Marina Cantarutti

Research

Research

Marina works on Multimodal and Interactional Linguistics, using the methods of conversation analysis, gesture studies, and the phonetics of talk-in-interaction for the study of video-recorded data in everyday interaction in English(es) and Spanish(es). She is particularly interested in collaborative and polyphonic practices in interaction, including anticipatory completions, choral productions, co-animation (i.e. joint enactments), and interjections. She also studies delicate social activities in conversation, such as gossip and self- and other-deprecation. She focuses on the alignment of vocal and non-vocal behaviour (grammar, lexis, gesture, prosody) in these productions within different turns and sequences. 

Projects

• Co-animation in English interaction, i.e. the joint voicing or re-enactment of the same figure in adjacent sequential positions. I have studied the sequential and multimodal design of these practices and their social consequences. (2016-2022)
• Responsive Animations: selective B-initiated (re)enactments of A’s prior descriptions/assessments in responsive position, involving gesture and non-lexical vocalisations as well as turns with fully lexico-grammatical formulations. (2018-ongoing)
• The sequential, prosodic and gestural design of expletives and interjections in interaction. Analysis of the features that make certain expletives and interjections “hearable” as such, in English and Spanish. (2021-ongoing)
• The Unsaid and the Unsayable in Interaction. A multimodal interactional linguistic approach to disclaimers, presuppositions, and (in)discretion in English(es) and Spanish(es). (2022-ongoing)

Collaborations

With Beatrice Szczepek-Reed: glottalisation and vowel linking across TCUs in English.

With Prof. Rosina Márquez Reiter (PI):

• Service encounters in intercultural contexts: the case of the Mostenses market and the “Latin American triangle”. Exploring the interactional functions of speech particle “vale” in a restaurant setting. (collaborator, 2020)
• Construction of morality in public interaction spaces in a pandemic. Studies of public morality around Covid-19 social distancing amd mask-wearing guidelines in the UK. Multi-data project. (co-investigator, 2020-oingoing)
• Ambulant sales in the Global South. Studying ambulant selling in Buenos Aires, Argentina (collaborator, 2021-ongoing)
• With Prof. Lucía Rivas: Prosodic configurations of speech genres from a DI and SFL perspective. Description of systematic organisational and prosodic patterns in narrative and instructional discourse. (2012-2016)

External activity

External activity

Membership

• International Phonetic Association (IPA)
• International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA)
• CORE-ILCA (Community of Early-Career Researchers in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics

Volunteering

• Member of the Publications Committee (ISCA, 2022-ongoing)
• Website committee CORE-ILCA (2021)
• Coordinator of PronSIG (Open University, 2020-2022)
• Co-founder and coordinator of Remote Data Sessions project (ISCA, 2017-2020)
• Coordinator of the study group on phonetics of talk-in-interaction for CORE-ILCA (Spring 2021)

Invited talks

• Invited speaker for plenary panel: Publishing EMCA Research. Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis. October 2022.
• One URL, one site to curate it all: Academic websites. Workshop as part of the Development Workshop series “All eyes online: curating an academic digital presence” organised by Gonzalo Andrade and Hannah King for the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). November 2021.
• The Multimodal Design of Co-Animation in English Interaction. Presentation at the Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops in Multimodality June 2021.
• Phonetics as a resource for solving participant problems in interaction: Evidence from collaborative productions in English. Invited presentation at UCL Language and Cognition seminar. May 2021.
• A multimodal approach to the study of phonetics as a resource for managing participant problems in interaction: Opportunities and challenges. Invited presentation for the Aarhus SLS group. April 2021.
• Aportes del análisis conversacional al estudio de las prácticas colaborativas en la interacción social. Open lecture at the Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Austral de Chile. Organised by Dr. Katherina Walper G. for the postgraduate module “Análisis Conversacional Multimodal”. October, 2020.
• Co-animation and association in English interaction: jointly ‘doing being’ others to interactionally define joint Selves. Open presentation at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication. University of York. October 2020.