Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
2005 (AVSP’05)
British Columbia, Canada
July 24-27, 2005
ISCA Archive
http://www.isca-speech.org/archive
APPRECIATING FACE-TO-FACE DIALOGUE
Janet Beavin Bavelas
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada
ABSTRACT
Many scholars agree that face-to-face dialogue is the basic format of language use. Our program of research
focuses on two unique dimensions of face-to-face dialogue: (i) communicative use of hand gestures, facial
displays, and eye gaze and (ii) reciprocity and mutual influence between the participants. These two features
often work together in ways that require new theories and research methods. Results of our research will be
illustrated through microanalysis of a brief videotaped interaction that demonstrates the complexity and
precision of even ordinary face-to-face dialogues.
SELECTED REFERENCEs
[1]. Bavelas, J. B., & Chovil, N. (1997). Faces in dialogue. In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Ed.), The psychology of
facial expression (pp. 334-346). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press
[2]. Bavelas, J. B. (2000). Nonverbal aspects of fluency. In H. Riggenbach (Ed.), Perspectives on fluency (pp. 91-101).Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press,
[3]. Bavelas, J. B., & Chovil, N. (2000). Visible acts of meaning. An integrated message model of language use in face-to-face
dialogue. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 19, 163-194.
[4]. Bavelas, J. B., Coates, L., & Johnson, T. (2000). Listeners as co-narrators. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79,
941-952.
[5]. Bavelas, J. B., Coates, L., & Johnson, T. (2002). Listener responses as a collaborative process: The role of gaze. Journal of
Communication, 52, 566-580.
[6]. Bavelas, J. B., Kenwood, C., Johnson, T., & Phillips, B. (2002). An experimental study of when and how speakers use
gestures to communicate. Gesture, 2, 1-17..
[7]. Gerwing, J., & Bavelas, J.B. (2004). Linguistic influences on gesture’s form. Gesture, 4, 157-195.
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