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International Symposium on (Un)cooperative behaviour

2024-11-13T14:38:17Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Workshop, Symposium
|Full title=International Symposium on (Un)cooperative behaviour
|Short title=Uncooperativeness
|Short summary=Registration for the international symposium "(Un-)Cooperative Behaviour in Social Interaction", Dec 4-6 2024 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, is now open! Find more info on the symposium, a list of attending speakers & the registration link here:
|Announcement text=While cooperation is central to social interaction, it is hard to deny that uncooperative behaviour is also common in everyday life and plays an important role in various interactional settings, as in family interactions (Frankenberg, 1979; Vuchinich, 1990), therapeutic discourse (Labov & Fanshel, 1977), army training (Culpeper, 1996), courtrooms (Heritage & Clayman, 2011: ch. 4; Lakoff, 1989; Penman, 1990), news interviews (Clayman & Heritage, 2002), mediation (Deppermann, 1997; Nothdurft, 1996; Spranz-Fogasy, 1986), and political discussions (Heritage & Clayman, 2011: ch. 5; Luginbühl, 1999).

In this 3-day symposium, we will approach the study of (un-)cooperative behaviour in social interaction with the methods and perspective of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics (CA/IL). Within these research areas, cooperation is treated as advancing the initiated course of action and “collaborating with the agenda being pursued by the prior speaker” (Clayman, 2002: 231). Thus, uncooperative or discordant actions halt the progression of the launched course of action and resist the prior speaker’s agenda or project (Levinson, 2013) or the normative order and expectations in a particular environment in general, thereby violating social solidarity (Clayman, 2002). We will seek to (i) identify different types of uncooperative behaviour in mundane and institutional talk-in-interaction, (ii) uncover how and which interactional factors contribute to our situated understanding of an action as cooperative versus uncooperative, and (iii) discover hitherto undescribed practices for different kinds of discordant actions in social interaction and the ways in which participants respond to them.

The proposed sessions and discussions will centre around the following topics:

(1) Linguistic and embodied practices related to (un-)cooperative behaviour

(2) Conflictual talk and disaffiliative actions in mundane interaction

(3) The complexity of (dis-)affiliative and (un-)cooperative responses

(4) Uncooperative behaviour as ‘violence’

(5) Conceptualization of (un-)cooperative behaviour and related concept

Online participation is possible. No registration fees. Find more info on the symposium, a list of attending speakers & the registration link here: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2024/symposium/
|Year=2024
|Web link=https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2024/symposium/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2024/12/04
|To date=2024/12/06
|Address=Leibniz Institute for the German Language and online (hybrid)
|Location=49.48801, 8.47222
}}

International Winter School 2025

2024-07-09T06:04:32Z

AlexandraGubina:

International Winter School 2025

2024-07-09T05:57:50Z

AlexandraGubina:

International Winter School 2025

2024-07-09T05:32:08Z

AlexandraGubina:

International Winter School 2025

2024-07-08T13:56:15Z

AlexandraGubina:

International Winter School 2025

2024-07-08T12:59:15Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Training, Workshop
|Full title=International Winter School 2025: Points of departure in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics: Action, form(at) and beyond
|Short title=International Winter
|Short summary=Call for applications: Apply for the International Winter School 2025 on 'Points of departure in CA and IL', 17-19 Feb 2025, Mannheim (GER)! More info: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2025/international-winter-school
|Announcement text='''Organizers:''' Alexandra Gubina and Uwe-Alexander Küttner (Pragmatics Department, Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Mannheim)

'''Facilitators:'''

Emma Betz (University of Waterloo)

Arnulf Deppermann (IDS Mannheim)

Barbara A. Fox (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Elliott M. Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)

Florence Oloff (IDS Mannheim)

Simona Pekarek Doehler (Université de Neuchâtel)

Chase Wesley Raymond (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Jörg Zinken (IDS Mannheim)

'''Venue:''' Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Mannheim

'''Date(s):''' 17-19 February, 2025

'''Number of participants:''' max. 30 participants

There are various analytic pathways for research within Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL): One can start with a specific '''social action''' and focus, e.g., on how that specific action can be accomplished in a particular language or across different languages. Commonly, such inquiries begin with actions like requests (e.g., Curl and Drew 2008; Drew and Couper-Kuhlen 2014; Fox and Heinemann 2016, 2017; Gubina 2021; Rossi 2012; Zinken 2016), offers (e.g., Curl 2006; Mandelbaum & Lerner 2023; Mondada 2023; Raymond et al. 2021), proposals (e.g., Thompson et al. 2021), and assessments (e.g., Thompson et al. 2015), to mention just a few. Another common strategy is to begin with a '''(linguistic) form''' (Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 2001, 2018; Fox 2007), i.e., a recurrent (semi-)linguistic format on different levels of granularity used for accomplishing specific social actions in interaction. Studies focusing on social action formats usually examine various actions that can be carried out with a specific linguistic form (e.g., Betz 2008; Betz et al. 2021; Couper-Kuhlen 2014; Deppermann and Gubina 2021; Gubina 2022; Hoey 2022; Pekarek Doehler 2019; Rossi and Zinken 2016; Raymond 2017). Studies may also begin '''elsewhere''', including, e.g., starting with some interactional "task" or "problem" (like in the field of recruitments; Floyd et al. 2020; Kendrick/Drew 2016), the negotiation of deontic rights (Stevanovic 2013), or the use of embodied resources, such as gaze (Rossano 2012) or facial expressions (Groß et al. 2024; Kaukomaa et al. 2014) - again, to name just a few.

While these different approaches are well-recognized and established in CA and IL research, there is still little methodological discussion of what uniquely characterizes each of them. This Winter School therefore aims at promoting methodological reflections on these different approaches and the concrete analytic decisions and procedures they involve. We envisage an international 3-day workshop, dedicating one full day to practical engagement with each of the aforementioned research strategies:

(1) starting with form(s) (Day 1),
(2) starting with action(s) (Day 2),
(3) starting elsewhere (e.g., an interactional task/problem/outcome, features of the context/setting, identities, etc.) (Day 3).

The school will focus on methodological reflections concerning each of these different approaches, their pros and cons, typical problems, pitfalls, and analytic decisions one is likely to face when choosing one or the other, as well as offering possible solutions for these issues. This should provide early-career researchers (ECRs) with a clearer sense and a greater sensitivity for how the starting point they choose for their investigations may shape the trajectory of the analytic process further down the road.

The participants will be divided into groups according to the languages they speak/can work with (we are expecting German, English, and French groups). Each group will be given a data set in the respective language, which will be prepared by the facilitators, and which will be used throughout the entirety of the workshop. In addition, there will be opportunities for participants to contribute and work with their own data (if available). The idea is that the participants locate a phenomenon of interest and then approach it by starting with a specific form (Day 1), a particular action (Day 2), or from a different angle altogether (e.g., a specific interactional task/problem/outcome, a sequential slot, identity work, etc.) (Day 3). To enable us to better guide this process, we envisage there to be a common focal anchor point for the duration of the workshop that will allow participants to try out different approaches with respect to a common overarching theme—namely, ‘Mobilizing others’.

Each day will consist of

-a plenary talk giving an overview of steps, procedures, and recurrent problems of a specific point of departure/approach,
-intense analytic group work with facilitators, and
-discussion of the problems that the participants find themselves facing with each approach.

The workshop is designed for ECRs engaged in their own initial CA/IL projects who seek guidance, collaborative reflection on the methodological implications of their decisions, and learning about alternative approaches and possible solutions to recurrent problems.

The number of participants is capped to 30 to ensure an intensive scientific exchange and an informal atmosphere.

'''Registration'''

The total cost of the International Winter School is 200 EUR for unsalaried (post)graduates and 250 EUR for salaried researchers. This cost includes course materials, a Certificate of Attendance, light refreshments for coffee breaks, as well as lunch. It does not include breakfast and dinner, accommodation, or travel.

Due to the limited number of available spaces, participation will be decided via an application process. Applications must be submitted to winterschool_CA_IL(at)ids-mannheim.de and contain the following information, in a single PDF-file (max. 3 pages):

-a description of your prior CA/IL-related work, experience (training, knowledge of transcription conventions, project work, theses, publications, etc.) as well as the name(s) of supervisor(s)
-the topic of your PhD-project (or any other project you are currently working on)
-a concise curriculum vitae

The application deadline is '''19 August 2024'''. Applicants will be notified of their participation status by 26 August 2024.

For inquiries and further information, please contact us at '''winterschool_CA_IL(at)ids-mannheim.de'''.

Here you will find a report by Carolina Fenner, Galina Gostrer, Lydia Heiden, Taiane Malabarba, and Sam Schirm on the first International Summer Institute for Interactional Linguistics 2022 at the IDS Mannheim:
'''http://www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/fileadmin/dateien/heft2022/tb-interactional-linguistics.pdf'''

'''References:'''

Betz, E. (Ed.). (2008). Grammar and interaction: Pivots in German conversation. John Benjamins Publishing.

Betz, E., Deppermann, A., Mondada, L., & Sorjonen, M. L. (Eds.). (2021). OKAY across languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction. John Benjamins.

Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2014). What does grammar tell us about action? Pragmatics, 24(3), 623–647.

Couper-Kuhlen, E., & Selting, M. (2001). Introducing interactional linguistics. In E. Couper-Kuhlen & M. Selting (Eds.), Studies in interactional linguistics (pp. 1-22). John Benjamins.

Couper-Kuhlen, E., & Selting, M. (2017). Interactional linguistics: Studying language in social interaction. Cambridge University Press.

Curl, T. S. (2006). Offers of assistance. Constraints on syntactic design. Journal of Pragmatics, 38(8), 1257–1280.

Curl, T. S., & Drew, P. (2008). Contingency and action. A comparison of two forms of requesting. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 41(2), 129–153.

Deppermann, A., & Gubina, A. (2021). Positionally-sensitive action-ascription: Uses of Kannst du X? ‘Can you X?’ in their sequential and multimodal context. Interactional Linguistics, 1(2), 183–215.

Drew, P., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (Eds.). (2014). Requesting in social interaction. John Benjamins.

Floyd, S., Rossi, G., & Enfield, N. J. (Eds.). (2020). Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments. Language Science Press.

Fox, B. A. (2007). Principles shaping grammatical practices. An exploration. Discourse Studies, 9(3), 299–318.

Fox, B. A., & Heinemann, T. (2016). Rethinking format: An examination of requests. Language in Society, 45(4), 499–531.

Fox, B. A., & Heinemann, T. (2017). Issues in action formation. Requests and the problem with x. Open Linguistics, 3(1), 31–64.

Groß, A., Dix, C., Ruusuvuori, J., & Peräkylä, A. (2023). Facial gestures in social interaction: Introduction to the special issue. Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 6(3).

Gubina, A. (2021). Availability, grammar, and action formation. On simple and modal interrogative request formats in spoken German. Gesprächsforschung – Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion, 22, 272–303.

Gubina, A. (2022). Grammatik des Handelns in der sozialen Interaktion: Eine interaktionslinguistische, multimodale Untersuchung der Handlungskonstitution und -zuschreibung mit Modalverbformaten im gesprochenen Deutsch. Verlag für Gesprächsforschung.

Hoey, E. M. (2022). Self-authorizing action: On let me X in English social interaction. Language in Society, 51(1), 95-118.

Kaukomaa, T., Peräkylä, A., & Ruusuvuori, J. (2014). Foreshadowing a problem: Turn-opening frowns in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 132-147.

Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2016). Recruitment. Offers, requests, and the organization of assistance in interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 1–19.

Mandelbaum, J., & Lerner, G. H. (2023). On the communicative affordances of instrumental action: Offering meal service to others, whilst serving oneself. Journal of Pragmatics, 209, 149-167.

Mondada, L. (2023). Offering a Taste in Gourmet Food Shops: Small Gifts in an Economy of Sale. In B. Fox, L. Mondada & M.-L. Sorjonen (Eds.), Encounters at the Counter: The Organization of Shop Interactions (pp. 109–143). Cambridge University Press.

Pekarek Doehler, S. (2019). At the Interface of Grammar and the Body: Chais pas (“dunno”) as a Resource for Dealing with Lack of Recipient Response. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 52(4), 365-387.

Raymond, C. W. (2017). Indexing a contrast: The do-construction in English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 118, 22–37.

Raymond, C. W., Robinson, J. D., Fox, B. A., Thompson, S. A., & Montiegel, K. (2021). Modulating action through minimization. Syntax in the service of offering and requesting. Language in Society, 50(1), 53–91.

Rossano, F. (2012). Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction. MPI.

Rossi, G. (2012). Bilateral and unilateral requests. The use of imperatives and Mi X? interrogatives in Italian. Discourse Processes, 49(5), 426–458.

Rossi, G., & Zinken, J. (2016). Grammar and social agency: The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements. Language, 92(4), e296-e325.

Stevanovic, M. (2013). Deontic rights in interaction: A conversation analytic study on authority and cooperation (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki). Publications of the Department of Social Research.

Thompson, S. A., Fox, B. A., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2015). Grammar in everyday talk: Building responsive actions. Cambridge University Press.

Thompson, S. A., Fox, B. A., & Raymond, C. W. (2021). The grammar of proposals for joint activities. Interactional Linguistics, 1(1), 123–151.

Zinken, J. (2016). Requesting responsibility: The morality of grammar in Polish and English family interaction. Oxford University Press.
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2025/international-winter-school
|Categories (tags)=EMCA; IL; PhD; ECRs
|From date=2024/07/08
|To date=2025/02/19
|Address=R5, 6-13, 68161 Mannheim, Germany
|Location=49.48801, 8.47222
|Submission deadline=2024/08/19
|Notification date=2024/08/26
}}

International Winter School 2025

2024-07-08T12:57:22Z

AlexandraGubina: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Training, Workshop |Full title=International Winter School 2025: Points of departure in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics:..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Training, Workshop
|Full title=International Winter School 2025: Points of departure in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics: Action, form(at) and beyond
|Short title=International Winter
|Short summary=Call for applications: Apply for the International Winter School 2025 on 'Points of departure in CA and IL', 17-19 Feb 2025, Mannheim (GER)! More info: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2025/international-winter-school
|Announcement text='''Organizers:''' Dr. Alexandra Gubina and Dr. Uwe-Alexander Küttner (Pragmatics Department, Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Mannheim)

'''Facilitators:'''

Emma Betz (University of Waterloo)

Arnulf Deppermann (IDS Mannheim)

Barbara A. Fox (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Elliott M. Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)

Florence Oloff (IDS Mannheim)

Simona Pekarek Doehler (Université de Neuchâtel)

Chase Wesley Raymond (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Jörg Zinken (IDS Mannheim)

'''Venue:''' Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Mannheim

'''Date(s):''' 17-19 February, 2025

'''Number of participants:''' max. 30 participants

There are various analytic pathways for research within Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL): One can start with a specific '''social action''' and focus, e.g., on how that specific action can be accomplished in a particular language or across different languages. Commonly, such inquiries begin with actions like requests (e.g., Curl and Drew 2008; Drew and Couper-Kuhlen 2014; Fox and Heinemann 2016, 2017; Gubina 2021; Rossi 2012; Zinken 2016), offers (e.g., Curl 2006; Mandelbaum & Lerner 2023; Mondada 2023; Raymond et al. 2021), proposals (e.g., Thompson et al. 2021), and assessments (e.g., Thompson et al. 2015), to mention just a few. Another common strategy is to begin with a '''(linguistic) form''' (Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 2001, 2018; Fox 2007), i.e., a recurrent (semi-)linguistic format on different levels of granularity used for accomplishing specific social actions in interaction. Studies focusing on social action formats usually examine various actions that can be carried out with a specific linguistic form (e.g., Betz 2008; Betz et al. 2021; Couper-Kuhlen 2014; Deppermann and Gubina 2021; Gubina 2022; Hoey 2022; Pekarek Doehler 2019; Rossi and Zinken 2016; Raymond 2017). Studies may also begin '''elsewhere''', including, e.g., starting with some interactional "task" or "problem" (like in the field of recruitments; Floyd et al. 2020; Kendrick/Drew 2016), the negotiation of deontic rights (Stevanovic 2013), or the use of embodied resources, such as gaze (Rossano 2012) or facial expressions (Groß et al. 2024; Kaukomaa et al. 2014) - again, to name just a few.

While these different approaches are well-recognized and established in CA and IL research, there is still little methodological discussion of what uniquely characterizes each of them. This Winter School therefore aims at promoting methodological reflections on these different approaches and the concrete analytic decisions and procedures they involve. We envisage an international 3-day workshop, dedicating one full day to practical engagement with each of the aforementioned research strategies:

(1) starting with form(s) (Day 1),
(2) starting with action(s) (Day 2),
(3) starting elsewhere (e.g., an interactional task/problem/outcome, features of the context/setting, identities, etc.) (Day 3).

The school will focus on methodological reflections concerning each of these different approaches, their pros and cons, typical problems, pitfalls, and analytic decisions one is likely to face when choosing one or the other, as well as offering possible solutions for these issues. This should provide early-career researchers (ECRs) with a clearer sense and a greater sensitivity for how the starting point they choose for their investigations may shape the trajectory of the analytic process further down the road.

The participants will be divided into groups according to the languages they speak/can work with (we are expecting German, English, and French groups). Each group will be given a data set in the respective language, which will be prepared by the facilitators, and which will be used throughout the entirety of the workshop. In addition, there will be opportunities for participants to contribute and work with their own data (if available). The idea is that the participants locate a phenomenon of interest and then approach it by starting with a specific form (Day 1), a particular action (Day 2), or from a different angle altogether (e.g., a specific interactional task/problem/outcome, a sequential slot, identity work, etc.) (Day 3). To enable us to better guide this process, we envisage there to be a common focal anchor point for the duration of the workshop that will allow participants to try out different approaches with respect to a common overarching theme—namely, ‘Mobilizing others’.

Each day will consist of

-a plenary talk giving an overview of steps, procedures, and recurrent problems of a specific point of departure/approach,
-intense analytic group work with facilitators, and
-discussion of the problems that the participants find themselves facing with each approach.

The workshop is designed for ECRs engaged in their own initial CA/IL projects who seek guidance, collaborative reflection on the methodological implications of their decisions, and learning about alternative approaches and possible solutions to recurrent problems.

The number of participants is capped to 30 to ensure an intensive scientific exchange and an informal atmosphere.

'''Registration'''

The total cost of the International Winter School is 200 EUR for unsalaried (post)graduates and 250 EUR for salaried researchers. This cost includes course materials, a Certificate of Attendance, light refreshments for coffee breaks, as well as lunch. It does not include breakfast and dinner, accommodation, or travel.

Due to the limited number of available spaces, participation will be decided via an application process. Applications must be submitted to winterschool_CA_IL(at)ids-mannheim.de and contain the following information, in a single PDF-file (max. 3 pages):

-a description of your prior CA/IL-related work, experience (training, knowledge of transcription conventions, project work, theses, publications, etc.) as well as the name(s) of supervisor(s)
-the topic of your PhD-project (or any other project you are currently working on)
-a concise curriculum vitae

The application deadline is '''19 August 2024'''. Applicants will be notified of their participation status by 26 August 2024.

For inquiries and further information, please contact us at '''winterschool_CA_IL(at)ids-mannheim.de'''.

Here you will find a report by Carolina Fenner, Galina Gostrer, Lydia Heiden, Taiane Malabarba, and Sam Schirm on the first International Summer Institute for Interactional Linguistics 2022 at the IDS Mannheim:
'''http://www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/fileadmin/dateien/heft2022/tb-interactional-linguistics.pdf'''

'''References:'''

Betz, E. (Ed.). (2008). Grammar and interaction: Pivots in German conversation. John Benjamins Publishing.

Betz, E., Deppermann, A., Mondada, L., & Sorjonen, M. L. (Eds.). (2021). OKAY across languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction. John Benjamins.

Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2014). What does grammar tell us about action? Pragmatics, 24(3), 623–647.

Couper-Kuhlen, E., & Selting, M. (2001). Introducing interactional linguistics. In E. Couper-Kuhlen & M. Selting (Eds.), Studies in interactional linguistics (pp. 1-22). John Benjamins.

Couper-Kuhlen, E., & Selting, M. (2017). Interactional linguistics: Studying language in social interaction. Cambridge University Press.

Curl, T. S. (2006). Offers of assistance. Constraints on syntactic design. Journal of Pragmatics, 38(8), 1257–1280.

Curl, T. S., & Drew, P. (2008). Contingency and action. A comparison of two forms of requesting. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 41(2), 129–153.

Deppermann, A., & Gubina, A. (2021). Positionally-sensitive action-ascription: Uses of Kannst du X? ‘Can you X?’ in their sequential and multimodal context. Interactional Linguistics, 1(2), 183–215.

Drew, P., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (Eds.). (2014). Requesting in social interaction. John Benjamins.

Floyd, S., Rossi, G., & Enfield, N. J. (Eds.). (2020). Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments. Language Science Press.

Fox, B. A. (2007). Principles shaping grammatical practices. An exploration. Discourse Studies, 9(3), 299–318.

Fox, B. A., & Heinemann, T. (2016). Rethinking format: An examination of requests. Language in Society, 45(4), 499–531.

Fox, B. A., & Heinemann, T. (2017). Issues in action formation. Requests and the problem with x. Open Linguistics, 3(1), 31–64.

Groß, A., Dix, C., Ruusuvuori, J., & Peräkylä, A. (2023). Facial gestures in social interaction: Introduction to the special issue. Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 6(3).

Gubina, A. (2021). Availability, grammar, and action formation. On simple and modal interrogative request formats in spoken German. Gesprächsforschung – Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion, 22, 272–303.

Gubina, A. (2022). Grammatik des Handelns in der sozialen Interaktion: Eine interaktionslinguistische, multimodale Untersuchung der Handlungskonstitution und -zuschreibung mit Modalverbformaten im gesprochenen Deutsch. Verlag für Gesprächsforschung.

Hoey, E. M. (2022). Self-authorizing action: On let me X in English social interaction. Language in Society, 51(1), 95-118.

Kaukomaa, T., Peräkylä, A., & Ruusuvuori, J. (2014). Foreshadowing a problem: Turn-opening frowns in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 132-147.

Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2016). Recruitment. Offers, requests, and the organization of assistance in interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 1–19.

Mandelbaum, J., & Lerner, G. H. (2023). On the communicative affordances of instrumental action: Offering meal service to others, whilst serving oneself. Journal of Pragmatics, 209, 149-167.

Mondada, L. (2023). Offering a Taste in Gourmet Food Shops: Small Gifts in an Economy of Sale. In B. Fox, L. Mondada & M.-L. Sorjonen (Eds.), Encounters at the Counter: The Organization of Shop Interactions (pp. 109–143). Cambridge University Press.

Pekarek Doehler, S. (2019). At the Interface of Grammar and the Body: Chais pas (“dunno”) as a Resource for Dealing with Lack of Recipient Response. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 52(4), 365-387.

Raymond, C. W. (2017). Indexing a contrast: The do-construction in English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 118, 22–37.

Raymond, C. W., Robinson, J. D., Fox, B. A., Thompson, S. A., & Montiegel, K. (2021). Modulating action through minimization. Syntax in the service of offering and requesting. Language in Society, 50(1), 53–91.

Rossano, F. (2012). Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction. MPI.

Rossi, G. (2012). Bilateral and unilateral requests. The use of imperatives and Mi X? interrogatives in Italian. Discourse Processes, 49(5), 426–458.

Rossi, G., & Zinken, J. (2016). Grammar and social agency: The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements. Language, 92(4), e296-e325.

Stevanovic, M. (2013). Deontic rights in interaction: A conversation analytic study on authority and cooperation (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki). Publications of the Department of Social Research.

Thompson, S. A., Fox, B. A., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2015). Grammar in everyday talk: Building responsive actions. Cambridge University Press.

Thompson, S. A., Fox, B. A., & Raymond, C. W. (2021). The grammar of proposals for joint activities. Interactional Linguistics, 1(1), 123–151.

Zinken, J. (2016). Requesting responsibility: The morality of grammar in Polish and English family interaction. Oxford University Press.
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2025/international-winter-school
|Categories (tags)=EMCA; IL; PhD; ECRs
|From date=2024/07/08
|To date=2025/02/19
|Address=R5, 6-13, 68161 Mannheim, Germany
|Location=49.48801, 8.47222
|Submission deadline=2024/08/19
|Notification date=2024/08/26
}}

Gubina2024

2024-02-25T11:26:13Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexandra Gubina; Arnulf Deppermann
|Title=Rejecting the validity of inferred attributions of incompetence in German talk-in-interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Inference; Autonomy; Competence; Incompetence; Face; Interactional Linguistics
|Key=Gubina2024
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=221
|Pages=150-167
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216623003004
|Abstract=This paper deals with pragmatic inference from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In particular, we examine a specific variety of inferences – the attribution of incompetence which Self constructs on the basis of Other's prior action, hearable as positioning Self as incompetent (e.g., instructions, offers of assistance, advice); this attribution of incompetence concerns Self's execution of some practical task. This inference is indexed in Self's response, which highlights Self's expertise, or competence concerning the task at hand. We focus on two recurrent types of such responses in our data: (i) accounting for competence through formulations of prior experience with carrying out a practical action and (ii) explicit claims of competence for accomplishing this action. We analyze the interactional environments in which these responses occur, the ways in which the two practices index Self's understanding of being positioned as incompetent and the interactional work they do. Finally, we discuss how through rejecting an inferred attribution of incompetence, Self implicitly seeks to restore their face and defend their autonomy as an agent, yet, without entering an explicit identity-negotiation. Findings rest on the analysis of 20 cases found in video-recordings of naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German from the corpus FOLK.
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Gubina2024

2024-02-25T11:23:13Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexandra Gubina; Arnulf Deppermann
|Title=Rejecting the validity of inferred attributions of incompetence in German talk-in-interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Inference; Autonomy; Competence; Incompetence; Face; Interactional Linguistics
|Key=Gubina2024
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=221
|Pages=150-167
|Abstract=This paper deals with pragmatic inference from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In particular, we examine a specific variety of inferences – the attribution of incompetence which Self constructs on the basis of Other's prior action, hearable as positioning Self as incompetent (e.g., instructions, offers of assistance, advice); this attribution of incompetence concerns Self's execution of some practical task. This inference is indexed in Self's response, which highlights Self's expertise, or competence concerning the task at hand. We focus on two recurrent types of such responses in our data: (i) accounting for competence through formulations of prior experience with carrying out a practical action and (ii) explicit claims of competence for accomplishing this action. We analyze the interactional environments in which these responses occur, the ways in which the two practices index Self's understanding of being positioned as incompetent and the interactional work they do. Finally, we discuss how through rejecting an inferred attribution of incompetence, Self implicitly seeks to restore their face and defend their autonomy as an agent, yet, without entering an explicit identity-negotiation. Findings rest on the analysis of 20 cases found in video-recordings of naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German from the corpus FOLK.
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Deppermann2021h

2024-02-25T11:16:41Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Arnulf Deppermann; Alexandra Gubina
|Title=When the body belies the words: embodied agency with darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in German
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Agency; Embodiment; Request for action; Request for permission; Multimodal gestalt; Social Action Format; Lean Syntax; Projectability; Salience; intersubjective permissibility
|Key=Deppermann2021h
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Frontiers in Communication
|Volume=6
|Pages=Art. 661800
|URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.661800/full
|DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2021.661800
|Abstract=Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal relationships between verbal and embodied actions. We focus on uses of German darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in which speakers initiate, or even complete the embodied action that is addressed by the turn before the recipient's response. We argue that through such embodied conduct, the speaker bodily enacts high agency, which is at odds with the low deontic stance they express through their darf/kann ich?-TCUs. In doing so, speakers presuppose that the intersubjective permissibility of the action is highly probable or even certain. Moreover, we demonstrate how the speaker's embodied action, joint perceptual salience of referents, and the projectability of the action addressed with darf/kann ich? allow for a lean syntactic design of darf/kann ich?-TCUs (i.e., pronominalization, object omission, and main verb omission). Our findings underscore the reflexive relationship between lean syntax, sequential organization and multimodal conduct.
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Deppermann2021i

2024-02-25T11:13:48Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Arnulf Deppermann; Alexandra Gubina;
|Title=Positionally-sensitive action-ascription. Uses of Kannst du X? ‘can you X?’ in their sequential and multimodal context
|Tag(s)=EMCA; action-ascription; German; question; modal verbs; request; Conversation Analysis; Interactional Linguistics; positionally-sensitive grammar; Action Formation; Social action format
|Key=Deppermann2021i
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Interactional Linguistics
|Volume=1
|Number=2
|Pages=183–215
|URL=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/il.21005.dep
|DOI=10.1075/il.21005.dep
|Abstract=Schegloff (1996) has argued that grammars are “positionally-sensitive”, implying that the situated use and understanding of linguistic formats depends on their sequential position. Analyzing the German format Kannst du X? (corresponding to English Can you X?) based on 82 instances from a large corpus of talk-in-interaction (FOLK), this paper shows how different action-ascriptions to turns using the same format depend on various orders of context. We show that not only sequential position, but also epistemic status, interactional histories, multimodal conduct, and linguistic devices co-occurring in the same turn are decisive for the action implemented by the format. The range of actions performed with Kannst du X? and their close interpretive interrelationship suggest that they should not be viewed as a fixed inventory of context-dependent interpretations of the format. Rather, the format provides for a root-interpretation that can be adapted to local contextual contingencies, yielding situated action-ascriptions that depend on constraints created by contexts of use.
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Gubina/Betz 2021

2024-02-25T11:12:25Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexandra Gubina; Emma Betz;
|Title=What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Newsmark; Response space; Response; Account; Reconfirmation; Elaboration; Request for confirmation; Acceptability; Challenge; News marking
|Key=GubinaBetz2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Research On Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=54
|Number=4
|Pages=374-396
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08351813.2021.1974745
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a) invite simple reconfirmation, (b) invite topical elaboration, or
(c) solicit an account either to reconcile diverging expectations or to manage problems in acceptability. We demonstrate how both the design of echt-turns and participants’ epistemic positioning matter to how echt-turns are treated and shape interactional trajectories. By using the notion of “inviting” a next action, we highlight the importance of conceptualizing response relevance after second-position actions, and specifically after “newsmark-type” responses, as a gradient. Data are taken from everyday and institutional interaction and presented in German with English translations.
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Gubina/Betz 2021

2024-02-25T11:09:35Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexandra Gubina; Emma Betz;
|Title=What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Newsmark; Response space; Response; Account; Reconfirmation; Elaboration; Request for confirmation; Acceptability; Challenge; News marking
|Key=Gubina/Betz2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Research On Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=54
|Number=4
|Pages=374-396
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08351813.2021.1974745
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a) invite simple reconfirmation, (b) invite topical elaboration, or
(c) solicit an account either to reconcile diverging expectations or to manage problems in acceptability. We demonstrate how both the design of echt-turns and participants’ epistemic positioning matter to how echt-turns are treated and shape interactional trajectories. By using the notion of “inviting” a next action, we highlight the importance of conceptualizing response relevance after second-position actions, and specifically after “newsmark-type” responses, as a gradient. Data are taken from everyday and institutional interaction and presented in German with English translations.
}}

Gubina/Betz 2021

2024-02-25T11:05:24Z

AlexandraGubina:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexandra Gubina; Emma Betz;
|Title=What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt
|Tag(s)=EMCA; newsmark; response space; response; account; reconfirmation; topical elaboration; request for confirmation; acceptability; challenge
|Key=Gubina/Betz2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Research On Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=54
|Number=4
|Pages=374-396
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08351813.2021.1974745
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a) invite simple reconfirmation, (b) invite topical elaboration, or
(c) solicit an account either to reconcile diverging expectations or to manage problems in acceptability. We demonstrate how both the design of echt-turns and participants’ epistemic positioning matter to how echt-turns are treated and shape interactional trajectories. By using the notion of “inviting” a next action, we highlight the importance of conceptualizing response relevance after second-position actions, and specifically after “newsmark-type” responses, as a gradient. Data are taken from everyday and institutional interaction and presented in German with English translations.
}}

Gubina/Betz 2021

2024-02-25T11:01:11Z

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REMINDER: International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (ICCAP24) in Mannheim

2023-11-07T15:23:29Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (ICCAP24) in Mannheim: CALL FOR PAPERS (Reminder!)
|Short title=ICCAP24: CfP
|Short summary=CALL FOR PAPERS! 13-15 March 2024, International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (ICCAP24) in Mannheim. Submission deadline: November, 24th, 2023.
|Announcement text=CALL FOR PAPERS

Psychotherapy, arguably, is a type of social interaction in which participants adopt a longitudinal perspective. For therapists and clients alike, the raison d’être of psychotherapy is to work together towards a better life of the patient. This can mean solving psychological problems, overcoming unwanted symptoms, coping with life events, enhancing client’s resources to deal with personality disorders, etc. In all of these cases, change to the better will be the criterion for therapeutic success. Psychotherapy research so far has tried to verify change by way of outcome measures, mostly questionnaires. However, both therapists and clients orient to the psychotherapeutic process itself as an arena in which change becomes manifest in various ways. Changes in the therapeutic relationship, in clients‘ storylines, in their emotional responses, the ways in which they display resistance and many other discursive phenomena provide for endogenous metrics of therapeutic change, which are perceived, discussed and evaluated by the parties. Moreover, therapists will be interested in which ways specific strategies of therapeutic work further or rather inhibit change in the client.

With its microanalytic focus on observable verbal and embodied action and with its temporal perspective on unfolding therapeutic interactions, Conversation Analysis is ideally equipped to uncover therapeutic change and the effect of therapeutic work, as they become manifest in transformative sequences (Peräkylä 2019). In contrast to most other work in CA, however, the perspective on change requires to go beyond individual sequences of interaction and to consider cross-sequential and cross-event relationships between moments of psychotherapeutic sessions.

ICCAP24 will zoom in on how therapeutic change manifests itself in therapeutic interaction and how the interactional work by both therapists and patients makes change possible. The conference invites contributions dealing with different aspects of therapeutic change from a conversation analytic perspective. Among others, relevant topics include:

Conversation-analytic criteria for identifying change
Longitudinal developments in psychotherapy indexing and leading to change
Therapists‘ discursive strategies enabling and supporting change in the client
Changes in interactional patterns in the therapy
Changes in client’s displays of affect
Changes in client’s self-interpretation (e.g., ascription of agency, illness theories)
The conference invites contributions from all researchers pursuing a conversation-analytic approach working on psychotherapy and related kinds of interaction (such as counselling and coaching). Contributions relating to the conference theme are particularly welcome, but talks may also deal with other matters in the field of Conversation Analysis and psychotherapy.

Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system through the following submission web page by *November, 24th, 2023*:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccap24

For more information on the conference, please visit our website:
https://www.ids-mannheim.de/prag/interaktion/manifestation-widerstand-psychotherapie/iccap24/
|Year=2024
|Web link=https://www.ids-mannheim.de/prag/interaktion/manifestation-widerstand-psychotherapie/iccap24/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2024/03/13
|To date=2024/03/15
|Address=Leibniz Institute for the German Language
|Location=49.48801, 8.47222
|Abstract due=2023/11/24
|Submission deadline=2023/11/24
|Notification date=2024/01/08
}}