The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

Most language usage is interactive, involving rapid turn-taking. The turn-taking system has a
number of striking properties: turns are short and responses are remarkably rapid, but turns …

The core niche for language use is in verbal interaction, involving the rapid exchange of
turns at talking. This paper reviews the extensive literature about this system, adding new …

The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

The home of human language use is face-to-face interaction, a context in which
communicative exchanges are characterised not only by bodily signals accompanying what …

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to
the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the …

In a conversation, recognising the speaker's social action (eg, a request) early may help the
potential following speakers understand the intended message quickly, and plan a timely …

It is now widely accepted that the brunt of animal communication is conducted via several
modalities, eg acoustic and visual, either simultaneously or sequentially. This is a laudable …

What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that
makes us human? If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species …

The first comprehensive textbook on regression modeling for linguistic data offers an incisive
conceptual overview along with worked examples that teach practical skills for realistic data …