Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness.

Standard models of language and communication depart from the assumption that speakers encode and receive messages individually, while interaction research has shown that utterances are composed jointly (C. Goodwin, 2018), dialogically designed with and for others (Linell, 2009). Furthermore, utterances only achieve their full semantic potential in concrete interactional contexts. This SI investigates various practices of human sounding that achieve their meaning through self and others' ongoing bodily actions. One person may vocalize to enact someone else's ongoing bodily experience, to coordinate with another body, or to convey embodied knowledge about something that is ostensibly only accessible to another's individual body. This illustrates the centrality of distributed action and collaborative agency in communication. • Sounding for others is an analytic umbrella term for vocalizing on another's behalf or for their benefit, particularly in voicing their bodily events • Sounding for others demonstrates that vocal behavior is not a system of linear communication but an embodied, multisensory and collaborative resource of meaning making in interaction • Papers in this special issue investigate vocalizing others' bodies, focusing on events that have a strong sensorial and/or emotional component • Participants maximally highlight co-presence and dissolve territories of agency and individuality [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]