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How many people have you greeted today, even just in passing? Over the course of your lifetime, or even over the past few days, how many times have you introduced yourself to someone new? And how many times have you arrived to some social scene after enduring bad traffic or inclement weather, and you find yourself talking about that experience as you arrive?

What happens in these opening moments of face-to-face interactions is what Danielle Pillet-Shore studies. An associate professor in the , Pillet-Shore has recently guest edited a special issue of the leading international journal in her field, Research on Language and Social Interaction. The volume, entitled 鈥淥pening and Maintaining Face-to-Face Interaction,鈥� draws on her extensive research on the openings of copresent encounters.

鈥淭hese phenomena are so deeply part of the background of our daily social lives that effort is required to notice them,鈥� says Pillet-Shore. 鈥淭his special issue helps us perceive these incredibly familiar everyday phenomena, in a sense for the very first time, and shows that people 鈥� rather than being idiosyncratic or chaotic 鈥� are in fact orderly in everyday, spontaneous interaction with others.鈥�

Pillet-Shore authored two of the seven articles in the issue, which also includes an article by 易胜博官网 faculty member Mardi Kidwell. Pillet-Shore鈥檚 鈥淗ow to Begin鈥� introduces the issue and elucidates state-of-the-art findings from conversation analytic research on how people begin encounters. Her second article, 鈥淎rriving: Expanding the Personal State Sequence鈥� explains how people show how they鈥檙e doing and feeling as they arrive to a social encounter as a way of bidding for empathy from others.

鈥淭he beginnings of our encounters with others are microcosmic encapsulations of our social relationships,鈥� says Pillet-Shore.

The entire issue is available online at .

Pillet-Shore teaches courses on language and social interaction, conversation analysis and institutional interaction, including in emergency service, legal, medical, family-school and political contexts. Her research has been published in the Journal of Communication and Communication Monographs, as well as in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Language in Society and Discourse Studies. Her work has also appeared in previous volumes of Research on Language and Social Interaction.听