Keevallik2020a

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Keevallik2020a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Keevallik2020a
Author(s) Leelo Keevallik, Richard Ogden
Title Sounds on the Margins of Language at the Heart of Interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Non-lexical token, liminal, Response Cries, Nonlexical vocalization, Estonian
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Year 2020
Language English
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Journal Research on Language & Social Interaction
Volume 53
Number 1
Pages 1-18
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2020.1712961
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Abstract

What do people do with sniffs, lip-smacks, grunts, moans, sighs, whistles, and clicks, where these are not part of their language’s phonetic inventory? They use them, we shall show, as irreplaceable elements in performing all kinds of actions—from managing the structural flow of interaction to indexing states of mind and much more besides. In this introductory essay we outline the phonetic and embodied interactional underpinnings of language and argue that greater attention should be paid to its nonlexical elements. Data are in English and Estonian.

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