This paper investigates the prosodic features that speakers use to compete for the turn when they talk simultaneously. Most previous research has focused on F0 and energy variation as resources for turn competition; here, we investigate the relevance of speech rate, pausing and the duration of in-overlap talk. These features are extracted from a set of overlaps drawn from the ICSI Meetings Corp...

following the collapse of the soviet :union: and the discovery of gas and oil in central asia and caucasia, it faced complex interests in the international political economy. these problems were mainly rooted in developing plans of the countries for increasing their influence in the area and also in russia's connections with the iranian and turkish governments in the region. this paper inv...

The understanding of language mechanisms needs to take into account very precisely the interaction between all the different domains or modalities, which implies the constitution and the development of resources. We describe here the CID (Corpus of Interactional Data), an audio-video corpus in French recorded and processed at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). The corpus has been annotate...

This paper illustrates the complexity of pointing as it is employed in a design workshop. Using the method of interaction analysis, we argue that pointing is not merely employed to index, locate or fix reference to an object, but also constitutes a practice for reestablishing intersubjectivity and solving interactional trouble such as misunderstandings or disagreements by virtue of enlisting so...

This paper develops an interactional approach to planning in organisations that draws out the relevance of both rationalist and contingent models of planning. The distinction between these two models is developed in the light of the modernist / postmodernist debate to provide a set of theoretical issues to with planning in organisations. These issues are explored in the context of planning carr...

Metadiscourse has been one of the most prolific areas research in field applied linguistics recent years. It is understood as way we use language to connect with our audience, which result integrating propositional content and interpersonal factors (Hyland, 2017). In this paper will analyse complex medical-legal genres: informed consent (IC). Drawing on a small comparable bilingual corpus texts...

This study examines casual interactions between first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of Japanese, paying special attention to the coordination of vocal and non-vocal resources that are brought to bear on the achievement of intersubjectivity. More specifically, this study investigates a practice of ‘embodied completion’ (Olsher 2004), namely the practice of deploying a partial t...