Christoph Rühlemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1123660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Rühlemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Rühlemann |
| SIGNATURE | RÜHLEMANN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7464-1984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Speech planning depends on next-speaker selection: Evidence from pupillometry in question–answer sequences in naturalistic triadic conversation
Next-speaker selection, which controls who should speak next, is fundamental to turn taking. While it is central in Conversation Analysis, little is known about its cognitive repercussions. We draw on turn-taking and pupillometric data in triadic interaction, investigating open-floor questions, which license more than one participant to respond, and closed-floor questions, which license only a single participant to answer. Comparing pupil size ch…
Gaze alternation predicts inclusive next-speaker selection: Evidence from eyetracking
Next-speaker selection refers to the practices conversationalists rely on to designate who should speak next. Speakers have various methods available to them to select a next speaker. Certain actions, however, systematically co-select more than one particular participant to respond. These actions include asking “open-floor” questions, which are addressed to more than one recipient and that more than one recipient are eligible to answer. Here, nex…
Reaching beneath the tip of the iceberg: A guide to the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus
Most corpora tacitly subscribe to a speech-only view filtering out anything that is not a ‘word’ and transcribing the spoken language merely orthographically despite the fact that the “speech-only view on language is fundamentally incomplete” (Kok 2017, 2) due to the deep intertwining of the verbal, vocal, and kinesic modalities (Levinson and Holler 2014). This article introduces the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus (FreMIC), a multimodal a…
The Bias Toward Single-Unit Turns in Conversation
Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson argued that the rules for turn taking for conversation involve a confluence of pressures that bias turn size toward single turn constructional units (TCUs), which leads to an empirical prediction that turns are more likely to be composed of single (vs. multiple) TCUs. We directly test and confirm this “single-TCU bias” by using conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and Bayesian statistics to assess the convers…
How do speakers and hearers disambiguate multi-functional words: The case of well
Well is an exemplary multi-functional word performing pragmatic and syntactic functions. That multi-functionality poses a potential problem: How do hearers in conversation determine which function is actualized and how do speakers project the function actualized? We address both questions examining factors hearers rely on to disambiguate well and the resources speakers deploy to designate well ’s function. The study is based on 8-, 9-, and 10-wor…
Which word gets the nuclear stress in a turn-at-talk
Turn structure and inserts
Turns-at-talk often do not start with their main business but rather with a pre-start ( Sacks et al., 1974 ). This paper investigates the correlation of pre-starts with inserts, one of three major word classes ( Biber et al., 1999 ). Based on the BNC’s mark-up, I investigate how inserts are positionally distributed in large amounts of turns of varied lengths. The analysis shows that inserts are overwhelmingly attracted to turn-first positions, th…
Speakers advance-project turn completion by slowing down: A multifactorial corpus analysis
Alternating gaze in multi-party storytelling
TCU-initial backchannel overlap in storytelling
While overlap represents one of the major mainstays of conversation-analytic research, the phenomenon of overlap involving backchannels in TCU-initial position has largely gone unnoticed. This study addresses this gap focusing on backchannels occurring in overlap in storytelling interaction. The investigation combines both quantitative and qualitative methods and is based on small but representative samples drawn from the audio files available fo…
Colloquialization in journalistic writing: The case of inserts with a focus on well
Recent analyses of written text types have discovered significant frequency increases of colloquial or conversational elements, such as contractions, personal pronouns, questions or the progressive. This trend is often referred to as colloquialization. This paper presents a new perspective on colloquialization, with a special focus on the discourse marker well . The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we present new evidence of co…
Turn order and turn distribution in multi-party storytelling
Conversational Grammar
Computerized corpora have facilitated descriptions of the grammar of conversation in unprecedented detail in recent decades.
Windows on the mind: Pauses in conversational narrative
This paper investigates four different types of pauses in conversational narrative: the filled pauses er and erm , and short and long silent pauses. The study is based on the Narrative Corpus (NC), a recently created corpus of everyday narratives. The texts, which include both the narrative and some context, have been annotated for important textual components. The current analysis reveals that pauses are more frequent in conversational narrative…
A Register Approach to Teaching Conversation: Farewell to Standard English?
Journal Article A Register Approach to Teaching Conversation: Farewell to Standard English? Get access Christoph Rühlemann Christoph Rühlemann Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 672–693, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amn023 Published: 21 June 2008
Coming to terms with conversational grammar: ‘Dislocation’ and ‘dysfluency’
“situationally defined varieties” (Biber et al. 1999:5) have advanced the study of conversational grammar considerably. This paper questions the use of writing-based conceptual frameworks and terminologies in the description of conversational grammar. It is argued that conversation as the major situationally defined variety of the spoken language requires for its adequate description concepts and terminologies that are based on the situational fa…
Turn order and turn distribution in multi-party storytelling
Colloquialization in journalistic writing: The case of inserts with a focus on well
Recent analyses of written text types have discovered significant frequency increases of colloquial or conversational elements, such as contractions, personal pronouns, questions or the progressive. This trend is often referred to as colloquialization. This paper presents a new perspective on colloquialization, with a special focus on the discourse marker well . The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we present new evidence of co…
Speakers advance-project turn completion by slowing down: A multifactorial corpus analysis
Alternating gaze in multi-party storytelling
Coming to terms with conversational grammar: ‘Dislocation’ and ‘dysfluency’
“situationally defined varieties” (Biber et al. 1999:5) have advanced the study of conversational grammar considerably. This paper questions the use of writing-based conceptual frameworks and terminologies in the description of conversational grammar. It is argued that conversation as the major situationally defined variety of the spoken language requires for its adequate description concepts and terminologies that are based on the situational fa…
The Bias Toward Single-Unit Turns in Conversation
Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson argued that the rules for turn taking for conversation involve a confluence of pressures that bias turn size toward single turn constructional units (TCUs), which leads to an empirical prediction that turns are more likely to be composed of single (vs. multiple) TCUs. We directly test and confirm this “single-TCU bias” by using conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and Bayesian statistics to assess the convers…
Turn structure and inserts
Turns-at-talk often do not start with their main business but rather with a pre-start ( Sacks et al., 1974 ). This paper investigates the correlation of pre-starts with inserts, one of three major word classes ( Biber et al., 1999 ). Based on the BNC’s mark-up, I investigate how inserts are positionally distributed in large amounts of turns of varied lengths. The analysis shows that inserts are overwhelmingly attracted to turn-first positions, th…
Windows on the mind: Pauses in conversational narrative
This paper investigates four different types of pauses in conversational narrative: the filled pauses er and erm , and short and long silent pauses. The study is based on the Narrative Corpus (NC), a recently created corpus of everyday narratives. The texts, which include both the narrative and some context, have been annotated for important textual components. The current analysis reveals that pauses are more frequent in conversational narrative…
Coming to terms with conversational grammar: ‘Dislocation’ and ‘dysfluency’
“situationally defined varieties” (Biber et al. 1999:5) have advanced the study of conversational grammar considerably. This paper questions the use of writing-based conceptual frameworks and terminologies in the description of conversational grammar. It is argued that conversation as the major situationally defined variety of the spoken language requires for its adequate description concepts and terminologies that are based on the situational fa…
A Register Approach to Teaching Conversation: Farewell to Standard English?
Journal Article A Register Approach to Teaching Conversation: Farewell to Standard English? Get access Christoph Rühlemann Christoph Rühlemann Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 672–693, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amn023 Published: 21 June 2008
Windows on the mind: Pauses in conversational narrative
This paper investigates four different types of pauses in conversational narrative: the filled pauses er and erm , and short and long silent pauses. The study is based on the Narrative Corpus (NC), a recently created corpus of everyday narratives. The texts, which include both the narrative and some context, have been annotated for important textual components. The current analysis reveals that pauses are more frequent in conversational narrative…
Conversational Grammar
Computerized corpora have facilitated descriptions of the grammar of conversation in unprecedented detail in recent decades.
Turn order and turn distribution in multi-party storytelling
Colloquialization in journalistic writing: The case of inserts with a focus on well
Recent analyses of written text types have discovered significant frequency increases of colloquial or conversational elements, such as contractions, personal pronouns, questions or the progressive. This trend is often referred to as colloquialization. This paper presents a new perspective on colloquialization, with a special focus on the discourse marker well . The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we present new evidence of co…
TCU-initial backchannel overlap in storytelling
While overlap represents one of the major mainstays of conversation-analytic research, the phenomenon of overlap involving backchannels in TCU-initial position has largely gone unnoticed. This study addresses this gap focusing on backchannels occurring in overlap in storytelling interaction. The investigation combines both quantitative and qualitative methods and is based on small but representative samples drawn from the audio files available fo…
Alternating gaze in multi-party storytelling
Turn structure and inserts
Turns-at-talk often do not start with their main business but rather with a pre-start ( Sacks et al., 1974 ). This paper investigates the correlation of pre-starts with inserts, one of three major word classes ( Biber et al., 1999 ). Based on the BNC’s mark-up, I investigate how inserts are positionally distributed in large amounts of turns of varied lengths. The analysis shows that inserts are overwhelmingly attracted to turn-first positions, th…
Speakers advance-project turn completion by slowing down: A multifactorial corpus analysis
How do speakers and hearers disambiguate multi-functional words: The case of well
Well is an exemplary multi-functional word performing pragmatic and syntactic functions. That multi-functionality poses a potential problem: How do hearers in conversation determine which function is actualized and how do speakers project the function actualized? We address both questions examining factors hearers rely on to disambiguate well and the resources speakers deploy to designate well ’s function. The study is based on 8-, 9-, and 10-wor…
Which word gets the nuclear stress in a turn-at-talk
The Bias Toward Single-Unit Turns in Conversation
Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson argued that the rules for turn taking for conversation involve a confluence of pressures that bias turn size toward single turn constructional units (TCUs), which leads to an empirical prediction that turns are more likely to be composed of single (vs. multiple) TCUs. We directly test and confirm this “single-TCU bias” by using conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and Bayesian statistics to assess the convers…
Reaching beneath the tip of the iceberg: A guide to the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus
Most corpora tacitly subscribe to a speech-only view filtering out anything that is not a ‘word’ and transcribing the spoken language merely orthographically despite the fact that the “speech-only view on language is fundamentally incomplete” (Kok 2017, 2) due to the deep intertwining of the verbal, vocal, and kinesic modalities (Levinson and Holler 2014). This article introduces the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus (FreMIC), a multimodal a…
Gaze alternation predicts inclusive next-speaker selection: Evidence from eyetracking
Next-speaker selection refers to the practices conversationalists rely on to designate who should speak next. Speakers have various methods available to them to select a next speaker. Certain actions, however, systematically co-select more than one particular participant to respond. These actions include asking “open-floor” questions, which are addressed to more than one recipient and that more than one recipient are eligible to answer. Here, nex…
Speech planning depends on next-speaker selection: Evidence from pupillometry in question–answer sequences in naturalistic triadic conversation
Next-speaker selection, which controls who should speak next, is fundamental to turn taking. While it is central in Conversation Analysis, little is known about its cognitive repercussions. We draw on turn-taking and pupillometric data in triadic interaction, investigating open-floor questions, which license more than one participant to respond, and closed-floor questions, which license only a single participant to answer. Comparing pupil size ch…
Linguistics (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Conversation (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Communication (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works)