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 …

The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven
thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate …

Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this
article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place …

A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard
what someone just said–is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken …

In a conversation, recognising the speaker's social action (eg, a request) early may help the
potential following speakers understand the intended message quickly, and plan a timely …

Conversational repair is the process people use to detect and resolve problems of speaking,
hearing, and understanding. Through repair, participants in social interaction display how …

Interjections, the words that come between sentences, are easily overlooked and usually
treated as peripheral to the language sciences. This review surveys work from disparate …

This conversation analytical paper examines other-initiated repair sequences in everyday
interactions between first and second language speakers of Finnish. More specifically, it …

This article expands the study of other-initiated repair in conversation—when one party
signals a problem with producing or perceiving another's turn at talk—into the domain of …