Affectivity in Interaction

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections ( oh , ooh and ah ) and paralinguistic signals ( whistle and clicks ), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactional activities including news telling, troubles talk