Blythe2024

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Blythe2024
BibType ARTICLE
Key Blythe2024
Author(s) Joe Blythe, Fakry Hamdani, Scott Barnes
Title Tactile engagement of prospective next speakers in Indonesian multiparty conversations
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Tag(s) EMCA, Turn-taking, Touch, Multimodality, Sociotopography
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Year 2024
Language English
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 53
Number 4
Pages 671–705
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404523000441
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Abstract

This article investigates the use of touch as a tool for engaging prospective next speakers within Indonesian multiparty conversation. We examine the lamination of touch onto questions directed towards specifically targeted recipients. First, we find that questions with touch are deployed when the physical environment complicates the attainment of mutual orientation. Second, when previously targeted recipients have failed to respond to a question, touch is added to follow-up questions that are deployed for pursuing a response. Third, touch is added to questions that are personal or that inquire about potentially delicate matters. This multimodal investigation of conversational turn-taking provides data from Colloquial Indonesian as basis for cross-linguistic comparison. In considering the volume of touches in these data we ask whether cultural and environmental factors might contribute to a haptic modification of ordinary turn-taking procedures.

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