KOBIN H. KENDRICK

Multimodal conversation analysis investigates how people coordinate social interaction through diverse semiotic resources, including language, gesture, gaze, and other visible bodily actions. My research in this area explores fundamental mechanisms of social organization, cooperation, and altruism as they occur naturally in everyday interactions. Central themes include how assistance is elicited and provided across contexts, how gestures and gaze contribute to turn-taking and social affiliation/disaffiliation, and the universal principles that underpin interaction across languages and cultures. My research is firmly grounded in conversation analysis yet also integrates quantitative, experimental, and comparative methods. A complete list of my publications follows.

In press

Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. Addressee points in conflictual interactions: A reductionist analysis of action. Research on Language and Social Interaction.

2025

Neyra, R., Kendrick, K. H., & Toerien, M. (2025). How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment. Journal of Pragmatics, 245, 50–64. [site] [pdf]  

Kendrick, K. H. Recruitment. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott M. Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). https://emcawiki.net/Recruitment  

2024

Kendrick, K. H., & Holler, J. (2024). Conversation. In M. C. Frank & A. Majid (Eds.), Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537  

Kendrick, K. H. (2024). System-oriented analysis: Moving from singular practices to organizations of practice. In J. D. Robinson, R. Clift, K. H. Kendrick, & C. W. Raymond (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., Clift, R., Raymond, C. W., & Robinson, J. D. (2024). Opening up avenues into action: Future directions in conversation analysis. In J. D. Robinson, R. Clift, K. H. Kendrick, & C. W. Raymond (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Raymond, C. W., Clift, R., Kendrick, K., & Robinson, J. D. (2024). Methods in conversation analysis. In J. D. Robinson, R. Clift, K. H. Kendrick, & C. W. Raymond (Eds.). In J. D. Robinson, R. Clift, K. H. Kendrick, & C. W. Raymond (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Robinson, J. D., Clift, R., Kendrick, K. H., & Raymond, C. W. (Eds.). (2024). The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936583 

2023

Rossi, G., Dingemanse, M., Floyd, S., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Kendrick, K. H., Zinken, J., Enfield, N. J. (2023). Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale. Scientific Reports, 13:6057. [site] [pdf]

Gan, Y., Greiffenhagen, C., Kendrick, K. H. (2023). Sequence Facilitation: Grandparents Engineering Parent–Child Interactions in Video Calls. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 56:1, 65-88. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., Holler, J., Levinson, Stephen C. (2023). Turn-taking in human face-to-face interaction is multimodal: gaze direction and manual gestures aid the coordination of turn transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378, 20210473. [site] [pdf]

2021

Holler, J., Alday, P. M., Decuyper, C., Geiger, M., Kendrick, K. H., & Meyer, A. S. (2021). Competition reduces response times in multiparty conversation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 3720. [site] [pdf] 

Kendrick, K. H. (2021). The ‘Other’ side of recruitment: Methods of assistance in social interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 178, 68–82. [site] [pdf]

Hoey, E. M., Hömke, P., Löfgren, E., Neumann, T., Schuerman, W. L., & Kendrick, K. H. (2021). Using expletive insertion to pursue and sanction in interaction. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(1), 3-25. [site] [pdf]

2020

Kendrick, K. H., Brown, P., Dingemanse, M., Floyd, S., Gipper, S., Hayano, K., Hoey, E., Hoymann, G., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2020). Sequence organization: A universal infrastructure for social action. Journal of Pragmatics, 168, 119-138. [site] [pdf] [supplementary materials]

Kendrick, K. H. (2020). Recruitment in English: A Quantitative Study. In S. Floyd, G. Rossi, and N. J. Enfield (Eds.), Recruitments across Languages. Language Science Press. [pdf]

Bögels, S., Kendrick, K. H., & Levinson, S. C. (2020). Conversational expectations get revised as response latencies unfold. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(6), 766-779. [site] [pdf] 

2019

Kendrick, K. H. (2019). Evidential Vindication in Next Turn: Using the Retrospective “See?” in Conversation. In L. Speed, C. O’Meara, L. San Roque, & A. Majid (Eds.), Perception Metaphor (pp. 253-274). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [site] [pdf]

2018

San Roque, L., Kendrick, K. H., Norcliffe, E., & Majid, A. (2018). Universal meaning extensions of perception verbs are grounded in interaction. Cognitive Linguistics, 29(3), 371-406. [site] [pdf]

Pika S., Wilkinson R., Kendrick, K.H., & Vernes, S.C. (2018). Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880), 20180598. [site] [pdf]

Floyd, S.; Rossi, G.; Baranova, J.; Blythe, J.; Dingemanse, M.; Kendrick, K. H.; Zinken, J.; Enfield, N. J. (2018). Universals and cultural diversity in the expression of gratitude. Royal Society Open Science, 5(5), 180391. [site] [pdf]

Drew, P., & Kendrick, K. H. (2018). Searching for trouble: Recruiting assistance through embodied action. Social Interaction: Video-based Studies of Human Sociality, 1(1). [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H. (2018). Adjusting Epistemic Gradients: The Final Particle Ba in Mandarin Chinese Conversation. East Asian Pragmatics, 3(1), 5-26. [site] [pdf] ​

2017

Kendrick, K. H. (2017). The preference for self-remediation over assistance in interaction. Paper presented at the 15th Annual International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Conference. Belfast, U.K. July 17, 2017. [pdf]

Hoey, E. M., & Kendrick, K. H. (2017). Conversation Analysis. In A. M. B. De Groot, & P. Hagoort (Eds.), Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language: A Practical Guide (pp. 151-173). Chichester: Wiley & Sons. [site] [pdf]

Holler, J., Kendrick, K. H., & Levinson, Stephen C. (2017). Processing language in face-to-face conversation: Questions with gestures get faster responses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H. (Ed.). (2017). Experimental and Laboratory Approaches to Conversation Analysis [Special issue]. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 50(1). [site] 

Kendrick, K. H. (2017). Using Conversation Analysis in the Lab. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 50(1), 1–11. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., & Holler, J. (2017). Gaze Direction Signals Response Preference in Conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 50(1), 12–32. [site] [pdf]

​2016

Kent, A., & Kendrick, K. H. (2016). Imperative Directives: Orientations to Accountability. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(3), 272-288. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2016). Recruitment: Offers, Requests, and the Organization of Assistance in Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 1-19. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2016). The boundary of recruitment: A response. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 32-33. [site] [pdf]

Holler, J., Kendrick, K. H., Casillas, M., & Levinson, S. C. (Eds.). (2016). Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. [site] [pdf]

Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K. H., & Enfield, N. J. (2016). A Coding Scheme for Other-Initiated Repair across Languages. Open Linguistics, 2, 35-46. [site​] [pdf]

2015

Bögels, S., Kendrick, K. H., & Levinson, S. C. (2015). Never say no… How the brain interprets the pregnant pause in conversation. PLoS One, 10(12): e0145474. [site] [pdf]

Dingemanse, M., Roberts, S. G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gisladottir, R. S., Kendrick, K. H., Levinson, S. C., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., & Enfield, N. J. (2015). Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems. PLoS One, 10(9): e0136100. [site] [pdf]

Holler, J., & Kendrick, K. H. (2015). Unaddressed participants’ gaze in multi-person interaction: Optimizing recipiency. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 98. [site] [pdf]

Holler, J., Kendrick, K. H., Casillas, M., & Levinson, S. C. (2015). Editorial: Turn-taking in human communicative interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1919. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H. (2015). Other-initiated repair in English. Open Linguistics, 1, 164-190. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H. (2015). The intersection of turn-taking and repair: The timing of other-initiations of repair in conversation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 250. [site] [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., & Torreira, F. (2015). The timing and construction of preference: A quantitative study. Discourse Processes, 52(4), 255-289. [site] [pdf]

San Roque, L., Kendrick, K. H., Norcliffe, E., Brown, P., Defina, R., Dingemanse, M., Dirksmeyer, T., Enfield, N. J., Floyd, S., Hammond, J., Rossi, G., Tufvesson, S., Van Putten, S., & Majid, A. (2015). Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies. Cognitive Linguistics, 26(1), 31-60. [site] [pdf]

2014

Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2014). The putative preference for offers over requests. In P. Drew, & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Requesting in Social Interaction (pp. 87-113). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [site] [pdf]

2013

Enfield, N. J., Dingemanse, M., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Brown, P., Dirksmeyer, T., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gipper, S., Gisladottir, R. S., Hoymann, G., Kendrick, K. H., Levinson, S. C., Magyari, L., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., San Roque, L., & Torreira, F. (2013). Huh? What? – A first survey in 21 languages. In M. Hayashi, G. Raymond, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), Conversational repair and human understanding (pp. 343-380). New York: Cambridge University Press. [site] [pdf]

2011

Enfield, N. J., Kendrick, K. H., De Ruiter, J. P., Stivers, T., & Levinson, S. C. (2011). Building a corpus of spontaneous interaction. In Field manual volume 14 (pp. 29-32). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. [pdf]

Kendrick, K. H., & Majid, A. (Eds.). (2011). Field manual volume 14. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.