Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Keevallik, Hofstetter, Löfgren, & Wiggins have published an article tracing the syntactic structures involving response cries. Abstract Response cries have been described as ritualized acts in human communication that come off as visceral reactions to local events (Goffman, 1978). Despite evidence that they are implemented at specific interactional moments, such as pain expressions in response …
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Keevallik, L. (2023). Strain grunts and the organization of participation. In L. Mondada & A. Peräkylä (Eds.), Body, participation, and the self: New perspectives on Goffman in language and interaction (pp. 143–169). Routledge. This chapter looks at how people vocally display bodily strain. While strain sounds can be a “leakage” of an individual bodily effort, …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 