Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction

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ID4359364
AuthorsMarina Cantarutti (0000-0002-1490-3492, The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume87
Pages205-220
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage & Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0271-5309 • E-ISSN: 1873-3395
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.langcom.2022.08.002
OpenAlexW4295745577
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited50

Speaking on one's own behalf and asserting one's entitlement to assess oneself are regular features of interaction, but participants often sound for others through practices like responsive animation, through which they are seen to be temporarily "doing being" others in a responsive slot. In this paper we study a collection of responsive animations consisting primarily of non-lexical vocalisations with gestural ensembles produced in contexts where territorial rights are in tension. We focus on environments where a participant engages in self-deprecating disclosures around past or projected negative happenings that may be shared by a co-participant (albeit experienced independently) and who animates an aspect of these in response. We describe how co-participants sound for each other by deploying animations that instead of minimising deprecating components, actually amplify them through a transformed and creative vocal and/or visual demonstration of a jointly negotiated (shared) attribute or experience. These animations create brief moments of heightened involvement and other-attentiveness before transitioning to a new/next order of conversational business

Animation · Entitlement (fair division · Focus (optics · Human–computer interaction · Multimodality · Negotiation · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology

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