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Response cries have been described as ritualized acts in human communication that come off as visceral reactions to local events (Goffman, 1978). Despite evidence that they are implemented at specific interactional moments, such as pain expressions in response to doctor's elicitation (Heath 1989) or surprise tokens after news or stories (Wilkinson & Kitzinger 2006), research has yet to explore how they are organized in relation to syntax and incorporated into turn design. This study addresses this omission and targets the relationship between syntactic constructions and response cries. Based on data from a variety of contexts, such as family meals, sports training, and performance rehearsals, we demonstrate how response cries are produced in ways that reflexively elaborate co-occurring stance-taking constructions and embodied displays to make a syntactic whole. We argue that syntactic theories should include such structures in their scope, lest they fail to account for the way syntax emerges in response to interactional requirements.
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Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.