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title = "Documenting Rural Gatherings in Aging {J}apan: Social Context and Language Use in Interaction at a Mobile Supermarket",
author = "Sakai, Haruka and
Sakaida, Rui",
editor = "Stranisci, Marco Antonio and
Falk, Neele and
Labat, Sofie and
Lo, Soda Marem and
Velutharambath, Aswathy and
Weber, Sabine and
Damiano, Rossana and
Frenda, Simona and
Hoste, Veronique and
Kleinberg, Bennett and
Klinger, Roman and
Patti, Viviana and
Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam and
Sap, Maarten and
Yimam, Seid Muhie",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Context ({S}o{C}on) and the 2nd Workshop on Integrating {NLP} and Psychology to Study Social Interactions ({NLPSI}) @ {LREC} 2026",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.socon-1.2/",
doi = "10.63317/32x8xd3uvs6j",
pages = "15--24",
abstract = "This paper presents a documentation framework and an exploratory analysis of language use in everyday interactions at rural gatherings in aging Japan, a communicative setting shaped by distinct social contexts that remain largely absent from existing language resources. Drawing on studies of face-to-face encounters, we propose a typology of rural gatherings and examine mobile supermarkets (vehicles that transport and sell daily necessities at scheduled stops in areas that lack fixed retail stores) as a case study. We present a preliminary analysis based on a community-mediated recording methodology. The quantitative findings reveal that conversational hot spots occur immediately following the encounter and transaction phases, indicating that participants experience these encounters as occasions for social connection rather than mere commercial transactions. The qualitative findings from the interaction analysis demonstrate how participants simultaneously manage work and conversation through vocal, bodily, and temporal resources in a social context. We discuss how these findings illuminate dimensions in social contexts that require interdisciplinary investigation beyond what existing language resources currently capture."
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%T Documenting Rural Gatherings in Aging Japan: Social Context and Language Use in Interaction at a Mobile Supermarket
%A Sakai, Haruka
%A Sakaida, Rui
%Y Stranisci, Marco Antonio
%Y Falk, Neele
%Y Labat, Sofie
%Y Lo, Soda Marem
%Y Velutharambath, Aswathy
%Y Weber, Sabine
%Y Damiano, Rossana
%Y Frenda, Simona
%Y Hoste, Veronique
%Y Kleinberg, Bennett
%Y Klinger, Roman
%Y Patti, Viviana
%Y Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
%Y Sap, Maarten
%Y Yimam, Seid Muhie
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Context (SoCon) and the 2nd Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) @ LREC 2026
%D 2026
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
%F sakai-sakaida-2026-documenting
%X This paper presents a documentation framework and an exploratory analysis of language use in everyday interactions at rural gatherings in aging Japan, a communicative setting shaped by distinct social contexts that remain largely absent from existing language resources. Drawing on studies of face-to-face encounters, we propose a typology of rural gatherings and examine mobile supermarkets (vehicles that transport and sell daily necessities at scheduled stops in areas that lack fixed retail stores) as a case study. We present a preliminary analysis based on a community-mediated recording methodology. The quantitative findings reveal that conversational hot spots occur immediately following the encounter and transaction phases, indicating that participants experience these encounters as occasions for social connection rather than mere commercial transactions. The qualitative findings from the interaction analysis demonstrate how participants simultaneously manage work and conversation through vocal, bodily, and temporal resources in a social context. We discuss how these findings illuminate dimensions in social contexts that require interdisciplinary investigation beyond what existing language resources currently capture.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.socon-1.2/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/32x8xd3uvs6j
%P 15-24
Markdown (Informal)
[Documenting Rural Gatherings in Aging Japan: Social Context and Language Use in Interaction at a Mobile Supermarket](https://aclanthology.org/2026.socon-1.2/) (Sakai & Sakaida, SoCon-NLPSI 2026)
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