Affectivity in Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- General interest and scope of study -- Some remarks on methodology -- Outline of the analysis -- Part II. Background -- 1. Preliminaries: Affectivity and sound objects in an interactional linguistic perspective -- 1.1 Interactional Linguistics -- 1.2 Conversation Analysis -- 1.2.1 The turn-taking system -- 1.2.2 A participant's perspective -- 1.2.3 Conversation Analysis and affectivity. -- 1.3 Contextualisation Theory -- 1.4 Summary and conclusions -- 2 Approaching sound objects: Previous research on interjections, discourse markers and vocalisations -- 2.1 Interjections - what are they? -- 2.2 Vocalisations in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics -- 2.2.1 Foundational studies -- 2.2.2 Major findings and assumptions -- 2.2.3 Communicative "paralinguistic" sounds -- 2.3 Summary and conclusions -- 3. Approaching affectivity in talk-in-interaction I: Previous research on prosody -- 3.1 Preliminaries: Prosody-in-conversation -- 3.2 Prosody and affectivity in conversation -- 3.2.1 The non-affect phonetics approach -- 3.2.2 Prosody as a contextualisation device for affectivity -- 3.2.3 Summary and conclusions -- 4. Approaching affectivity in talk-in-interaction II: Previous research on conversational activities -- 4.1 Common findings and assumptions -- 4.2 Sequences and practices -- 4.2.1 Troubles talk -- 4.2.2 News delivery sequences -- 4.2.3 Complaint sequences -- 4.2.4 Assessments -- 4.2.5 Repair -- 4.3 Summary and conclusions -- Part III. An analysis of responsive affect-laden sound objects in talk-in-interaction -- 5. Affectivity and sound objects: An interactional linguistic perspective -- 5.1 Data and transcription -- 5.2 The methodological approach of the present study.

6. Affect-laden oh in repair sequences and news tellings -- 6.1 Previous accounts in the literature: Oh in English -- 6.1.1 English oh in dictionaries -- 6.1.2 English oh in interactional studies -- 6.2 'Surprise' in talk-in-interaction -- 6.3 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of 'extra high and pointed' oh -- 6.4 Affect-laden oh in response to repair -- 6.4.1 Oh as a repair receipt + turn expansion -- 6.4.2 Oh as a repair receipt + subsequent other-speaker talk -- 6.4.3 The rise-fall revisited: 'Surprise', a matter of degree -- 6.5 Affect-laden oh in response to news -- 6.5.1 Oh as a news response + turn expansion -- 6.5.2 Oh as a news response + subsequent other-speaker talk -- 6.6 Interactional pay-off of 'extra high and pointed' oh: Is 'surprise' a full-fledged emotion? -- 6.7 Summary and conclusions -- 7. Affect-laden oohs in radio phone-ins and in mundane complaint sequences/troubles talk -- 7.1 Previous accounts of ooh in dictionaries -- 7.2 Extreme and dramatic affect displays in talk-in-interaction -- 7.3 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ooh -- 7.4 'High and pointed' ooh + turn expansion as an affect-laden response to unqualified, positive ass -- 7.5 'Midrange' ooh + turn expansion in response to repair -- 7.6 Global sequential position of variants of ooh in radio phone-ins -- 7.7 Stand-alone ooh+ subsequent other-speaker talk in radio phone-ins -- 7.8 'High' ooh in response to highly detailed informings in mundane complaints and troubles telling -- 7.8.1 'High' ooh as a complaint receipt -- 7.8.2 'High' ooh as a troubles receipt -- 7.9 Ooh - a marker of extreme and dramatic affect? -- 7.10 Summary and conclusions -- 8. Types of affect-laden ahs in troubles talk and deliveries of bad news -- 8.1 Previous accounts in the literature: Ah in English -- 8.1.1 Ah in English dictionaries -- 8.1.2 English ah in empirical studies.

8.2 'Empathy, 'sympathy' and 'disappointment' in talk-in-interaction -- 8.3 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ah -- 8.3.1 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ah in troubles telling and in bad-news deliveries (with th -- 8.3.2 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ah in rejection contexts and in bad-news deliveries (with t -- 8.4 Affect-laden ah in response to troubles talk -- 8.4.1 Ah as a troubles receipt + turn expansion -- 8.4.2 Ah as a troubles receipt + subsequent other-speaker talk -- 8.4.3 Ah as a mock troubles receipt -- 8.4.4 Summary and conclusions -- 8.5 Affect-laden ah in response to deliveries of bad news (with the teller as the consequential figu -- 8.6 Excursus: Affect-laden ah in radio-talk rejection contexts and bad-news deliveries (with the re -- 8.6.1 Rejections of proposals in radio interaction -- 8.6.2 News delivery sequences in radio interaction -- 8.6.3 Summary and conclusions -- 8.7 The interactional pay-off of the variants of ah: Do they signal discrete emotions? -- 8.8 Summary and conclusions -- 9. More affect-laden sound objects -- 9.1 The affect-laden sound object click -- 9.1.1 Previous accounts of clicks in dictionaries, phonetic text books and talk-in-interaction. -- 9.1.2 'Moral indignation' and 'disapproval' in talk-in-interaction -- 9.1.3 Clicks in response to complaints -- 9.1.4 Summary and conclusions -- 9.2 The affect-laden sound object whistle -- 9.2.1 The sound object whistle in previous phonetic accounts -- 9.2.2 The sound object whistle in response to an informing with reference to a numerical figure -- 9.3 Summary and conclusions -- Part IV. Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Figures -- Tables -- Excerpts -- GAT-Transcription conventions (Selting et al. 1998, 2009, modified) -- Subject index -- Name index.