The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

Human communication displays a striking contrast between the diversity of languages and
the universality of the principles underlying their use in conversation. Despite the importance …

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to
the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the …

In this introduction to the special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction on
“Experimental and Laboratory Approaches to Conversation Analysis,” I make the case that …

Human social interaction is studied by researchers in conversation analysis (CA) and
psychology, but the dominant methodologies within these two disciplines are very different …

Quantitative studies applying conversation analysis to the study of the timing of answers to
sequence-initiating actions expose anomalies in terms of what is known about preference …

The human faculty to speak has evolved, so has been argued, for communicating with
others and for engaging in social interactions. Hence the human cognitive system should be …

This article reviews the prospects for the cross-fertilization of conversation analytic (CA) and
neurocognitive studies of conversation, focusing on turn taking. Although conversation is the …

In conversation, interlocutors rarely leave long gaps between turns, suggesting that next
speakers begin to plan their turns while listening to the previous speaker. The present …

Conversation is generally characterized by smooth transitions between turns, with only very
short gaps. This entails that responders often begin planning their response before the …