Shaping Responsive Actions: Challenging Categories of Analysis

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel brings together researchers at the intersection of linguistics, CA, and communication studies, focusing on interactional motivations for the shaping of responsive actions. The data show that a broad array of forms of response, from highly elaborated to remarkably brief, are drawn upon to achieve the varied interactional tasks that participants engage in as they form next actions. Furthermore, apparently non-syntactic communicative phenomena such as laughter or laughter-infused-speech can play a role in responsive behavior.

Sub Unit

• Language and Social Interaction Division

Presenters

• Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, University of Potsdam

• Cecilia Ford, University of Wisconsin

• Kobin Kendrick, University of California, Santa Barbara

Session Organizer

• Katherine Karsnak, National Communication Association