Prosody in Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- The contributions to this volume -- The event inspiring this volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Prosody in interaction -- Introduction and overview -- 1. What is prosody? -- 2. Why should scholars and students concerned with the analysis of conversation or interaction study prosody? -- 2.1 The construction of units -- 2.2 The construction of multi-unit turns -- 2.3 The organization of turn-taking -- 2.4 The construction of actions -- 2.5 The contextualization of genres (kommunikative Gattungen), modalities, styles, emotive involvement etc. -- 3 Why should phoneticians and phonologists study the forms and uses and/or functions of prosody in interaction? -- 3.1 New technological possibilities allow new methodologies in research on prosody -- 3.2 Limitations of some other approaches' preference of more idealized data -- 3.3 Some advantages of starting from natural data in the first place -- 4. Who studies prosody in interaction currently in what way? -- 4.1 Approaches -- 4.2 Methodological principles -- 5. What are our current research questions and our future tasks in research on prosody? -- 5.1 Prosody in the organization of natural interaction -- 5.2 Prosody and grammar/syntax in conversation -- 5.3 Prosody and semantics: Signaling of information structure -- 5.4 Prosody and language variation/language comparison/typology -- 5.5 Prosody in conversation with specific kinds of participants -- 5.6 Prosody and the contextualization of affect -- 5.7 Prosody and the multimodality of interaction -- 6. What are the challenges of research in prosody and interaction that we still need to come to terms with? -- 6.1 General problems -- 6.2 Specific open questions -- 7. Conclusions.

References -- Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora -- 1. Publicly available corpora: Pros and cons -- 2. Criteria for the design of publicly available corpora -- 3. The adequate level of detail of transcription in publicly available corpora -- References -- Part I. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction -- The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetic analysis -- 2.1 Duration -- 2.2 Juncture -- 2.3 Pitch -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. Sequential organisation -- 4. Summary and implications -- References -- Appendix: Transcription conventions -- Rush-throughs as social action -- 1. Rush-throughs as a "kind of bridging between TCUs" -- 2. Convergences of phonetic and conversation-analytic work: Gareth Walker's promising analysis -- 3. Phonetics and beyond: Rush-throughs as social actions -- References -- Prosodic constructions in making complaints -- 1. Constructing turns at talk -- 2. Complaining and complaints -- 2.1 Data -- 3. Overview of A-complaints -- 4. Analysis of data fragments -- 4.1 A-Complaints which get affiliative responses -- 4.2 Reformulation of the complaint after a non-affiliative response -- 4.3 The recipient exits the sequence in place of affiliating -- 5. A second complaint construction: Overview of X-complaints -- 6. Repair in A-complaints -- 7. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: Transcription conventions -- References -- The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint -- Introduction -- 1. Complaints and their receipt -- 2. Reformulating and repairing a complaint -- 3. Performing complaints -- 4. Complaint and construction grammar -- References -- Prosodic variation in responses -- 1. Prosody as a sequentially sensitive resource for action formation: The case of yes and no as responses.

2. YNIs, type-conforming responses and the "structure of responding" -- 2.1 Type-conforming vs. nonconforming responses -- 2.2 Unmarked type-conforming responses -- 3. Prosodic variations in the delivery of type-conforming tokens -- 3.1 Prosody and turn taking: Variations in prosody can project more talk -- 3.2 Prosody in Action: Using prosody to shape sequential trajectories -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Position 1 - Retrievals -- 3. Position 2 - Redoings -- 4. Position 3 - Resuscitations -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Marked" and "unmarked" confirmation forms -- 3. Doing confirmation with an eye on the encompassing activity -- 3.1 Type 1: Casting confirmation as fashioned for the larger course of action -- 3.2 Type 2: Confirming questions implementing requests -- 3.3 Type 3: Doing alignment without affiliation -- 4. Prosodic characteristics of ja/nee hoor -- 4.1 Type 1 and 2 uses of ja/nee hoor -- 4.2 Type 3 uses of ja/nee hoor -- 5. Summary and discussion -- References -- Appendix. Main transcription conventions -- Sequential relations -- Pitch movement -- Other sound production features -- Part II. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction -- Intonation phrases in natural conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The intonation phrase: An introduction -- 3. Participant orientation to intonation phrases -- 3.1 Orientation to speech chunks by currently speaking participants -- 3.2 Orientation to speech chunks by next participants -- 3.3 Speech chunks as trouble sources -- 3.4 Chunks, turns and TCUs -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Making units -- 1. Strange chunks? -- 2. Open and closed units -- 3. Whither chunking -- References.

Speaking dramatically -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Previous linguistic studies of radio sports commentaries -- 3.1 Verbal actions and their linguistic features in live commentaries of football matches -- 3.2 The prosody of horse race commentaries -- 3.3 Summary: Current state of research on prosodic characteristics of live radio commentaries -- 4. Data and methods of analysis -- 5. The linguistic construction of drama and suspense: speaking dramatically -- 5.1 Elaborations vs. descriptions: First observations -- 5.2 Dramatic descriptions (1): Building up suspense -- 5.3 Dramatic descriptions (2): The presentation of a climax -- 5.4 Elaborations: Summarizing and evaluating -- 5.5 Transition between "summarizing" and "speaking dramatically" -- 6. Conclusion: Unit production in dramatic speech style -- References -- Commentating fictive and real sports -- References -- Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Tone: Form and function -- 1.2 Tone in child language development -- 2. Method -- 3. Accentuation and tone -- 4. What is tonal repetition? -- 5. Tonal repetition following other-initiated other-repair -- 6. Tonal repetition in other-initiated self-repair -- 7. Tonal contrast to initiate repair -- 8. Tonal contrast and development of topic -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Repetition and contrast across action sequences -- 1. Repetition and contrast of other phonetic parameters -- 2. Differentiating 'repetitions' in adult's talk -- 3. Tone and "meaning" -- References -- Part III. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction -- Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Research context -- 1.2 Data -- 1.3 Previous research on fear -- 1.4 Method -- 2. Analysis.

2.1 The first sequence: Narrative reconstruction of a seizure episode ("running-out-of-the-house") -- 2.2 The second sequence: Fear of death as a central topic -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix I: Transcript notations (GAT basic transcript) -- Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research on affectivity in story-telling -- 3. The prosodic make-up of the running-out-of-the-house episodes -- 3.1 Excerpts 1 and 2 -- 3.2 Excerpts 3 and 4 -- 4 Discussion -- References -- Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief summary of the six response particles -- 3. Brief summary of the prosodic patterns of Huun -- 4. Huun for showing involvement while avoiding topical talk, leading to 'topic attrition' -- 5. Additional prosodic properties of the first three instances of Huun -- 6 Concluding comments -- Appendix -- Transcription conventions: -- Special symbols used in the transcripts: -- Abbreviations in the interlinear gloss: -- The entire excerpt: -- References -- Response tokens - A multimodal approach -- 1. Distinguishing response tokens - multimodal evidence -- 2. Additional visual cues -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Multiple practices for constructing laughables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An initial look at multiple practices -- 3. Data and method -- 4. Sounds, bodily/visual practices, and sequential patterns for co-constructing laughables -- 4.1 Sound features -- 4.2 Bodily/visual displays -- 4.3 Action sequential patterns -- 4.4 Looking to an integrated analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Transcription conventions -- Multimodal laughing -- 1. What is "a laughable"? -- 2. Desiderata for further research -- References -- Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia.

1. Introduction.