Human joint action is inherently cooperative, manifested in the collaborative efforts of
participants to minimize communicative trouble through interactive repair. Although …

This study examines the decision-making processes of military observer trainee teams as
they encounter a simulated,'life-threatening'incident during a car-patrolling exercise. The …

This study looks at the use of the Finnish response cry huh huh as a device to invite an
alignment and to assess joint physical experience. Response cries establish a speaker's …

This paper explores how police negotiators offer “help” to suicidal persons in crisis. The
phrase “a cry for help” is long associated with suicide ideation, and “help” is a key offer …

Repetition has often been argued to be a semiotic device that iconically signifies 'more
content', such as intensity and plurality. However, through multimodal interaction analysis of …

This paper explores the topic of children having restricted rights to engage in conversation
with adults in multiparty interactions. Drawing on the principles of conversation analysis, and …

This article uses conversation analysis to examine constructions like who the fuck is that—
sequence‐initiating actions into which an expletive like the fuck has been inserted. We …

When a person in crisis threatens suicide, police negotiators engage them in a conversation
to prevent death. Working in small teams, the primary negotiator's role is to talk directly to the …

This special issue grew out of a panel organized by Jack Bilmes and Matthew Prior for the
2017 International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) conference in Belfast. But the seeds of that …

The contributions to this special issue investigate rare, acute and hard-to-access interactions
in situations of crisis, conflict and emergency. They study low frequency but high stakes …