Barbara Laner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Laner is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 8. Laughter and gaze among talkers on a walk Mobile Eye Tracking: New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction, Zima, Elisabeth and Anja Stukenbrock (eds.), pp. 208–242 | Chapter
While the functions of gaze in (other types of) F-formations have been the focus of a considerable amount of research, the gaze patterns found in side-by-side constellations have remained largely unexplored. In this chapter, we look at a particularly frequent, but also highly complex type of… read more
2025 Chapter 10. Joint attention without language? On intersubjectivity and the joint experience of nature Mobile Eye Tracking: New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction, Zima, Elisabeth and Anja Stukenbrock (eds.), pp. 277–310 | Chapter
We discuss the question of whether the intersubjective experience of nature requires language or whether it can be achieved by bodily means alone. Based on mobile eye-tracking data and audio recordings from walks in nature, we focus on noticings. We claim that two levels of intersubjectivity are… read more
2024 Noticing and assessing nature: A multimodal investigation of the format “perception imperative + exclamative” based on mobile eye-tracking data New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 245–275 | Chapter
We analyze how walkers employ a verbal format, i.e., the combination of a perception imperative followed by a wie ‘how’-exclamative (e.g., KUCK ma wie TRAUMhaft das is; ‘look PTCL how wonderful that is’), in its multimodal embedding, thus contributing to a multimodal extension of interactional… read more

