Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually
happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it …

Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in
conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that …

Our understanding of touch as a basic and complex sense is informed by phenomenological
perspectives on our corporeal “being-in-the-world” and the notion of intercorporeality as well …

Joint commitment, the feeling of mutual obligation binding participants in a joint action, is
typically conceptualized as arising by the expression and acceptance of a promise. This …

Using multimodal conversation analysis this article examines embodied and tactile
greetings in social interaction, documenting their change during the Covid‐19 pandemic …

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in
communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships …

Many social animals interact jointly, but only humans experience a specific sense of
obligation toward their co-participants, a joint commitment. However, joint commitment is not …

Openings of interaction are critical for maintaining social relationships. We explore the
practices of managing openings in a situation where parents are separated from their …

The very first moments of co-presence, during which a robot appears to a participant for the
first time, are often “off-the-record” in the data collected from human-robot experiments …

This study explores how gaze visualization in virtual spaces facilitates the initiation of
informal communication. Three styles of gaze cue visualization (arrow, bubbles, and …