The figures for the 2013-2014 period will be out soon, so it might be worth looking at the historical trend.
ROLSI started quietly, but built up a decent following, and by the 2010s had reached a pleasing impact rate. It is now over 2, making it the second most cited journal in Communications, and third in Linguistics.
We look forward to what the next, imminent, set of figures will reveal.
Jenny Mandelbaum offers these videos that she and colleagues use in teaching CA at Rutgers:
Jenny adds that YouTube has a free downloader, called YTD Video Downloader, available at http://download.cnet.com/YTD-Video-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html
Many groups of language-in-interaction researchers have regular meetings at which they look over a recording and share their analytic insights. These data-sessions can be a very useful and productive way of generating ideas, as well as being enjoyable occasions for like-minded researchers to feel part of a community.
Over the next weeks we shall be drawing up a list of these data sessions, to have a record of them in one place.
If anyone would like to add their group to the list, do please contact us at c.antaki@lboro.ac.uk.
A guest ROLSI Blog Entry – from Emily Hofstetter, Loughborough University, UK
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.
Another set of video clips useful for teaching language in interaction, this time from Edward Reynolds (University of New Hampshire):
One from Cade Bushnell (University of Tsukuba):
More clips useful for teaching, suggested by Adam Brandt (Newcastle-upon-Tyne):
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:
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:
More later!
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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