Stance-taking, the public act of positioning oneself toward objects, people or states of affairs,
has been studied in many fields of research. Recently, its multimodal realization in …

This study explores the use of hand points in competitive epistemic and speakership
environments in Mandarin-speaking conversation. It examines incoming speakers' points at …

This study explores the negotiation of locational epistemic access during initial reference
sequences through embodied mapping, a practice in which co-participants (re) construct …

This paper presents a geospatial framework for the documentation and analysis of naturally-
occurring locational points in interaction. This novel approach aims to provide a set of …

It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal
languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent …

Buginese is a local language in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, which is spoken in almost 60%
of Sulawesi Island. This study aimed to explore the selection of linguistic variations and …

Traces of many past events are often layered or superposed, in brain, body, and world alike.
This often poses challenges for individuals and groups, both in accessing specific past …

Public disharmony can easily arise in our social conversations, leading to quarrels, disputes,
and even conflicts, which can harm our society's stability and security. Encouraging …

How Emotions are Made in Talk, edited by Jessica Robles and Ann Weatherall, presents
cutting-edge contributions from conversation analysts on an understudied subject matter: the …

It can be difficult for external analysts without knowledge of the local environment to
understand what conversationalists are talking about when they point to locations outside …