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. (2022). The Body in Social Interaction. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.135 Communicative action can be carried out by not only verbal but also embodied means. People regularly use multimodal resources to make sense for each other. Consider a mundane activity, such as a greeting. In addition to the choice of lexical …
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Broth, M., & Keevallik, L. (2023). Språk och kropp i samspel. In S. Ericson, I.-L. Grahn, & S. Karlsson (Eds.), Att analysera interaktion (pp. 175–192). Studentliterattur. https://www.studentlitteratur.se/kurslitteratur/sprakvetenskap-och-sprakdidaktik/svenska-och-nordiska-sprak/att-analysera-interaktion/
On November 24th, 2023, Agnes Löfgren defended her PhD dissertation successfully, entitled "Bodies to suit the music: Depictions in opera rehearsals". Her opponent was Beatrice Szczepek Reed, with committee Spencer Hazel, Oliver Ehmer, and Stefan Norrthon. Abstract: This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, …
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Pekarek Doehler, Keevallik, Li have edited a special issue at Frontiers in Communication on The Grammar-Body Interface, with an introduction here. Abstract: Human communication rests on a complex ecology of multiple resources that are orchestrated for collaborative meaning-making and coordination of social action. The aim of this Research Topic is to analyze how grammar and …
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Wiggins and Keevallik are presenting the paper "Lip-smacks and the multimodal co-ordination of eating with an infant" at IPrA2021, June 27-July 2, Winterthur, Switzerland. Their paper is part of the panel "Food-in-the-making, Materiality and Sensoriality in Social Interaction", organized by Sally Wiggins & Lorenza Mondada.
Keevallik was invited to give a plenary lecture on embodied syntax at LANSI, January 15 2021. Abstract: Syntax and multimodality in pedagogical practice It is widely accepted that in order to communicate intellectual information people use language in both spoken and written form. When it comes to teaching bodily skills, however, a combination of linguistic …
Weatherall et al. have a publication in Language & Communication on pain displays with multimodal resources. The Multimodality and Temporality of Pain Displays Ann Weatherall, Leelo Keevallik, Jessica La, Tony Dowell, Maria Stubbe Abstract The present paper takes an interactional approach to the problem of communicating pain. We ask how a shared understanding of this …
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Wiggins and Osvaldsson Cromdal have recently edited a volume on how the body is may be studied from a discursive psychology perspective, the study of how psychological concepts and phenomena are organized in social interaction. See especially the following chapters with contributions from the Non-lexical vocalizations team: Wiggins, S. & Osvaldsson Cromdal (2020). Bodies in …
Löfgren presented 'Mixing song and speech when proposing at opera rehearsals' at the Copenhagen Multimodality Day, 4 October, Copenhagen. This paper explores the interplay between aesthetic performance and social interaction by targeting suggestion sequences at an opera rehearsal. Suggestions in this setting are mostly made by the director, who is ultimately responsible for the dramatic …
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