera rehearsals. Nordisco 2023, Tampere, Finland. During scenic opera rehearsals, the participants work together to create portrayals of characters to music. They use depictions--momentary scenes staged for the other participants--to propose and negotiate character behaviors that suit the developing aesthetics of the …
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As part of the Interactional Histories panel at ICCA2023, Löfgren is presenting on the development of depictions in opera rehearsals. Abstract: This paper targets opera performer proposals of dramatic actions - actions to be carried out on stage to music in the service of portraying the characters. The performers both describe and depict (Clark, 2016) …
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Pelikan, H.R.M. (2023). Robot Sound-In-Interaction. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23 Companion), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3579975 Abstract: Sound is an important interaction modality in human interaction, which robot design is only starting to tap into. Drawing on insights about how human sounds support …
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