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Publication details [#57439]

Peräkylä, Anssi, Johanna Ruusuvuori and Timo Kaukomaa. 2013. Turn-opening smiles: Facial expression constructing emotional transition in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 55 (1) : 21–42.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | emotional deixis | expressibility | face-to-face interaction | turn-taking

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that turn-opening smiles during a silence between utterances, commence a shift from a neutral or earnest to a positive or witty emotional stance, and that, when smiles are reciprocated, the recipients share the emotional transition.