27.2885, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2885, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:00:38
From: Elisabeth Zima [elisabeth.zima at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: Multimodal Turn-Taking

Full Title: Multimodal Turn-Taking 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 16-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Elisabeth Zima
Meeting Email: elisabeth.zima at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

As early as 1967, Adam Kendon argued for the relevance of gaze for turn-taking
in conversation and throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s occasional studies
explored turn-taking in its natural, multimodal habitat (Argyle & Cook 1976,
Duncan & Fiske 1977, Goodwin 1980, 1981). Nonetheless, the purely verbal
outline of the turn-taking machinery (somewhat symptomatically referred to as
the speech exchange system) as it was proposed in the foundational paper by
Sachs, Schegloff & Jefferson (1974) has remained largely unquestioned until
very recently. The growing interest in the multimodal dynamics of the
turn-taking process has primarily concerned gaze behavior (Jokinen 2010;
Rossano 2012, 2013; Streeck 2014; Holler & Kendrick 2015; Oben 2015; Oben &
Brône 2015; Brône et al. forthcoming; Auer, under review) but selected studies
also demonstrate the need to take gesture and posture into account (Schmitt
2005; Mondada 2007, 2013; Deppermann 2013; Selting 2013). However, many issues
remain to be explored to uncover the rules that govern the multimodal
turn-taking machinery. This panel seeks to bring together researchers working
on issues of multimodal turn-taking from different theoretical perspectives
(most notably CA and cognitive multimodality research) with different
methodologies (video analysis and mobile eye tracking) and different empirical
focus (dyadic and multi-party interaction, experimental and natural settings,
and different activities such as e.g. storytelling versus discussing or
arguing). 

The panel seeks to address topics as diverse as:

- In which ways is the gaze behavior of dyadic interactions different from how
speakers use gaze to claim and allocate turns in multi-party interactions? 
- Do the rules that Goodwin (1980) has argued to govern gaze behavior in
dyadic interactions also apply to conversations of more than two participants?
- Does the use of unobtrusive eye-tracking technology produce novel insights
into the rules & dynamics of eye gaze behavior as part of turn-taking? 
- What role do hand and head gestures as well as proxemics play in the process
of turn-taking? And how do they relate to the above-mentioned gaze patterns? 
- Is the importance of gesture use affected by the number of participants of a
conversation, their spatial arrangement, their level of acquaintance, or the
activity they are engaged in?
- Is there a hierarchy of multimodal cues in turn-taking, such as e.g. mutual
gaze is obligatory to allocate a turn while deictic hand gesture or deictic
head nods are optional?

Call for Papers: 

Please contact elisabeth.zima at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de and/or
geert.brone at kuleuven.be for information about the panel or to submit an
abstract for review. Abstracts must be send to the panel organizers before
September 15, 2016. 

Note that all accepted abstracts must also be submitted officially to IPrA by
15 October 2016 via the conference website:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516

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