Tactile engagement of prospective next speakers in Indonesian multiparty conversations

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ID2909522
AuthorsJ Blythe (0000-0003-1281-9681, Macquarie University), Fakry Hamdani (0000-0003-4998-4509, Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University Bandung, corresponding author), Barne (0000-0001-5299-0550, Macquarie University)
Year2024
Volume53
Issue4
Pages671-705
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404523000441
OpenAlexW4384525833
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited49

This article investigates the use of touch as a tool for engaging prospective next speakers within Indonesian multiparty conversation. We examine the lamination of touch onto questions directed towards specifically targeted recipients. First, we find that questions with touch are deployed when the physical environment complicates the attainment of mutual orientation. Second, when previously targeted recipients have failed to respond to a question, touch is added to follow-up questions that are deployed for pursuing a response. Third, touch is added to questions that are personal or that inquire about potentially delicate matters. This multimodal investigation of conversational turn-taking provides data from Colloquial Indonesian as basis for cross-linguistic comparison. In considering the volume of touches in these data we ask whether cultural and environmental factors might contribute to a haptic modification of ordinary turn-taking procedures. (Turn-taking, touch, multimodality, sociotopography

Ask price · Business · Conversation · Indonesian · Linguistics · Multimodality · Sociology · Turn-taking · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology

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