University of Waterloo

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Waterloo*

Child-Robot Interaction: Design, Evaluation, and Novel Solutions: Special issue of Interaction Studies 23:2 (2022)

Edited by Marta Couto, Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi & Vicky Charisi

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 23:2] 2023. | special issue

Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023)

Edited by Emma Betz, Taiane Malabarba & Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

Subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics

[Applied Pragmatics, 5:2] 2023. | special issue

OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada & Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] 2021. | edited volume

Mobilizing others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities

Edited by Emma Betz, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm & Peter Golato

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] 2020. | edited volume

Harris, Randy Allen 2026 Rhetorical schemes and Construction Grammar: The argument from chiasmus

Keywords: figuration | rhetorical schemes | chiasmus | antimetabole | neurocognition

Constructions and Frames 18:1 pp. 100–138 | article

Weiler, Andrew J. 2025 The common plot: Transient characters in Indigenous storytelling

Keywords: storytelling | Indigenous literature | a dish with one spoon | decolonization | Canadian history | transient characters | diplomacy

In: Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States, Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian (ed.) [Studies in Narrative, 28] pp. 229–247

Pierre, Thomas St., Katherine S. White & Elizabeth K. Johnson 2025 Grammar policing children: Does gender matter?

Keywords: error correction | developmental sociolinguistics | language and gender | language development

In: Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura & Eline Zenner (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] pp. 142–153

Golato, Andrea, Emma Betz, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm & Veronika Drake 2024 Verbal and bodily practices for addressing trouble associated with embodied moves in game play

Keywords: English | embodiment | game playing | German | interventions | multimodality | remedial action | repair | rules | trouble

In: New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret & Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 36] pp. 187–219 | open access

Mahdi, Hamza, Melanie Jouaiti, Shahed Saleh & Kerstin Dautenhahn 2024 Towards accessible robot-assisted physical play for children with physical disabilities: MyJay, from user-centred design to an initial feasibility study

Keywords: human-robot interaction | robot-assisted play | accessibility | designing for children | MyJay

Interaction Studies 25:1 pp. 36–69 | article | open access

Jouaiti, Melanie, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv & Kerstin Dautenhahn 2025 What do we mean by synchrony in human–robot interaction research?: Towards a unifying framework

Keywords: synchrony | coordination | synchronization | social interactions

Interaction Studies 25:3 pp. 313–339 | article

Dolmage, Jay Timothy 2023 Disability in dialogue: A heteroglossary

Keywords: embodiment | interdependence | voice | aids | mediation | mutuality | resistance

In: Disability in Dialogue, Hughes, Jessica M. F. & Mariaelena Bartesaghi (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 33] pp. 199–208

Rossi, Alessandra, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay & Michael L. Walters 2024 A matter of consequences: Understanding the effects of robot errors on people’s trust in HRI

Keywords: trust | social robotics | previous experiences | antecedents of trust | robots’ errors | faulty robots

Interaction Studies 24:3 pp. 380–421 | article

Malabarba, Taiane & Emma Betz 2023 Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Introduction to the Special Issue

Keywords: conversation analysis | interactional competence | language testing | rater training | speaking assessment | second and foreign languages

Applied Pragmatics 5:2 pp. 121–141 | introduction

Feddersen, Richard, Grit Liebscher & Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain 2023 Turn-taking in the interactive Linguistic Landscape

Keywords: linguistic landscape | conversation analysis | turn-taking | semiotic turn | interaction | geosemiotics | ELLA | Germany

Linguistic Landscape 10:1 pp. 22–54 | article

Couto, Marta, Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi & Vicky Charisi 2023 Child-robot interaction: Design, evaluation, and novel solutions

Interaction Studies 23:2 pp. 151–156 | editorial

Harris, Randy Allen 2022 Chiastic iconicity: Refiguring symmetry

Keywords: antimetabole | chiasmus | construction grammar | figural collocation | image schemes | rhetorical schemes | symmetry

In: Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg & Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] pp. 103–134

Helmer, Henrike, Emma Betz & Arnulf Deppermann 2021 Coordination of OKAY, nods, and gaze in claiming understanding and closing topics

Keywords: nodding | gaze | multimodal | bodily conduct | object manipulation | understanding | closing | transition | change-of-state token | German

In: OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] pp. 363–393

Betz, Emma & Arnulf Deppermann 2021 OKAY in responding and claiming understanding

Keywords: informing | second position | third position | closing | understanding | intersubjectivity | newsmark | continuer | (discrepancy of) expectation | prosody

In: OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] pp. 56–92

Betz, Emma & Marja-Leena Sorjonen 2021 Introduction: OKAY emerging as a cross-linguistic object of study in prior research

In: OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] pp. 2–28

Aliasghari, Pourya, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv & Kerstin Dautenhahn 2022 Impact of nonverbal robot behaviour on human teachers’ perceptions of a learner robot

Keywords: nonverbal behaviour | kinesics | gaze | perceived robot attributes | social learning

Interaction Studies 22:2 pp. 141–176 | article | open access

Betz, Emma, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm & Peter Golato 2020 Mobilizing others: An introduction

In: Mobilizing others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities, Betz, Emma, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm & Peter Golato (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] pp. 1–18

Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen, Veronika Drake, Andrea Golato & Emma Betz 2020 Mobilizing for the next relevant action: Managing progressivity in card game interactions

Keywords: games | gaze | German | imperatives | multimodality | progressivity | prompt | second-person declaratives | so

In: Mobilizing others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities, Betz, Emma, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm & Peter Golato (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] pp. 47–82

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry 2018 Investigating L1 lay assessments of L2 French pronunciation

Keywords: French L2 pronunciation | lay listener assessments | accentedness | comprehensibility

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 4:1 pp. 103–128 | article

Schulze, Mathias & Kyle Scholz 2016 CALL theory: Complex adaptive systems

Keywords: complex adaptive systems | complexity theory | digital gaming | second language development

In: Language-Learner Computer Interactions: Theory, methodology and CALL applications, Caws, Catherine & Marie-Josée Hamel (eds.) [Language Studies, Science and Engineering, 2] pp. 65–87 | open access

Gladkova, Olga, Chrysanne DiMarco & Randy Allen Harris 2015 What’s in a name: Journal titles in the field of epistemic research

Keywords: epistemic studies | environmental scan | journal titles | metacommunication | survey methods

Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:3 pp. 259–286 | article

Kidd, Celeste, Katherine S. White & Richard N. Aslin 2011 Learning the meaning of “um”: Toddlers' developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakers' referential intentions

In: Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal & Eve V. Clark (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 7] p. 91

Harris, Randy Allen 2010 Chomsky’s other Revolution

In: Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.)  pp. 237–264 | open access

Harris, Randy Allen 1993 The origin and developmemt of generative semantics

Historiographia Linguistica 20:2/3 pp. 399–440 | article

Kaltz, Barbara 1983 Alfred Tonnellé Als Übersetzer und Interpret Wilhelm Von Humboldts: Ein Beitrag Zur Erforschung Der Frühen Humboldt-Rezeption in Frankreich

Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2 pp. 63–76 | article

Ashworth, E. J. 1980 “Can I Speak more Clearly than I Understand?”: A Problem of Religious Language in Henry of Ghent, Duns Scotus and Ockham

Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2 pp. 29–38 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.