Kerrison NORDISCO23: Initiation in sports cheering

Kerrison presented at NORDISCO23 in Tampere on "Practices of initiation in sports cheering". Abstract: Instances of incipient talk have traditionally been defined as interactions where participants treat long silences as non-final and unproblematic "adjournments" (Schegloff & Sacks, 1973) of response relevance. This was originally understood in relation to speech but multimodal interaction research has been …

Kerrison ESN: A grammar of collective chanting

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, …