Find the perfect question – or get some data?

A guest ROLSI Blog Entry – from Emily Hofstetter, Loughborough University, UK

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Compared with other research students, postgraduates using conversation analysis have to do their work ‘backwards’. Instead of diving into their literature review as their first major hurdle, it often makes sense for CA PhD students to write their literature review last, or nearly last, and use their first year to acquire data and begin analysis. But the more challenging mental hurdle isn’t necessarily getting access to data; it’s wrapping one’s head around a completely new method of research.

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Entertaining clips for teaching (4)

Another set of video clips useful for teaching language in interaction, this time from Edward Reynolds (University of New Hampshire):

Entertaining clips for teaching (2)

More clips useful for teaching, suggested by Adam Brandt (Newcastle-upon-Tyne):

Entertaining video clips to use in teaching (1)

Prompted by a suggestion made by Tim Halkowski, Ruth Parry (Nottingham) and other colleagues have been identifying clips from TV shows and so on that they might use to help get across language-in-interaction concepts to students.

I’ll put up their suggestions as they come in.

Ruth Parry:

Upcoming articles

The mss. of the next issue’s articles have just gone up to the printers. Once proofs have been checked by the authors, I’ll post the titles and abstracts.

As a trailer, here are the topics the contributors deal with:

  • A comprehensive survey of literature on embodiment

  • Talk and touch in directives

  • Dementia

  • Conversing while massaging

  • Using names for reference

More later!

Views per capita

Here’s a listing of the geography of the top ten of the first day’s visitors, but this time re-ordered per capita of their countries’ populations. A nice snippet of evidence supporting the long-held belief that Finland is, pound for pound, the world capital of language-in-interaction work.

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First views of this site

We were curious as to the geographical origins of visits to this site – would the pattern accord with our sense of where ROLSI readers and writers live? Here are the results on the first day after the blog was publicised.

country views of rolsi blog