Call for Papers

We welcome submission of extended abstracts (2 pages for text + 1 for references and figures) of completed studies and/or substantial work-in-progress in any of the areas outlined in the workshop description. 

Research themes include, but are not restricted to, these aspects pertaining to the production and perception of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations in both spoken and signed languages:

• Articulation, acoustics and perception

• Gesture, sign, facial expressions and other bodily behaviour

• Interaction and pragmatics

• Affective and evaluative meanings

• Social perception and organisation

• Disfluency 

• Technology applications

Submissions in previous editions have included work on Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, Gesture Studies, Computer Science, Human-Robot and Human-Machine Interaction, Forensic Speech Science, Psychology, Sociolinguistics, L2 Learning, Health and Clinical applications.

Scientific committee

Anastasia Bauer, Cologne University, Germany

Simon Betz, Bielefeld University, Germany

Marina Cantarutti, University of York, United Kingdom

Jessica Di Napoli, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Jonathan Ginzburg, Paris Cité University, France

Christine Howes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Emily Hofstetter, Linköping University, Sweden

Leelo Keevallik, Linköping University, Sweden

Loulou Kosmala, Paris Est-Créteil University, France

Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Carolyn McGettigan, University College London, United Kingdom

Richard Ogden, University of York, United Kingdom

Catherine Pelachaud, ISIR, Sorbonne University, France

Loredana Schettino, Federico II University, Italy

Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Germany

Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Petra Wagner, Bielefeld University, Germany

Sally Wiggins, Linköping University, Sweden

Simon Wehrle, Cologne University, Germany

Meg Zellers, Stockholm University, Sweden

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.