Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Keevallik & Hofstetter have edited a special issue on the phenomenon of Sounding for Others, in Language & Communication. Thank you to our wonderful collaborators for their excellent papers. Summaries of the texts can be found below: Editorial abstract by Keevallik & Hofstetter: Standard models of language and communication depart from the assumption that speakers …
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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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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 is presenting a talk at Stockholm University, May 22nd 2019. Vocalizing and the body in interaction The human body is regularly ignored in studies of language. Based on data from occasions of joint physical work, such as clearing a sheep stable, and instruction of dance and pilates, the paper shows how vocal resources are …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 