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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction

AU - Cantarutti, Marina N.

N1 - © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Animation

KW - Non-lexical vocalisation

KW - Self-deprecation

KW - Shared experience

KW - Sounding for others

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138119988&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.08.002

DO - 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.08.002

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85138119988

SN - 0271-5309

VL - 87

SP - 205

EP - 220

JO - Language and Communication

JF - Language and Communication

ER -