From the current issue: Turn-taking in the skate pool

The second article from Volume 48 issue 4 that we feature is by Jonas Ivarsson. Jonas has been doing some ethnography with skateboarders, and seeing how their interaction plays to conversational rules. He and his co-author Christian Greiffenhagen have written it up in the journal  here. This is a lively summary of some background, and some subtle analytical work on the standard Sacks-Schegloff-Jefferson model.

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Jonas Ivarsson, University of Gothenburg

A few years ago I was visiting scholar at UCLA. During the stay I was living with my family on the border between Venice and Santa Monica, only a quick walk to the beach. This place was very much the birthplace of modern skateboarding and the traces are still in evidence. Continue reading →

From the latest issue: Why talk now?

Elliott Hoey has a fascinating article in the current issue of ROLSI (viewable here). What happens when there’s silence between people? Are all silences the same? Does everyone have equal rights to break it? Elliott has provided a very lively short version of his article as the blog below, and you can (if you have access) read the full piece here.  Continue reading →

A ROLSI Q&A (Part 1): Submissions, reviews, reviewers, revisions ..

In a collegial and wide-ranging discussion at Linköping University with Leelo Keevallik, Asta Cekaite, Nigel Musk, Ali Reza Majlesi and Mathias Broth, I was very happy to answer queries about ROLSI’s reviewing and decision-making. The Linköping group encompassed experienced and early-career researchers, established publishers and novices, expert senior reviewers and those just starting out. We all found it a useful experience, and we got together afterwards to prepare a set of notes that we think might be of interest to the broader ROLSI readership. Part 1 appears here; more later.

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Guest blog: Videobased Reflection on Team and employee Interaction (ViRTI)

One of the most influential movements in applied Conversation Analysis champions the use of video in training service personnel – especially following the CARM method pioneered by Liz Stokoe. In this blog, I’m delighted to feature a report on a new development of the principle by Brian L. Due and Simon B. Lange: Videobased Reflection on Team and employee Interaction (ViRTI)

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Brian Lystgaard Due

During the last couple of years an interventionist approach has emerged within the applied or institutional programme of CA. The book Applied Conversation Analysis by Antaki (2011), and especially Elizabeth Stokoe’s work on the Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) (e.g. Stokoe, 2014), has set the scene for a systematic reflection on how to use CA as a practical counselling method that can actually be of help to professionals “in real life”.

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Guest Blog: Conversation Analysis and online communication

One of the fastest-growing areas of CA-inspired research is in the field of computer-mediated communication – everything from human-machine interaction through to synchronous and asynchronous social media.  In this very welcome guest blog, Jo Meredith, Trena Paulus, Wyke Stommel and David Giles send in a report on the 3rd International Symposium for the Micro-analysis Of Online Data: Online communication, discourse and context, a significant meeting of cutting edge research.

Jo Meredith, Salford University

Jo Meredith, Salford University

Trena Paulus, Univetsity of Georgia

Trena Paulus, Univetsity of Georgia

Wyke Stommel, Radboud University

Wyke Stommel, Radboud University

David Giles, University of Winchester

David Giles, University of Winchester

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Guest Blog: Maurice Nevile on transcribing Gail Jefferson

A talk by Gail Jefferson, one of the founders of Conversation Analysis, has been recently made available, and Maurice Nevile undertook to transcribe it for the benefit of the language-in-interaction community. Here he reports on what it meant to him, and what we can all get out of such a powerful historical document.

Maurice Nevile, University of Southern Denmark

Maurice Nevile, University of Southern Denmark

Transcribing Gail Jefferson: The 1977 Boston talk as it actually was

When I first saw the film recording of Gail Jefferson presenting at the 1977 Boston University Conference on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis I was immediately keen to transcribe it. Continue reading →

Guest Blog: A bonus IPrA track – was conversation “built for two”?

As a bonus to the guest blogs the on IPrA conference, I’m delighted that Elliott Hoey has accepted an invitation to contribute a report on Tanya Stivers’ keynote address. This was one of the most thoughtful and original presentations, raising as it did the question: did the evolution of talk favour two, and only two, people?

Elliott Hoey, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen

Elliott Hoey, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen

The taskmasters at IPrA convinced a sizeable crowd to attend an 8:30am plenary talk by Tanya Stivers, who suggested that conversation is “built” for dyadic interaction. Her abstract can be found here.  The following is not verbatim reporting, but simply what I recall. Continue reading →

Guest Blog: IPrA Conference (3) reflections, and a look to 2017

In this final round-up of reports from the International Pragmatics (IPrA) conference in Antwerp, I’m delighted to have reflections of Barbara de Cock on CA and social media (including Twitter!) and then Catrin Rhys looking forward to her and her colleagues’ organisation of the next big IPrA, in Belfast 2017.

Barbara de Cock: CA, CMC and social media

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Guest Blog: Report on IPrA (2) – Transcribing non-English and English data

In the second of our guest blogs on the huge IPrA conference, Mark Dingemanse sends in this comprehensive and thoughtful report on one of the liveliest of the discussion Panels – how languages other than English fare in the research community.

Transcribing talk-in-interaction in languages other than English

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Mark Dingemanse, MPI Nijmegen

Testifying to the power of CA methods and insights, a growing number of researchers study the empirical details of talk-in-interaction in languages other than English.

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