Hofstetter & Keevallik 2023: Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies

Hofstetter & Keevallik have recently published "Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies" in a special issue on Sounding for Others. Abstract: While the lexico-grammatical and embodied practices in various instructional activities have been explored in-depth (Keevallik, 2013; Simone & Galatolo, 2020), the vocal capacities deployed by instructors have not been in focus. …

DMCA2022: Kerrison: Anticipatory responses by sports crowds

At the online Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis, Oct. 31st-Nov. 4th 2022, Kerrison presented on "Anticipatory responses by sports crowds" Abstract: Crowd noise in sport is typically associated with loud and dramatic responses to consequential in-game events: a goal in the final moments, an egregious foul by an opponent, the final whistle that confirms a …

Workshop report: Sound objects and non-lexicals

Written by Hannah Pelikan. Keynote Lecture on Methodology In our second workshop on October 2-4, 2019, we continued to discuss non-lexical vocalizations, which have also been termed sound objects (Reber, 2013). Elisabeth Reber from the University of Würzburg, Germany kicked off our workshop with an inspiring talk on methodological and theoretical perspectives on sound objects. …