Other-initiated repair in Yélî Dnye: Seeing eye-to-eye in the language of Rossel Island

Levinson, Stephen C.

doi:10.1515/opli-2015-0009

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“…Eyebrow flashes, too, can function as signals for grounding. In Yélî Dnye (a Papuan language isolate spoken on Rossel Island), eyebrow flashes are conventionalized, meaning ‘yes, continue’, or function as an affirmative response [ 128 , 129 ].…”

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“…Noteworthy is the frequent co-occurrence of blinks with nods [ 126 , 127 ], or blinks with eyebrow flashes [ 129 ], which may lead to an amplified communicative effect. Other facial signals may easily combine into more powerful grounding devices, too, such as shoulder shrugging with a cute face or rolling eyes [ 123 ].…”

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“…‘he did what?’), thus hinting at intricate connections between the precise form of eyebrow movement and the type of response desired [ 92 ]. In some cultures, eyebrow flashes are used to confirm a speaker's successful repair [ 129 ].…”

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Visual bodily signals as core devices for coordinating minds in interaction

Holler

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential and propositional meaning. The human communication system that we consider to be the explanandum in the evolution of language thus is not spoken language. It is, instead, a deeply multimodal, multilayered, multifunctional system that developed—and survived—owing to the extraordinary flexibility and adaptability that it endows us with. Beyond their undisputed iconic power, visual bodily signals (manual and head gestures, facial expressions, gaze, torso movements) fundamentally contribute to key pragmatic processes in modern human communication. This contribution becomes particularly evident with a focus that includes non-iconic manual signals, non-manual signals and signal combinations. Such a focus also needs to consider meaning encoded not just via iconic mappings, since kinematic modulations and interaction-bound meaning are additional properties equipping the body with striking pragmatic capacities. Some of these capacities, or its precursors, may have already been present in the last common ancestor we share with the great apes and may qualify as early versions of the components constituting the hypothesized interaction engine. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to social action coordination’.

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Holler

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Repair initiations can use multiple communicative modalities (see also Holler, this issue). Non-verbal other-initiations of repair can include a marked absence of response by recipients ['freeze-looks' in both spoken and signed languages, see [38][39][40][41], body movements [42], puzzled facial expressions [e.g., eye-widening, 43], head tilting [43], and gestures [e.g., cupping one's hand behind the ear 44]. The repair initiations' form and selection can thus be adapted to different kinds of communicative trouble, including matters of perceptual disruption and asymmetries in attention, knowledge, or understanding.…”

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Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair

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Fröhlich²,

Sievers³

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Human joint action is inherently cooperative, manifested in the collaborative efforts of participants to minimize communicative trouble through interactive repair. Although interactive repair requires sophisticated cognitive abilities, it can be dissected into basic building blocks shared with nonhuman animal species. A review of the primate literature shows that interactionally contingent signal sequences are at least common among species of nonhuman great apes, suggesting a gradual evolution of repair. To pioneer a cross-species assessment of repair this paper aims at (i) identifying necessary precursors of human interactive repair; (ii) proposing a coding framework for its comparative study in humans and nonhuman species; and (iii) using this framework to analyse examples of interactions of humans (adults/children) and nonhuman great apes. We hope this paper will serve as a primer for cross-species comparisons on dealing with communicative breakdowns.

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“…Repair initiations can use multiple communicative modalities (see also Holler [37]). Non-verbal other-initiations of repair can include a marked absence of response by recipients ('freeze-looks' in both spoken and signed languages, see [38][39][40][41]), body movements [42], puzzled facial expressions (e.g. eye-widening, [43]), head tilting [43] and gestures (e.g.…”

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Coordinating social action: a primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair

Heesen

Fröhlich

Sievers

et al. 2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Human joint action is inherently cooperative, manifested in the collaborative efforts of participants to minimize communicative trouble through interactive repair. Although interactive repair requires sophisticated cognitive abilities, it can be dissected into basic building blocks shared with non-human animal species. A review of the primate literature shows that interactionally contingent signal sequences are at least common among species of non-human great apes, suggesting a gradual evolution of repair. To pioneer a cross-species assessment of repair this paper aims at (i) identifying necessary precursors of human interactive repair; (ii) proposing a coding framework for its comparative study in humans and non-human species; and (iii) using this framework to analyse examples of interactions of humans (adults/children) and non-human great apes. We hope this paper will serve as a primer for cross-species comparisons of communicative breakdowns and how they are repaired. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to social action coordination’.

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Other-initiated repair in Yélî Dnye: Seeing eye-to-eye in the language of Rossel Island

Cited by 15 publications

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Visual bodily signals as core devices for coordinating minds in interaction

Visual bodily signals as core devices for coordinating minds in interaction

Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair

Coordinating social action: a primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair

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