We are having two data sessions.
For this data session, I would like to analyze fragments of infants crying, and attempt to determine if caregivers' intervention in the crying stream is in any way ordered (non-random), by examining the data and asking the followng questions, (for different activities, feeding, playing, changing clothing, etc, 'At what point(s) in an infant's crying stream does a caregiver act-on the infant? During an infant's inbreath? At the peak/trough of crying volume? If some type of order is found, the results could speak to infant/caregiver interaction order as being at least partially biological (as opposed to normative), ie oriented to infants' biological needs and capacties (the need to breathe, the need to cry to request food, the need to cry to express pain, etc).
By examining press conference data and ordinary conversations in Japanese, this data session examines how the turn initial stretched eh token is used to display the speaker's orientation to working towards the conditionally relevant action. It will be shown that with this token a response does not break the contiguity with the first action but communicates that the relevant action is on its way.
If anybody is interested in bringing their own data, analyses, observations, arguments, or whatever, to a next meeting to discuss together, please contact Aug Nishizaka at augnish(a)soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp.