Response tokens in interaction -- prosody, phonetics and a visual aspect of German JAJA. Gesprächsforschung 12, 301--370. http://www.gespraechsforschung-ozs.de/heft2011/ga-barth-weingarten.pdf (last accessed 23.07.2012

This paper contributes to the growing body of knowledge on current listeners ' re-sponses in talk-in-interaction. In particular, it complements earlier findings on double sayings of German JA by describing some additional prosodic-phonetic parameters and a visual feature of its realization in institutional and semi-private interaction (doctor-patient interaction, Big Brother, TV talk shows). These include pitch contour, pitch range and phonetic ending, on the one hand, and nodding on the other. The paper shows that JAJA is a truly multimodal phenomenon, with the indi-vidual features accomplishing interactional functions across sequence-organiza-tional habitats, including (re)claiming epistemic priority in an aside, making con-tinuation relevant, agreeing / acknowledging with reservation and aligning with the continuation of a sequence. Lack of nodding is suggested to have situational as well as misalignment reasons. On the basis of its observations, the paper also raises the question whether it is the applicability of response token variants across action and sequence types which makes them memorizable despite their variability