New Special Issue Announcement: Opening and Maintaining Face-to-Face Interaction
Research on Language and Social Interaction, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2018
Guest Editor: Danielle Pillet-Shore
Though the opening phase of a face-to-face interaction elapses in a matter of seconds, it houses a dense universe of phenomena central to sustaining our human sense of self and our social relationships in everyday life.
This special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction is organized around the theme “Opening and Maintaining Face-to-Face Interaction.” The contributions to this special issue collectively consider “how to begin” – either a new encounter, or a new sequence after a lapse in conversation.
All articles analyze naturally-occurring, videorecorded episodes of casual and/or institutional copresent interaction using multimodal conversation analytic methods. Across the six original contributions, the authors analyze video data showing interactions between participants speaking Catalan, Estonian, Finland Swedish, Finnish, French, Italian, Swiss German, and UK and U.S. English. This special issue’s introductory article elucidates state-of-the-art findings from conversation analytic research on how people begin encounters, delineating the modular components that people regularly use to constitute the copresent opening phase of interaction. The contributions to this special issue collectively advance knowledge not only of how people open interaction but how they organize interaction, providing cumulative and interlocking findings upon which future research can build.
This special issue features articles authored by: Danielle Pillet-Shore; Elwys De Stefani & Lorenza Mondada; Katariina Harjunpää, Lorenza Mondada & Kimmo Svinhufvud; Mardi Kidwell; Lee