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 …