Hannah Pelikan presented on her research on human-robot interaction at KTH, Stockhom, in their Sound in Human-Robot Interaction - Sound and Music seminar, October 2022.
Keevallik 2023: Strain grunts and Goffman
Keevallik, L. (2023). Strain grunts and the organization of participation. In L. Mondada & A. Peräkylä (Eds.), Body, participation, and the self: New perspectives on Goffman in language and interaction (pp. 143–169). Routledge. This chapter looks at how people vocally display bodily strain. While strain sounds can be a “leakage” of an individual bodily effort, …
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Keevallik et al. NORDISCO23: Sounds and touch during affective episodes
Keevallik, Hofstetter, and Julia Katila (Tampere University) gave a sneak peak of their upcoming paper at Nordisco23 in Tampere, with the presentation "Sounds and touch during affective episodes between romantic partners", based on data collected by Julia Katila. Abstract: Research on interaction has only recently ventured into the domain of the senses, hitherto considered inaccessible …
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Hofstetter et al. OFTI23: Responses to response cries
Hofstetter, Keevallik, Kerrison, Löfgren, Pelikan & Wiggins presented at OFTI, Uppsala, Sept. 21-22, 2023. Responses to response cries Goffman’s (1978) seminal work on response cries showed the social order inherent in the sounds often thought to be chaotic. While Goffman claimed that RCs produce “no dialog”, studies of recorded interaction show that RCs are regularly …
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Keevallik et al. ESN: Syntax of response cries
Keevallik, Hofstetter, Löfgren, & Wiggins presented at the Embodied Syntax Network conference, Sept 8 2023, on the syntax of response cries. Abstract: The essence of response cries, as described by Goffman (1978), is that their sequential placement in the immediate aftermath of an event performs them as visceral reactions to this event. While some studies …
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NLV Team at ICCA2023
The International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2023, in Brisbane Australia, has arrived! The non-lexicals team has quite a number of different contributions, summarized and linked here: Workshop: Keevallik on Affiliation. Panel: Hofstetter & Keevallik have organized a panel on Strain in interaction, thanks to the following wonderful contributors: Misao Okada - Japanese turn-initial particle, hai, …
Wiggins: Beyond the battles of the dinner table
Wiggins has published an article in The Psychologist magazine covering her research into family mealtimes and children's eating habits. In particular, she covers ways in which children's food preferences can become a source of tension when certain sequences of talk are initiated. It's open access - take a look!
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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Keevallik @ Linköping University: Varför grymtar man på gymmet?
Keevallik has appeared in Linköping University's lecture series Populärvetenskapliga Veckan 2020 (Popular Science Week). The lecture covers an introduction to non-lexical vocalizations (in Swedish). Abstract: Leelo Keevallik, professor i språk och kultur Människor uttalar olika märkliga ljud, såsom att man säger mmm när maten smakar gott eller utbrister ett besviket uaaah när motspelaren gör ett …
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Weatherall et al: Multimodality and temporality of pain displays
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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