Sounds on the margins of language, at the heart of interaction

Leelo Keevallik; Richard Ogden

doi:10.1080/08351813.2020.1712961

Sounds on the margins of language, at the heart of interaction

Leelo Keevallik, Richard Ogden

Language and Linguistic Science

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Abstract

What do people do with sniffs, lip-smacks, grunts, moans, sighs, whistles and clicks, where these are not part of their language's phonetic inventory? They use them, we shall show, as irreplaceable elements in performing all kinds of actions - from managing the structural flow of interaction to indexing states of mind, and much more besides. In this introductory essay we outline the phonetic and embodied interactional underpinnings of language, and argue that greater attention should be paid to its non-lexical elements. Data in English and Estonian.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-19
Number of pages	19
Journal	Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume	53
Issue number	1
Early online date	5 Mar 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1712961
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 5 Mar 2020

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Richard Ogden (Speaker)
14 Jul 2018
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Leelo Keevallik (Chair) & Richard Ogden (Chair)
14 Jul 2018
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Sounds on the margins of language, at the heart of interaction

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