Language over time : Some old and new uses of OKAY in American English

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Lessons from the study of prosody in English other-repetitions

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The prosody and phonetics of OKAY in American English

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Comparing language use in social interaction

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What a difference forty years make : The view from linguistics

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Turn-sharing revisited : An exploration of simultaneous speech in interactions between couples

This paper investigates one particular type of simultaneous speech, namely turn-sharing, in the Freiburg Sofa Talks, a corpus of video-recorded dyadic conversations between partners, friends, and siblings who are recollecting events they have experienced together in the past. The focus is on interactions in German and French. In turnsharing, participants aim at saying the same thing at the same time, using these moments to convey something to each other, and occasionally to a third party in the room. We identify two different types of turn-sharing, choral performance and chiming in, which are brought off by different micro-practices with verbal, prosodic, and bodily resources. Each type achieves something different interactionally, either displaying a shared affective stance towards something in an alternative world or embodying an epistemic claim to know as much as the main speaker. We conclude that choral performance and chiming in are two sedimented formats for turn-sharing that are achieved with different practices using semiotic resources that are comparable, if not identical, across languages. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe

Linking clauses for linking actions : Transforming requests and offers into joint ventures

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Action ascription and deonticity in everyday advice-giving sequences

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Directive turn design and intersubjectivity

Publisher Copyright: © 2021 John Benjamins Publishing Company.In this paper, we discuss turn design as a locus of intersubjectivity. We focus on two types of directives in Finnish interactions, turns formatted with second-person imperative and turns that contain zero person. Neither of these turn designs contains a separate subject phrase explicating the person(s) referred to, nor does either indicate when the action nominated is to take place. We study the kinds of assumptions these two turn designs make and present as shared, and the interplay of the assumptions in relation to the sequential and activity context of the turn. The design of turns and actions in sequences of interaction thus allows us to see intersubjectivity at work, even when repair does not take place.Peer reviewe