Frohlich2017

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Frohlich2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Frohlich2017
Author(s) Marlen Frölich
Title Taking Turns Across Channels: Conversation-Analytic Tools in Animal Communication
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Comparative, Animal Communication, Language Origins, Turn-taking
Publisher
Year 2017
Language
City
Month
Journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Volume 80
Number
Pages 201-209
URL Link
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.005
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

To advance bridging the gulf between the fields of linguistics and animal communication, interest has recently been drawn to turn-taking behaviour in social interaction. While vocal turn-taking is the major form of conservational language usage in humans, recent studies on great apes has shown that they engage in a bodily form, gestural turn-taking, to achieve mutual communicative goals. However, most studies on turn-taking behaviour neglected the fact that signals are perceived and produced in a multimodal format. Here, I propose that research on animal communication could benefit from implementing a more holistic and dynamic approach: studying turn-taking using a multimodal and conservation-analytic paradigm. I will discuss recent research that operationalized this paradigm via a specific set of straightforward parameters. In sum, I argue that a conversation-analytic approach might help substantially to pinpoint how crucial components of language are embodied in the ‘human interaction engine’.

Notes