fEMG as a window into conversational commitments
Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart, Bob van Tiel
January 2025 

This paper presents a first experiment within a larger series of experiments on commitments taken on by our speech acts. The experiment serves as a proof of method, demonstrating that the physiological measure of facial electromyography (fEMG)—the recording of facial muscle activity—is a useful methodology for studying commitments in communication. Specifically, we experimentally demonstrate that we can use fEMG to measure norm violations in conversation and from there infer the commitments taken on by conversational participants. We explain how this methodology can be expected to contribute to a better understanding of what happens when we communicate.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008885 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29
keywords:	speech acts, commitments, physiological measures, facial electromyography, semantics
previous versions:	v1 [January 2025]
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