Response Cries

From Goffman1978: "Some roguish utterances that appear to violate [interactional] interdependence, entering the stream of behavior at peculiar and unnatural places, producing communicative effects but no dialog."

Response cries are not an inherently EM/CA device, and there is a wide literature that takes up Goffman's terms and develops it in related areas of interaction studies e.g.:

• http://ideophone.org/ideophones-are-not-response-cries/
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03782166/18/2

However, many EM/CA studies develop Goffman's concept in terms of sequential analysis. Here is a growing bibliography of the papers in the EMCA wiki tagged with the 'response cries' keyword: