This article introduces the special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction
organized around the theme “Opening and Maintaining Face-to-Face Interaction.” The …

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

Utterances give rise to many potential inferences. They can be communicated explicitly or
implicitly, they may or may not be intended, and they may or may not even be inferred. In this …

Cross-cultural studies of (im) politeness have tended to focus on identifying differences in
linguistic behaviour by which speech acts are delivered, which are then explained as …

It is well attested that teasing is a vehicle for criticising others which is prototypically
accomplished through diminishing, ridiculing or denigrating the target. In this paper, we …

Research into conversational humour has found its significant role across a wide range of
interactional settings, but to date, only a limited body of studies have investigated the use of …

This study examines the uses of interpersonal touch in everyday interaction. An examination
of everyday interactions among adult Mandarin Chinese speakers shows that sustained …

Meeting someone for the first time is one of the most basic interpersonal communication
events. Yet there have only been a limited number of studies that have examined variation in …

Across a range of widely cited articles and books, Michael Haugh has advanced insightful,
empirically grounded perspectives on implicature, intention, conversational interaction …

Serving as introduction to this Special Issue, this article presents a thematic review of topics
involved in studies on humour and belonging. It briefly elaborates on the intricacies of …