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Katila et al. 2023: Vocalizations communication how touch feels

Katila, J., Hofstetter, E., & Keevallik, L. (2023). Cries of Pleasure and Pain: Vocalizations Communicating How Touch Feels in Romantic Relationships. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 56(4), 330–349. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2023.2272529 Research on interaction has recently ventured into the domain of sensoriality, hitherto considered inaccessible for video analysis. This article contributes to this emerging field by …

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Keevallik & Hofstetter: Special issue on Sounding for Others

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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Keevallik et al. 2023: Sounding for others

Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter, Ann Weatherall & Sally Wiggins have published an article defining and providing an overview of the phenomenon of 'sounding for others'. This study investigates the practice of “sounding for others,” wherein one person vocalizes to enact someone else’s putatively ongoing bodily sensation. We argue that it constitutes a collaborative way of performing …

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Wiggins & Keevallik 2023 Disgust in the face and body

Wiggins, S., & Keevallik, L. (2023). Transformations of Disgust in Interaction: The Intertwinement of Face, Sound and the Body. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 6(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v6i2.134841 Expressions of disgust have typically been studied as isolated faces or voices but rarely as embodied practices in everyday interaction. Building on multimodal interactional research …

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IPrA2021: Non-lexicals and multisensoriality panel

Hofstetter and Keevallik have organized a panel at IPrA2021 on non-lexical vocalizations and how they are used to do sensory work, "Nonlexical vocalizations and the sensing body", IPrA, June 27-July 2, Winterthur, Switzerland. We are joined by the following experts and their research presentations: Emily Hofstetter. Interactionally situating the power scream: Analyzing bodily motivated vocalizations …

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Wiggins & Keevallik: Enacting gustatory pleasure on behalf of another

Wiggins and Keevallik have published a new article on how mothers use 'mm' sounds when feeding their infants, entitled 'Enacting gustatory pleasure on behalf of another: The multimodal coordination of infant tasting practices.' Available in Symbolic Interaction, open access. Abstract: Tasting as a social practice can be enacted on behalf of others through precisely positioned …

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