Listing Practice in French Conversation: From Collaborative Achievement to Interactional Convergence

Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation*

when encountering “unexpectedness” (Reizenzein 2000) or “expectancy violations” (Scherer, Zentner, and Stern 2004)—is commonly regarded as a fundamental human emotion (Ortony and Turner 1990; Strongman 2003). Like other “basic” or “primary” emotions—happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust—it is typically inferred from characteristic facial expressions, bodily postures, and vocalizations (T...

Learner Articulation as Interactional Achievement: Studying the Conversation of Gesture

Interactional complexity development, interactional demonstrators and interaction density in collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities

This study aimed at investigating the potential of collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities in developing interactional complexity, utilization of interactional demonstrators and density of interaction. To this end, 66 Iranian intermediate female English as foreign language learners (EFL) were selected to participate in this study according to their scores on Oxford Placement Test (...

Summary: Addressing the Interactional Challenges of Moving Collaborative Adaptive Management From Theory to Practice

Translating the attractive concept of collaborative adaptive management (CAM) into practice has proven very difficult. The papers included in this Special Feature explore why this is true and suggest how the challenges might be addressed. This summary highlights common themes, major challenges, and implications for research and practice. Many of the included papers emphasize the central importa...

Extracting Social Meaning: Identifying Interactional Style in Spoken Conversation

Automatically extracting social meaning and intention from spoken dialogue is an important task for dialogue and information extraction applications. We describe a system for solving the new task of detecting elements of interactional style: whether a speaker is awkward, friendly, or flirtatious. We create and use a new spoken corpus of approximately 1000 4-minute speed-dates. Participants rate...