Crying: Notes on Description, Transcription, and Interaction

Affect and discourse – What’s the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice

“…She advocates a more direct focus on the engagement of bodies in social scenes as opposed to more dabbling in the endless sea of words. Blackman and Cromby (2007) are particularly critical of fine-grain research in discursive psychology and conversation analysis (Hepburn, 2004) which attempts, for example, to transcribe crying, turning sobs into marks and transcription symbols on the page. For Brown et al (2009, p. 202), '[t]he body and its sensed felt engagement with the world around it is rarely represented as such in discursive work in psychology.…”

Sighing in Interaction: Somatic, Semiotic, and Social

“…Specifically, in her careful examinations of laughter, another respiratory phenomenon, she demonstrated how participants' laughter is delicately orchestrated, jointly accomplished, and socially consequential in its achievement or absence (1974, 1979, 1985a, 2010Jefferson, Sacks, & Schegloff, 1987). Other analysts have since continued research on laughter (Edwards, 2005;Ford & Fox, 2010;Glenn, 2003;Glenn & Holt, 2013;Wagner & Vöge, 2010), and on other paralinguistic and nonlinguistic phenomena, such as in-breaths and gasps (Lerner & Linton, 2004), coughs (Bailey, 2008), gustatory mms (Wiggins, 2002), disgust particle eugh (Wiggins, 2012), moaning and whining (Edwards, 2005), crying (Hepburn, 2004;Hepburn & Potter, 2007), clicks (Ogden, 2013;Reber, 2012;Wright, 2007Wright, , 2011, and whistles (Reber, 2012). These studies Downloaded by [Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguistik] at 03:01 24 May 2014…”

Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child's bodily sensation

“…CA sets out to understand the elementary properties of social action (Schegloff 1992), in order to understand how talk is used to manage social relationships and construct, establish, reproduce and negotiate identities (Drew 2005) (For a more in-depth description of CA's analytic assumptions and method see Drew 2005, Heritage 1984, Schegloff 2007. The selected extracts were transcribed using the conventions developed by Gail Jefferson and supplemented by Hepburn in relation to distress and upset (Hepburn 2004, Jefferson 2004 (Table 2). The analysis in this article focuses on a collection of sequences in which children initiate an expression of bodily sensation, including pain.…”