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VanHengel2025

2026-07-27T11:59:47Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=VanHengel2025
|Key=VanHengel2025
|Title=Pre-empting concerns about child vaccination: How nurses anticipatorily address parental concerns about “new” vaccines
|Author(s)=Lieve van Hengel; Bogdana Humă; Hedwig te Molder;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Medical EMCA; Pre-emption; Child vaccination; Healthcare; Home visits; Self-repair; Accounts; Contrast formulations; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=dec
|Journal=SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
|Volume=8
|Pages=
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321525001192
|DOI=10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100641
|Abstract=As childhood vaccination rates are declining, healthcare professionals’ conversations with parents are increasingly important for navigating a diverse set of concerns about vaccination. This article uses Conversation Analysis to illustrate that and how Dutch nurses pre-empt parental concerns that could be the basis for vaccination refusal during home visits to parents of newborn babies. We analysed 41 conversations recorded in the Netherlands between February and December 2024 in which the then recently introduced rotavirus vaccine is discussed. We identified three resources which nurses use to pre-empt concerns regarding the novelty and administration mode of the rotavirus vaccine: (1) self-initiated self-repairs, (2) contrast formulations and (3) accounts. By pre-empting parental concerns, nurses anticipatorily rule out possible (mis)interpretations of what they said and steer parents towards more apposite interpretations. Crucially, pre-emption work occurs before parental concerns have been explicitly voiced and at the beginning of the presentation of the vaccine by the nurse. Our findings suggest two key tensions within this pre-emption work: (1) a progressivity paradox – where pre-empting slows down progressivity locally while promoting overall progressivity and (2) a concern paradox – in which by anticipatorily addressing parental concerns, nurses may inadvertently suppress their articulation by parents.
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PhD Position at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2026-07-26T08:08:33Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Job
|Full title=PhD Position at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
|Short title=PhD position
|Short summary=4-year PhD position at Radboud University (Nijmegen). EMCA & MCA candidates are welcome. Application deadline: 15/09/26. More info: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-position-at-the-centre-for-language-studies
|Announcement text=The Centre for Language Studies (CLS) at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands) has one 4-year PhD position open for candidates with a background in a discipline related to CLS. Candidates interested in pursuing an EMCA & MCA PhD are warmly encouraged to apply. Application deadline: 15th of September 2026. More details about the position are available here: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-position-at-the-centre-for-language-studies.
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-position-at-the-centre-for-language-studies
|Categories (tags)=PhD; EMCA; MCA; Radboud; Netherlands
|From date=2026/07/26
|To date=2026/09/15
|Address=Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
|Location=51.84488, 5.84283
|Submission deadline=2026/09/15
}}

Huma2019

2026-07-05T23:39:12Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2019
|Key=Huma2019
|Title=Persuasive conduct. Alignment and resistance in prospecting 'cold' calls
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Elizabeth H. Stokoe; Rein Ove Sikveland;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; sales encounters; cold calls; persuasion; business-to-business; preambles; pre-expansions; requests; preference organisation
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2019
|Journal=Journal of Language and Social Psychology
|Volume=38
|Number=1
|Pages=33–60
|DOI=10.1177/0261927X18783474
}}

Huma2018

2026-07-05T23:37:05Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:37:05

{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2018
|Key=Huma2018
|Title=The interactional organisation of initial business-to-business sales calls with prospective clients
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; sales encounters; business-to-business; cold calls; persuasion; resistance; third-party references; overall structural organisation
|BibType=PHDTHESIS
|School=Loughborough University
|Year=2018
|Month=jan
|URL=https://hdl.handle.net/2134/34698
|Abstract=The aim of this thesis is to break new ground by investigating the interactional organisation of real events that comprise live business-to-business cold calls. Despite being a ubiquitous part of everyday life, we know very little about how cold calls are initiated, progressed, and completed. Cold calls are unsolicited telephone encounters, initiated by salespeople aiming to get prospective clients ( prospects ) interested in their services, with the distal goal of turning them into clients and the proximal goal of getting them to agree to an initial meeting. Cold calls are often treated as a nuisance by call-takers, and salespeople must deal with reluctant gatekeepers, recurrent sales resistance, and the occasional hang-up. The training they receive often draws on outdated theories of communication and is rarely supported by empirical evidence. Thus, this study not only addresses an important domain for interactional research, but also fulfils a practical necessity for empirical research that will inform sales training and improve callers and call-takers experiences. The data comprise 150 recorded calls supplied by three British companies that sell, service, and lease office equipment. The data were collected, transcribed, and analysed within an ethnomethodological framework using conversation analysis and discursive psychology. The first analytic chapter outlines the overall structural organisation of cold calling. It documents the constituent activities within the opening, the business of the call, and the closing. It identifies and describes two types of cold calls. Freezing calls are initiated by salespeople who are contacting a prospect for the very first time. Lukewarm calls feature salespeople who claim to have been in contact with the prospect s organisation in the past. The second chapter excavates the initial turns of lukewarm calls in which salespeople ask to speak to another person within the company, with whom they indicate to be acquainted. The analysis revealed that this third-party acquaintanceship was crucial for establishing the legitimacy of the switchboard request and for improving the chances of getting it granted. The third chapter focused on appointment-making sequences in both freezing and lukewarm calls, showing that they comprise two components: a preamble and a meeting request sequence. I also highlight how salespeople exploit sequential and turn-taking mechanisms to secure meetings with prospects without giving the latter the opportunity to refuse. The final chapter examines two practices for enacting resistance in cold calls blocks and stalls and documents the range of methods salespeople employ for dealing with each type of resistance. Sales blocks expose the salesperson s commercial agenda, attempt to stop the prospecting activity, and move towards call pre-closure. In response, salespeople can challenge, counter, or circumvent blocks as well as redo their initiating actions. Stalls slow down the progress of the sales process by delaying the next phase of the sale or by proposing less commitment-implicative alternatives. Salespeople deal with stalls by either justifying their initial proposal or by spontaneously introducing new action plans, both being more conducive to the progress of the sale. The thesis contributes to a growing body of interactional research on commercial encounters by shedding empirical light on a previously unexamined setting, business-to-business cold calls. It also moves forward discursive psychology s project of respecifying psychological phenomena by documenting the communicative practices associated with persuasion and resistance. Finally, it expands the extant conversation analytic toolkit by examining new practices (such as appointment-making) and by providing new insights into key conversation analytic topics (such as requests, pre-sequences, and accounts for calling). Overall, the findings presented in this thesis challenge existing conceptions of prospecting through cold calling that are prevalent in the sales literature. The thesis puts forward a strong argument for opening the black box of cold calls to better understand these interactions and to identify good practices as the basis for communication training. Research presented in this thesis has already been used in the development of CARM (Conversation Analytic Role-play Method) training for salespeople, who reported having doubled their appointment rates. Based on the findings in this thesis, I plan to develop further training not only for salespeople but also for prospective customers, thus improving the overall outcome of cold call encounters.
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Huma2020c

2026-07-05T23:35:01Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:35:01

{{BibEntry
|Key=huma2020c
|Key=huma2020c
|Title=The anatomy of first-time and subsequent business-to-business ‘cold' calls
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Elizabeth Stokoe;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; sales encounters; telesales; business-to-business; cold calls; overall structural organisation; project
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2020
|Journal=Research on Language \& Social Interaction
|Volume=53
|Number=2
|Pages=271–294
|DOI=10.1080/08351813.2020.1739432
}}

Stokoe2020c

2026-07-05T23:29:58Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:29:57

{{BibEntry
|Key=Stokoe2020c
|Key=Stokoe2020c
|Title=Sacks, categories, language, and gender
|Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Bogdana Humă; Derek Edwards;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Membership Categorisation Analysis; gender; Sacks
|Editor(s)=Robin Smith; Richard Fitzgerald; William Housely;
|Booktitle=On Sacks. Methodology, materials, and inspirations
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Publisher=Routledge
|Year=2020
|Pages=62–76
}}

Stokoe2020b

2026-07-05T23:29:05Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:29:05

{{BibEntry
|Key=Stokoe2020b
|Key=Stokoe2020b
|Title=When delayed responses are productive: Being persuaded following resistance in conversation
|Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Bogdana Humă; Rein O. Sikveland; Heidi Kevoe-Feldman;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; persuasion; resistance; gaps; preference organisation; contiguity; alignment; progressivity
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2020
|Month=jan
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=155
|Pages=70–82
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2019.10.001
|Abstract=Conversation analysts have long since demonstrated that, in responding to an initiating action (e.g., question), recipients have at least two ways to respond; response options (e.g., answer, non-answer) are not equivalent, and ‘preferred’ responses are typically delivered more rapidly than ‘dispreferred’ responses. This paper examines cases in which ‘preferred’ responses, which progress the preceding actions in productive alignment, are delayed. We combined and analysed four British and American English datasets: mediators talking to potential clients; police negotiators talking to suicidal persons in crisis; calls to emergency services from suicidal persons, and salespeople talking to potential customers. Our analysis revealed that, when one party has resisted the project of the other, delay may indicate an upcoming productive response. Such delays break the sequence's contiguity, thus producing (some) structural independence from a previously dismissed course of action and enabling the speaker to maintain (some) ‘face’, in Goffman's terms. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding alignment and preference in conversation analysis, and the practices of resistance and persuasion more generally.
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Huma2021

2026-07-05T23:27:05Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:27:05

{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2021
|Key=Huma2021
|Title=Vocabularies of social influence: Managing the moral accountability of influencing another
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Elizabeth Stokoe; Rein Ove Sikveland;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; persuasion; social influence; conviction; morality
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
|Year=2021
|Month=apr
|Journal=British Journal of Social Psychology
|Volume=60
|Number=2
|Pages=319–339
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12409
|DOI=10.1111/bjso.12409
|Abstract=While there are many definitions and conceptual accounts of ‘persuasion’ and other forms of social influence, social scientists lack empirical insight into how and when people actually use terms like ‘persuade’, ‘convince’, ‘change somebody's mind’ – what we call the vocabularies of social influence – in actual social interaction. We collected instances of the spontaneous use of these and other social influence terms (such as ‘schmoozing’ and ‘hoodwinking’) in face-to-face and telephone conversations across multiple domestic and institutional settings. The recorded data were transcribed and analysed using discursive psychology and conversation analysis with a focus on the actions accomplished in and through the use of social influence terms. We found that when speakers use 'persuading' – but not 'convincing' or 'changing somebody’s mind' – it is in the service of orienting to the moral accountability of influencing others. The specificity with which social actors deploy these terms demonstrates the continued importance of developing our understandings of the meaning of words – especially psychological ones – via their vernacular use by ordinary people in the first instance, rather than have psychologists reify, operationalize, and build an architecture for social psychology without paying attention to what people actually do with the ‘psychological thesaurus’.
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VanDerHeijden2022

2026-07-05T23:25:19Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:25:19

{{BibEntry
|Key=VanDerHeijden2022
|Key=VanDerHeijden2022
|Title=To like or not to like: Negotiating food assessments of children from families with a low socioeconomic position
|Author(s)=Amy van der Heijden; Hedwig te Molder; Bogdana Humă; Gerry Jager;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; assessments; family; mealtimes; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=Academic Press
|Year=2022
|Journal=Appetite
|Volume=170
|DOI=10.1016/J.APPET.2021.105853
|Abstract=The present study explored how primary school-aged children from families with a low socioeconomic position produce ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ of foods during everyday family meals, and how these (dis)likes are understood and treated by their parents. It is crucial to understand how food preferences develop in the course of everyday life, as it is known that there are socioeconomic disparities in food preference and consumption, and that children from families with a low socioeconomic position have relatively poorer diets. Deploying an interactional approach to food preference, video recordings of 79 evening meals in families with a low socioeconomic position were analyzed using discursive psychology and conversation analysis. The analysis highlighted that children's food likes and dislikes were treated differently by their parents. While likes were routinely not responded to, agreed with or further elaborated, dislikes were predominantly oriented to as food refusals or treated as inappropriate, or non-genuine claims. Children's food assessments, i.e., likes and dislikes, were often disattended by parents when they appeared to be food preference displays. By contrast, assessments that accomplished social actions like refusals and complaints were more often responded to. The analysis also revealed the importance of distinguishing between assessments about food items in general, that were not currently being eaten, and assessments of food eaten here-and-now. All in all, the study evidences that and how assessment sequences open up interactional spaces where children and parents orient to and negotiate relative rights and responsibilities to know, to assess and to accomplish specific actions. Implications for food preference research are discussed.
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Huma2022

2026-07-05T23:22:22Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Jack B. Joyce;
|Title='One size doesn't fit all': Lessons from interaction analysis on tailoring Open Science practices to qualitative research
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Open Science; interaction analysis; discursive psychology; replicability; reproducibility; Open Data; transparency
|Key=Huma2022
|Year=2023
|Language=English
|Journal=British Journal of Social Psychology
|Volume=62
|Number=4
|Pages=1590-1604
|URL=https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjso.12568
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12568
|Abstract=The Open Science Movement aims to enhance the soundness, transparency, and accessibility of scientific research, and at the same time increase public trust in science. Currently, Open Science practices are mainly presented as solutions to the ‘reproducibility crisis’ in hypothetico-deductive quantitative research. Increasing interest has been shown towards exploring how these practices can be adopted by qualitative researchers. In reviewing this emerging body of work, we conclude that the issue of diversity within qualitative research has not been adequately addressed. Furthermore, we find that many of these endeavours start with existing solutions for which they are trying to find matching problems to be solved. We contrast this approach with a natural incorporation of Open Science practices within interaction analysis and its constituent research traditions: conversation analysis, discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, and membership categorisation analysis. Zooming in on the development of conversation analysis starting in the 1960s, we highlight how practices for opening up and sharing data and analytic thinking have been embedded into its methodology. On the basis of this presentation, we propose a series of lessons learned for adopting Open Science practices in qualitative research.
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Huma2023h

2026-07-05T23:20:09Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:20:09

{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2023h
|Key=Huma2023h
|Title=Discursive psychology
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Jonathan Potter;
|Tag(s)=Discursive Psychology; methodology; discursive action model; persuasion
|Editor(s)=Michael Handford; James Paul Gee;
|Booktitle=The Routledge handbook of discourse analysis
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Publisher=Routledge
|Address=London
|Year=2023
|Pages=53–66
|DOI=10.4324/9781003035244-6
}}

VanDerHeijden2023

2026-07-05T23:18:57Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=VanDerHeijden2023
|Key=VanDerHeijden2023
|Title=Healthy food talk as action in everyday mealtime conversations of families with a low socioeconomic position
|Author(s)=Amy van der Heijden; Hedwig te Molder; Bogdana Humă; Gerry Jager;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; family; mealtimes; low socioeconomic positionl healthy eating; assessments; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=Elsevier
|Year=2023
|Journal=SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
|Volume=3
|URL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2667321523000379
|DOI=10.1016/J.SSMQR.2023.100253
}}

Huma2023f

2026-07-05T23:15:30Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă;
|Title=Language and persuasion: A discursive psychological approach
|Tag(s)=EMCA; discursive psychology; persuasion; language; message effects; conduit model of communication; social cognition; social interaction
|Key=Huma2023f
|Year=2023
|Journal=Social and Personality Psychology Compass
|Volume=17
|Number=6
|DOI=10.1111/SPC3.12755
|Abstract=Across the social sciences, there is a wealth of research on the role of language in persuasion in interpersonal communication. Most of these studies have been conducted in laboratories using experimental methods, have taken a social cognitive perspective, and have focused on the effects of particular linguistic practices on how persuasive messages are understood, processed, and ultimately complied with. By contrast, less attention has been paid to how language can be used to create sequential, interactional, and social obligations, in everyday interactions, like sales encounters or business negotiations, where persuasion occurs naturally and is built into the fabric of the conversation. In reviewing the former approach to studying language and persuasion, in this paper, I highlight several critical shortcomings. Then, I argue that, when studying naturally occurring persuasion-in-interaction, a discursive psychological approach is better suited for investigating and theorising the interactional structures underpinning persuasion and the role of language therein.
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Huma2023g

2026-07-05T23:11:56Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:11:56

{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2023g
|Key=Huma2023g
|Title=Resistance in business-to-business “cold” sales calls
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Elizabeth Stokoe;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; sales encounters; cold calls; business-to-business; blocks; stalls; progressivity
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2023
|Month=jul
|Journal=Journal of Language and Social Psychology
|Volume=42
|Number=5-6
|Pages=630–652
|URL=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0261927X231185520
|DOI=10.1177/0261927X231185520
|Abstract=In “cold” sales calls, the salesperson's job is to turn call-takers, or “prospects,” into clients while, very often, the latter resist them. In contrast to laboratory-based research, “cold” calls provide a natural environment where the stakes are real and resistance is manifest. We collected and transcribed 159 “cold” calls the goal of which was for salespeople to secure an appointment to meet prospects. Using discursive psychology and conversation analysis, we identified two practices—“blocks” and “stalls”—through which prospects resisted salespeople's attempts to schedule a sales appointment while also moving to terminate the interaction or delay the scheduling of an eventual appointment. Our findings show that, when approached as an interactive and situated discursive accomplishment, rather than a cognitive process, the practices involved in resisting can be better identified, described, and shared in ways that transform our understanding of resistance as a social psychological phenomenon.
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Huma2023f

2026-07-05T23:09:17Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:09:17

{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2023f
|Key=Huma2023f
|Title=What does “resistance” actually look like? The respecification of resistance as an interactional accomplishment
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă; Jack B. Joyce; Geoffrey Raymond;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; resistance; progressivity; respecification; discursive psychology
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2023
|Month=aug
|Journal=Journal of Language and Social Psychology
|Volume=42
|Number=5-6
|Pages=497–522
|DOI=10.1177/0261927X231185525
|Note=Publisher: SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA
|Abstract=In this introductory article to the special issue on Resistance in Talk-in-Interaction, we review the vast body of research that has respecified resistance by investigating it as and when it occurs...
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Slots2025

2026-07-05T23:07:47Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Leonie Slots; Bogdana Humă; Hedwig te Molder; Marjolein den Ouden; Ellen Oosterkamp-Szwajcer; Geke Ludden;
|Title=How community nurses handle concerns voiced by older adults: A conversation analytic study
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Medical EMCA; social work; nurses; older adults; home care; autonomy; self-management; concernDutch
|Key=Slots2025
|Year=2025
|Month=dec
|Journal=International Journal of Nursing Studies
|Volume=76
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020748925003360
|DOI=10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105326
|Abstract=Background Community nurses play an important role in supporting older adults who live at home by encouraging self-determination, autonomy, and self-management, all of which are becoming increasingly important in home care. This study aims to identify and describe the ways in which community nurses deal with the concerns raised by older adults, who live independently at home with care support. Data and method We analysed a corpus of 21 recorded conversations that took place during home visits conducted in a large Dutch city between 2020 and 2022. To examine the data, we used conversation analysis, an inductive qualitative approach that is particularly suited to the analysis of real-life interactions, including healthcare interactions. Analysis We identified three different trajectories that characterise how community nurses handle clients' concerns and that yield distinct outcomes. The exploratory trajectory is characterised by nurses stimulating clients both to identify the cause or source of the concern as well as a solution to it. By contrast, the presumptive trajectory involves nurses proposing solutions themselves, while leaving the origins of the concern unexplored. Finally, the reassuring trajectory entails nurses normalising the concern which leads to clients volunteering possible remedies that they have already implemented. Conclusion Our findings highlight the crucial role of language in how concerns of clients are constructed during home visits and the importance of community nurses in shaping how those concerns unfold and get resolved.
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Wiggins2026b

2026-07-05T23:07:03Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Bogdana Humă;
|Title=Resisting eating during a family mealtime: The moral and identity work of food refusal
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; social influence; persuasion; resistance; identity work; family; mealtime; single case analysis
|Key=Wiggins2026b
|Year=2026
|Journal=British Journal of Social Psychology
|Volume=65
|Number=1
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjso.70029
|DOI=10.1111/bjso.70029
|Abstract=Recent developments within social influence research have demonstrated how resistance is temporally and sequentially accomplished within social interaction. The everyday morality of trying to get another person to do something against their will has, however, not been fully explored. Using the example of a sequence from a family mealtime, this paper illustrates how a concept typically understood as an individual concern – food refusal – can be reframed as a social phenomenon involving the delicate management of local identities and moral responsibilities. The study uses a single case analysis of a video-recorded interaction from a UK family mealtime. Using discursive psychology and conversation analysis, we demonstrate that food refusal can be examined as interactional resistance, with different forms of resistance embedded within diverging action trajectories. The analysis illustrates an instance of ‘reluctant compliance’, involving a complex configuration of complying with a directive while simultaneously displaying unwillingness to do so. Finally, we highlight that dealing with resistance within the family mealtime involves the management of local identities and the moral sensitivity of claiming deontic authority over another person's food consumption. The analysis has implications not only for research on resistance and food refusal but also for the everyday accomplishment of social influence within families.
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Wiggins2026c

2026-07-05T23:05:45Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Bogdana Humă;
|Title=How to do discursive psychology: A concise guide
|Tag(s)=Discursive Psychology; methodology; qualitative methods; discursive devices
|Key=Wiggins2026c
|Year=2026
|Journal=Qualitative Psychology
|DOI=10.1037/qup0000352
|Abstract=For those who wish to learn how to “do” Discursive Psychology (DP), there are book chapters and textbooks that provide detailed explanations. What is missing, however, is a concise hands-on guide to enable novices to quickly become familiar with the analytic stages of DP. This article addresses this need and illustrates the processes of how to conduct a DP analysis using a worked example from our own research. The article differs from other “how to” methods chapters in two ways. First, we combine theoretical considerations and methods in one, clarifying why a specific technique is used alongside how it is used. The epistemological assumptions underpinning DP are thus explicated in reference to each of the analytical steps. The second difference is that the article reveals the behind-the-scenes work of a published piece of analysis. The article is written as an active dialogue with footnoted comments and discussions about decisions made throughout the analytic process. This article thus aims not only to provide a concise guide to DP analysis but also to increase transparency and demystify methodological procedures. Aimed at novice researchers, the article furthermore seeks to advance DP through increasing its accessibility to a wider audience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
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Potter2024

2026-07-05T23:04:52Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:04:52

{{BibEntry
|Key=Potter2024
|Key=Potter2024
|Title=Ensuring quality: The power and potential of naturally occurring data in the social sciences
|Author(s)=Jonathan Potter; Bogdana Humă;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; methodology; quality; rigour; transparency; integrity; credibility; naturally occurring data
|Editor(s)=Uwe Flick;
|Booktitle=SAGE handbook of qualitative research quality
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Publisher=Sage
|Year=2024
|Pages=185–200
}}

Ridley2024

2026-07-05T23:03:41Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:03:41

{{BibEntry
|Key=Ridley2024
|Key=Ridley2024
|Title=Porridge and misogyny: Rationalising inconspicuous misogyny in morning television shows
|Author(s)=Anna Ridley; Bogdana Humă; Linda Walz;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Feminist CA; Discursive Psychology; misogyny; sexism; prejudice; inequalities; -isms; morning television shows
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Feminism & Psychology
|Volume=34
|Number=2
|Pages=228–250
|DOI=10.1177/09593535231197526
}}

Huma2025b

2026-07-05T23:01:39Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2026-07-05 05:01:39

{{BibEntry
|Key=Huma2025b
|Key=Huma2025b
|Title=Preference organisation and turn design as interactional resources for persuasion in telesales
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; preference organisation; turn design; persuasion; requests; sales encounters; cold calls; business-to-business
|Editor(s)=Daria Dayter; Sofia Rüdiger;
|Booktitle=Manipulation, influence, and deception: The changing landscape of persuasive language
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Publisher=Cambridge University Press
|Address=Cambridge, UK
|Year=2025
}}

Wiggins2026c

2026-07-05T22:59:48Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Wiggins2026c
|Key=Wiggins2026c
|Title=How to do discursive psychology: A concise guide
|Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Bogdana Humă;
|Tag(s)=Discursive Psychology; methodology; qualitative methods; discursive devices
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=Educational Publishing Foundation
|Address=US
|Year=2026
|Journal=Qualitative Psychology
|DOI=10.1037/qup0000352
|Abstract=For those who wish to learn how to “do” Discursive Psychology (DP), there are book chapters and textbooks that provide detailed explanations. What is missing, however, is a concise hands-on guide to enable novices to quickly become familiar with the analytic stages of DP. This article addresses this need and illustrates the processes of how to conduct a DP analysis using a worked example from our own research. The article differs from other “how to” methods chapters in two ways. First, we combine theoretical considerations and methods in one, clarifying why a specific technique is used alongside how it is used. The epistemological assumptions underpinning DP are thus explicated in reference to each of the analytical steps. The second difference is that the article reveals the behind-the-scenes work of a published piece of analysis. The article is written as an active dialogue with footnoted comments and discussions about decisions made throughout the analytic process. This article thus aims not only to provide a concise guide to DP analysis but also to increase transparency and demystify methodological procedures. Aimed at novice researchers, the article furthermore seeks to advance DP through increasing its accessibility to a wider audience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
}}

Slots2025

2026-07-05T22:56:57Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Slots2025
|Key=Slots2025
|Title=How community nurses handle concerns voiced by older adults: A conversation analytic study
|Author(s)=Leonie Slots; Bogdana Humă; Hedwig te Molder; Marjolein den Ouden; Ellen Oosterkamp-Szwajcer; Geke Ludden;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Medical EMCA; social work; nurses; older adults; home care; autonomy; self-management; concernDutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=dec
|Journal=International Journal of Nursing Studies
|Pages=105326
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020748925003360
|DOI=10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105326
|Abstract=Background Community nurses play an important role in supporting older adults who live at home by encouraging self-determination, autonomy, and self-management, all of which are becoming increasingly important in home care. This study aims to identify and describe the ways in which community nurses deal with the concerns raised by older adults, who live independently at home with care support. Data and method We analysed a corpus of 21 recorded conversations that took place during home visits conducted in a large Dutch city between 2020 and 2022. To examine the data, we used conversation analysis, an inductive qualitative approach that is particularly suited to the analysis of real-life interactions, including healthcare interactions. Analysis We identified three different trajectories that characterise how community nurses handle clients' concerns and that yield distinct outcomes. The exploratory trajectory is characterised by nurses stimulating clients both to identify the cause or source of the concern as well as a solution to it. By contrast, the presumptive trajectory involves nurses proposing solutions themselves, while leaving the origins of the concern unexplored. Finally, the reassuring trajectory entails nurses normalising the concern which leads to clients volunteering possible remedies that they have already implemented. Conclusion Our findings highlight the crucial role of language in how concerns of clients are constructed during home visits and the importance of community nurses in shaping how those concerns unfold and get resolved.
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Wiggins2026b

2026-07-05T22:54:35Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Wiggins2026b
|Key=Wiggins2026b
|Title=Resisting eating during a family mealtime: The moral and identity work of food refusal
|Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Bogdana Humă;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; social influence; persuasion; resistance; identity work; family; mealtime; single case analysis
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2026
|Journal=British Journal of Social Psychology
|Volume=65
|Number=1
|Pages=e70029
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjso.70029
|DOI=10.1111/bjso.70029
|Abstract=Recent developments within social influence research have demonstrated how resistance is temporally and sequentially accomplished within social interaction. The everyday morality of trying to get another person to do something against their will has, however, not been fully explored. Using the example of a sequence from a family mealtime, this paper illustrates how a concept typically understood as an individual concern – food refusal – can be reframed as a social phenomenon involving the delicate management of local identities and moral responsibilities. The study uses a single case analysis of a video-recorded interaction from a UK family mealtime. Using discursive psychology and conversation analysis, we demonstrate that food refusal can be examined as interactional resistance, with different forms of resistance embedded within diverging action trajectories. The analysis illustrates an instance of ‘reluctant compliance’, involving a complex configuration of complying with a directive while simultaneously displaying unwillingness to do so. Finally, we highlight that dealing with resistance within the family mealtime involves the management of local identities and the moral sensitivity of claiming deontic authority over another person's food consumption. The analysis has implications not only for research on resistance and food refusal but also for the everyday accomplishment of social influence within families.
}}

Wiggins2026

2026-07-05T22:53:13Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Leelo Keevallik;
|Title=Disgust at the Table: The Sequential Location and Production of Young Children's Food Disgust Expressions in the Home and Preschool
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Eating; Conversation analysis; In Press
|Key=Wiggins2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Research on Children and Social Interaction
|URL=https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/rcsi-2025-0006
|DOI=10.3138/rcsi-2025-0006
|Abstract=Children's understanding of disgust has been investigated experimentally from an individual perspective, but little is known about their expressions of disgust in everyday settings. Disgust has also been associated with, but not directly examined within, food refusal during mealtimes. Using a discursive psychological analysis of food disgust expressions in the home and preschool, this article examines how disgust becomes interactionally relevant at key moments within eating trajectories during everyday mealtimes. Data are taken from two corpora of video-recorded meals in Scotland (homes) and Sweden (preschool) with a focus on expressions such as bleurgh or ugh. The analyses evidence the production of children's disgust expressions at transitional moments during the meal, when food is brought to the table, to the plate, or to the mouth. The implications of the findings for work on disgust expressions and children's refusal of food during eating trajectories are discussed.
}}

Humă2025a

2026-07-05T22:52:04Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Humă2025a
|Key=Humă2025a
|Title=Pre-expansions
|Author(s)=Bogdana Humă;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; pre-expansions; pre-sequences; preference organisation; adjacency pairs; intersubjectivity; delicacy
|Editor(s)=Melisa Stevanovic;
|Booktitle=Research handbook of social interaction
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing
|Year=2025
|Pages=293–310
}}

Wen2026

2026-07-05T22:47:41Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Huazhen Wen; Xudan Cao;
|Title=Navigating conversations with autistic children: Maternal use of alternative questions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; adaptation; alternative questions; co-construction; question design; autism; Mandarin Chinese
|Key=Wen2026
|Year=2026
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=28
|Number=3
|Pages=502-521
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456251349141
|DOI=10.1177/14614456251349141
|Abstract=This study employs conversation analysis (CA) to examine how Chinese mothers deploy alternative questions (AQs) during interactions with their autistic children. This addresses a gap in research on the fine-grained dynamics of AQs within neurodivergent dyads in non-Western contexts. We analysed 176 AQ sequences across 21 video-recorded interactions. Findings reveal that maternal AQs facilitate interactional progressivity through structured choice-making and repair disengagement through multimodal resources and incremental formatting. Adaptive AQ designs empower children to negotiate constraints through transformative responses, topic shifts, and embodied resistance, underscoring bidirectional adaptation as central in neurodiverse communication. However, rigid AQs, marked by interactional asymmetry or mistimed turns, risk prioritising compliance over co-constructed participation, constraining opportunities for genuine engagement. Theoretically, the study reframes mutual understanding in autistic communication through the lens of CA, advocating reciprocal adaptation over unilateral conformity. Practically, it proposes flexible AQ designs attuned to autistic interactional rhythms and CA-informed caregiver training designed to enhance collaborative responsiveness.
}}

Wen2026

2026-07-05T22:47:04Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Wen2026
|Key=Wen2026
|Title=Navigating conversations with autistic children: Maternal use of alternative questions
|Author(s)=Huazhen Wen; Xudan Cao;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; medical EMCA; adaptation; alternative questions; co-construction; question design; autism; ndarin
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2026
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=28
|Number=3
|Pages=502-521
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456251349141
|DOI=10.1177/14614456251349141
|Abstract=This study employs conversation analysis (CA) to examine how Chinese mothers deploy alternative questions (AQs) during interactions with their autistic children. This addresses a gap in research on the fine-grained dynamics of AQs within neurodivergent dyads in non-Western contexts. We analysed 176 AQ sequences across 21 video-recorded interactions. Findings reveal that maternal AQs facilitate interactional progressivity through structured choice-making and repair disengagement through multimodal resources and incremental formatting. Adaptive AQ designs empower children to negotiate constraints through transformative responses, topic shifts, and embodied resistance, underscoring bidirectional adaptation as central in neurodiverse communication. However, rigid AQs, marked by interactional asymmetry or mistimed turns, risk prioritising compliance over co-constructed participation, constraining opportunities for genuine engagement. Theoretically, the study reframes mutual understanding in autistic communication through the lens of CA, advocating reciprocal adaptation over unilateral conformity. Practically, it proposes flexible AQ designs attuned to autistic interactional rhythms and CA-informed caregiver training designed to enhance collaborative responsiveness.
}}

Mangurkar2026

2026-07-05T22:44:14Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Mangurkar2026
|Key=Mangurkar2026
|Title=“Rather uncharacteristic of an Englishman to criticise plain food”: Invoking category entitlements in food assessments
|Author(s)=Isha Mangurkar; Sue Widdicombe;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; food assessments; culture; social media; small talk; discursive psychology; category membership; category entitlement
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2026
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=28
|Number=3
|Pages=466-481
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456251388898
|DOI=10.1177/14614456251388898
|Abstract=Discursive psychologists have shown how food assessments serve a variety of functions during mealtime interactions. Anthropological studies attest to the cultural significance of food and eating practices as reported through interviews and ethnographies. This study extends these literatures by studying food assessment in small talk on a social media platform. The data comprised 53 posts selected from an extended discussion on Twitter of a traditional south Indian dish which provoked a furore of media responses. Conversation and discursive psychological analysis showed how the initial food assessment was warranted and challenged by mobilising category-related knowledge and entitlement. In addition, cultural categories and humour were used to dismiss the permissibility of making an assessment. We conclude that the cultural significance of a particular food and the entitlement to assess it are practically accomplished, and that online small talk provides a useful context to study how and thereby make a novel contribution to the literature.
}}

Dalmaijer2025

2026-05-28T21:04:19Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Dalmaijer2025
|Key=Dalmaijer2025
|Title=How parents present therapeutic activities to health professionals through camerawork
|Author(s)=Evi Dalmaijer; Wyke Stommel; Berber Pas; Wilbert Spooren;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Camerawork; Remote care; Technology-enabled treatment (TET); Video-based assessment; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=nov
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=249
|Pages=175–192
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625002371
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.001
|Abstract=This study explores the interactional dynamics of technology-enabled treatments in which parents record their child for remote assessment by physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Focusing on parents of children with cerebral palsy, we examine how video recordings function as a visual tool for professional evaluation and coaching. Specifically, we analyze the variety of recording practices parents use to present therapeutic activities. Using an ethnomethodology-inspired microanalysis, we investigate the parents' camerawork when documenting treatment sessions at home. Data consist of videos uploaded to a digital platform. Findings highlight how parents actively shape what is assessed through filming choices, reflecting a form of ‘reflection in action.’ By analyzing video beginnings, endings, and camera-strategies, we identify variations in planned versus spontaneous filming approaches, as well as differences between manipulating the camera or the environment to optimize the camera view. The recording practices we identified contribute to better understanding of asynchronous remote care, revealing the critical role of parents in facilitating professional assessment and coaching through asynchronous video submissions. The findings underscore the evolving role of video in healthcare, particularly in remote and home-based treatments, where parents' visual documentation considerably impacts the course of the therapeutic process. We discuss how the dual role parents take on during TET blurs the lines between caregiving and professional practice. We highlight the flexibility and challenges faced by parents in integrating treatment into daily life while ensuring that the video content meets the presumed requirements and shed light on what parents present as relevant for the professionals to assess.
}}

Roodzant2026

2026-05-28T21:02:44Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Roodzant2026
|Key=Roodzant2026
|Title=Compliments in telephone and chat counselling
|Author(s)=Maartje Roodzant; Bogdana Humă; Wyke Stommel; Marie Rickert;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; compliments; chat; telephone calls; counselling; therepeutic relationship; Dutch;
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2026
|Month=feb
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=253
|Pages=42–56
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625002851
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.009
|Abstract=Nowadays, counselling is offered through various media, including chat, e-mail, and telephone. Across these media, counsellors strive to build a supportive relationship with their clients, while also upholding the service's institutional goals of providing information and advice. One resource for counsellors to achieve both outcomes is complimenting clients. While existing research highlights the contribution of compliments in various institutional settings for relational and interactional purposes, less is known about their use specifically within counselling contexts. This study aims to shed light on the use of compliments in counselling, zooming in on potential differences between chat and telephone counselling. We employed conversation analysis to examine counsellors' compliments in 57 chat logs and 40 recordings of telephone calls from a Dutch alcohol and drugs information service. Building on work showing that the affordances of different communication media shape the interactional unfolding of counselling sessions, we highlight how counsellors' deployment of compliments relates to such affordances, including medium-specific turn-taking systems and the (un)availability of paralinguistic resources. Our findings reveal that the affordances of chat enable counsellors to deliver specific types of compliments in a manner that does not interrupt the sequential progression of the session. Thus, we challenge the view that chat is less suitable for building a supportive relationship and therefore a less suitable medium for counselling.
}}

Schep2025

2026-05-28T20:41:33Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Schep2025
|Key=Schep2025
|Title=Everyday co-parenting in a polymedia environment: Negotiating when and how to talk about what in interconnected communication between professional foster parents and birth parents
|Author(s)=Ellen Schep; Keun Young Sliedrecht; Wyke Stommel;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Multimodal interaction; Co-parenting; (Professional) Foster Parents; Birth Parents; Interconnectedness' Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Children and Youth Services Review
|Volume=176
|Pages=108367
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740925002506
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108367
|Abstract=In this paper we analyse “interconnected communication sequences” between Professional Foster Parents (PFPs) and Birth Parents (BPs) in family-style group care. Interconnected communication sequences are coherent sequences constructed by participants by use of multiple communication media. In family-style group care, children live with PFPs and regularly visit their BPs, which implies PFPs and BPs share the care for children. This co-parenting relationship is important in supporting the quality of contact between child and parents, which is essential for the child’s development and wellbeing. However, a harmonious co-parenting relationship is difficult to achieve and maintain. To gain more insight in the intricacies of the complex PFP-BP relationship, we examine unfolding PFP-BP contact. Specifically, we examine two cases of instant messaging followed by a telephone call between PFPs and BPs. Our analysis disentangles how through text messaging PFPs and BPs propose to call for a particular reason and plan a call at an appropriate moment for both parties, and how they re-establish mutual availability in the call opening and collaboratively re-invoke the reason for calling. The negotiation of when to talk about what and how proves to be infused with relationship work and thereby instantiates some of the sensitivities of “co-parenting” in family-style group care. With our empirical analysis of everyday interconnected polymedia communication in different modalities (instant messaging and telephone interaction) in family-style group care, we aim to contribute to knowledge of interactional practices in the field of social work.
}}

Van der Wal2025

2026-05-28T20:34:17Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=van der Wal2025
|Key=van der Wal2025
|Title=‘Literatuuropvatting?’ Ander-herstel op initiatief van de leerling in mondelingen Nederlandse literatuur op de middelbare school
|Author(s)=Ester van der Wal; Wyke Stommel;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; other-initiated repair; trouble source; oral examination; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=Amsterdam University Press
|Year=2025
|Month=dec
|Journal=Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing
|Volume=47
|Number=3
|Pages=181–203
|URL=https://www.aup.online.com/content/journals/10.5117/TVT2025.03.001.VDWA
|DOI=10.5117/TVT2025.03.001.VDWA
|Abstract=Abstract ‘Concept of literature?’ Other-initiated repair by students during Dutch oral exams on literature Repair is a mechanism that is used to solve conversational trouble (Schegloff et al., 1977). This conversation-analytic study investigates other-initiations of repair by students during Dutch oral examinations about literature, and how responsibility for trouble is claimed or ascribed in the repair sequence. We found that the type of repair initiation used by the student affects how much conversational work the repair requires. Students mostly select a specific trouble source instead of using an open class repair initiation. Candidate understandings are solved quickly by the teacher, while partial repeats often require more repair work. Open class repair is rarely used by students and requires the most repair work. This work consists of providing additional information, providing hints, rephrasing the question or a combination of these. Sometimes, teachers explicitly take responsibility for the trouble by criticising their own question, which also functions as an account for abandoning the original question and producing a new one. By analysing students’ other-initiations of repair this study sheds light on how students and teachers identify trouble sources and collaborate towards an answer from the student.
}}

Wagelaar2025

2026-05-28T20:29:56Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Wagelaar2025
|Key=Wagelaar2025
|Title=The interactional consequences of asking for opinions about literature in Dutch oral exams
|Author(s)=Eline Wagelaar; Wyke Stommel; Jeroen Dera;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Oral examination; Test talk; Opinion; Assessment; Sequential organization; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Linguistics and Education
|Volume=88
|Pages=101445
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589825000622
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2025.101445
|Abstract=This study examines the interactional consequences of opinion-seeking questions in Dutch oral exams. In classroom interactions, presenting an opinion, a personal view on a topic, has been found to be produced with caution by students. Teachers do not evaluate the opinion but invite the student to elaborate, making room for, and acknowledging the student’s epistemic right to an opinion. This may be different in oral exams, because student responses to questions may be (treated as) ‘insufficient’ and thus have implications for the overall assessment. However, how teachers treat student opinions in oral exams, whether opinions are evaluated on the interactional level and how student opinions are followed up by teachers, have not yet been examined. Our data consist of 27 recordings of Dutch oral exams which we analyzed sequentially using conversation analysis. Based on 21 instances of opinion-seeking questions, we found that these questions serve as a stepping-stone for asking known-information questions (KIQs). Second, we found that opinion-seeking questions may serve as KIQs, regardless of their packaging as opinion elicitations. Despite the fact that an opinion lies in the student’s epistemic domain, teachers position themselves as having epistemic primacy, and students orient to being assessed. Although opinion-seeking questions may serve to organize the interaction around a particular book or effectively reassure students in a stressful situation by ascribing them epistemic rights to articulate an opinion, their use in and for oral exams is entirely different from opinions in classroom interaction and not straightforward.
}}

Sliederecht2025

2026-05-28T20:28:19Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Sliederecht2025
|Key=Sliederecht2025
|Title=“Shared care” through instant messaging updates in youth care; an interaction analysis
|Author(s)=Keun Young Sliedrecht; Wyke Stommel; Ellen Schep;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; WhatsApp; foster care; youth care; updates; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Qualitative Social Work
|Volume=23
|Number=2
|Pages=314-329
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221146739
|DOI=10.1177/14733250221146739
|Abstract=In this article, we analyse WhatsApp interactions in a youth care setting. In family-style group care, young people temporarily live in the family of professional foster parents (PFP), while they regularly visit their birth parents (BPs). Our data consist of instant messaging of 11 pairs of PFPs and BPs during 2 months. Using Conversation Analysis (CA), we focused on the social interaction between BPs and PFPs, achieved in and through multi-modally constructed sequences of updates—responses. First, updates are used by BPs in the context of the transfer from the child from/to the PFP marking the transfer of responsibility for the child. Second, PFPs use images as updates to provide BPs quasi-primary access to the experiences of the child. Third, updates are given or elicited in the context of prior problems. Across these functions, we observe that while BPs work to display responsibility, PFPs subtly empower BPs as parents.
}}

Stommel2024

2026-05-28T20:24:25Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Stommel2024
|Key=Stommel2024
|Title=“Gewoon gezellig effe een kwartiertje over je boeken praten”: verschillende gespreksactiviteiten in het Mondeling Nederlands op de middelbare school*: “Just a fun 15-minute chat about your books”; various interactional activities in the Dutch oral literature exam in secondary school
|Author(s)=Wyke Stommel; Jeroen Dera;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; education; oral exam; activities; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Month=dec
|Journal=Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing
|Volume=46
|Number=2/3
|Pages=76–91
|URL=https://www.aup.online.com/content/journals/10.5117/TVT2024.0203.002.STOM
|DOI=10.5117/TVT2024.0203.002.STOM
|Abstract=Abstract This study explores Dutch oral literature examinations (Mondeling Literatuur) in secondary education, which aim at eliciting an argumentative report of reading experiences on the basis of a selection of literary works. We examine the unfolding interaction within these exams, focusing on how teachers and students use various actions to construct distinct conversational activities. The data consist of 20 video recordings of oral exams from four secondary schools across the Netherlands and our analysis is based on Conversation Analysis. Our findings reveal that beyond the traditional question-answer format, alternative conversational activities emerge, namely more ordinary interaction about books and collaborative interpretation of literary works. Although asymmetries are inherent to the setting these activity types extend the exam beyond its traditional evaluative framework by transforming it into more symmetrical interaction. Through the analysis of prototypical examples of each activity type, this article highlights how Dutch literature exams evolve from formal assessment to shared literary exploration which still occasions pupils to display their knowledge.
}}

VanBurgsteden2025

2026-05-28T20:14:23Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=van Burgsteden2025
|Key=van Burgsteden2025
|Title=Whose Ethics? Negotiations and Consultations between CA Scholars and Ethical Assessment Boards
|Author(s)=L. van Burgsteden; W. Stommel; M. Huiskes; M. Rickert;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; ethics; online data; copyright; informed consent;
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=Routledge
|Year=2025
|Journal=Research on Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=58
|Number=2
|Pages=139–146
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2025.2484990
|DOI=10.1080/08351813.2025.2484990
}}

Rickert2025

2026-05-28T20:03:55Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Rickert2025
|Key=Rickert2025
|Title=“Please tell me” – The sequential organisation of audience participation in language learning livestreams
|Author(s)=Marie Rickert; Wyke Stommel;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Language learning livestreams; Audience participation; Sequential organisation; Self-directed learning; Learning technologies
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=241
|Pages=1-15
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625000529
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.013
|Abstract=In language learning livestreams, streamers integrate self-directed learning and community engagement with audience members in the chat who may, e.g., assist with language learning activities. This study analyses the sequential organisation of audience participation for language learning support in order to understand joint learning-related practices of streamers and audience members. Our analysis shows that livestreamers particularly recruit learning-related audience assistance when questions arise within their trajectory of self-directed learning. The form of audience participation ranges from brief informings, which frequently occur in larger-size livestreams, to scaffolding sequences in which one audience member engages with the livestreamer over the course of solving a learning task. When moving out of audience participation, livestreamers may perform assessments of the learnable or the learning process and/or praise the audience members who provided help, before moving back to expository talk. Streamers and audience members co-create a new hybrid format between self-directed learning and interactive learning with others who assume positions of peers, teachers, and spectators.
}}

Versteeg2025

2025-10-17T15:05:04Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Versteeg2025
|Key=Versteeg2025
|Title=All but naive: Patrolling epistemic territories in radio phone-ins
|Author(s)=Wytske Versteeg; Hedwig te Molder; Lotte van Burgsteden;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; certified expertise; contested expertise; personal experience; radio phone-ins; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=826–845
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241297374
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241297374
|Abstract=In this paper, we analysed Dutch and British radio phone-in conversations on ADHD and vaccination between radio hosts and callers, focusing on how interactants dispute the authority of both scientific and experiential claims to expertise. We found that interactants never challenged the authority of science and experience as such, but resisted their normative relevance. When callers offered expertise in the form of personal experience, hosts challenged its relevance for the overhearing audience by treating the experience as mere belief. When callers offered expertise in the form of scientific knowledge, hosts carefully patrolled the boundaries of ‘real’ science and who may speak for it. We discuss how our findings can explain the frequent contestation of factual sources in semi-public exchanges and offer a new perspective on the supposed diminished authority of scientific knowledge.
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Inbar2025

2025-10-17T15:03:57Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Inbar2025
|Key=Inbar2025
|Title=Teasing via the [lo, ki ‘no, because’ + ironic utterance] structure in Hebrew talk-in-interaction
|Author(s)=Anna Inbar; Yael Maschler;
|Tag(s)=Teasing; mockery; criticism; causality; adverbial clauses; irony; shared knowledge; Hebrew Interactional Linguistics; Multimodal Interaction Analysis
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=759–786
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241281723
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241281723
|Abstract=The current study elaborates on one mechanism through which teasing is accomplished in Hebrew interaction. Investigating naturally occurring casual conversation from the Haifa Multimodal Corpus of Spoken Hebrew, and employing the methodologies of Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Interaction Analysis, we explore a recurrent and recognizable practice used by Hebrew speakers – the deployment of lo ‘no’ followed by a ki ‘because’-prefaced ironic utterance. We suggest that the [lo, ki + ironic utterance] structure is a fixed format that encapsulates a practice of providing a teasing comment as a responsive action. We propose that via the use of this structure, speakers convey a negative stance of inappropriacy toward the previous action by appealing to knowledge that the recipient is obliged to know, while simultaneously mocking the recipient responsible for the inappropriacy and indirectly reproaching them for disregarding this knowledge, whether by failing to take it into account, or by a deliberate choice to ignore it.
}}

Davidson2025

2025-10-17T15:02:54Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Davidson2025
|Key=Davidson2025
|Title=Teachers’ use of reported habitual thoughts in research interviews
|Author(s)=Christina Davidson; Christine Edwards-Groves;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; habitual thoughts; interaction; interviews; reported thought
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=739–758
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241309177
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241309177
|Abstract=Use of reported thoughts in research interviews has rarely been examined although research interviews are a major source of data in qualitative research. This paper considers a conversation analytic examination of reported habitual thoughts, produced by twelve teachers during research interviews addressing their participation in a three-year action research study. Data are drawn from a collection of 137 reported thoughts and analysis establishes ways that habitual thoughts were used during interviews to report thought produced repetitively over time, rather than a thought produced on just one occasion. Habitual thoughts exhibited features identified with reported thoughts in other interactional environments but appeared particularly responsive to the local context produced through interviewer-interviewee interaction about the longitudinal research study that had required teachers to reflect on their established classroom practices and make changes to them.
}}

Caronia2025

2025-10-17T15:01:40Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Caronia2025
|Key=Caronia2025
|Title=Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers
|Author(s)=Letizia Caronia; Federica Ranzani; Vittoria Colla; Silvia Demozzi; Giulia Benericetti;
|Tag(s)=Discourse Analysis; children’s caregivers; community-oriented care; epistemic and deontic authority; helping professions; family-centered care; medical talk-in-interaction; pediatric visits; reported speech; Italian
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=718–738
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231184087
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231184087
|Abstract=Alliances between families and children’s institutional caregivers are considered crucial in granting children a healthy upbringing. This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on the interactional construction of epistemic and deontic alliances among present and evoked children’s caregivers. Adopting a discourse analysis approach to a corpus of 54 video-recorded pediatric visits, we analyze examples of complaint sequences where parents ‘ventriloquize’ the teachers’ voices and pursue an alliance with the pediatrician against the school’s practices or stance. We illustrate the local ratification of the pediatrician’s deontic authority over the teacher’s and the interactional accomplishment of (dis)alliances among the institutionally sanctioned caregivers. In the conclusion, we argue that this local system of deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances indexes the contemporary shift toward an individualized (or individualistic?) model of care and education, deaf to the collective demands and the need for relatively routinized practices that are at stake in any community.
}}

Alfahad2025

2025-09-05T07:04:33Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Alfahad2025
|Key=Alfahad2025
|Title=Challenging questions in Saudi press conferences
|Author(s)=Abdulrahman Alfahad;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; aggressiveness; Arabic media; media interaction; press conferences; questions; Arabic
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=4
|Pages=513-528
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241287367
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241287367
|Abstract=Press conferences that host high ranking officials have not been a common practice in Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, since 2020 this has changed clearly as Ministers have begun to appear in regular press conferences, a new format that requires examination and comparison to see the extent to which it is in line with the previous findings of this kind of interaction in western contexts. The current paper concentrates on examining the practice of challenging officials. The questions from these press conferences have been categorized using a framework that assesses aggressiveness through four aspects: initiative, directness, assertiveness, and hostility. The results show that journalists score a high level in the first dimension, but achieve generally low scores in the other three dimensions. The overall results indicate that journalists display a degree of initiative-taking and bring some concerns of the public to officials, but with a high proportion of cautious and non-assertive questions, an interaction system that avoids a high level of confrontation toward officials.
}}

Hutchby2025

2025-06-29T15:26:06Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Hutchby2025
|Key=Hutchby2025
|Title=Prospective expertise: The use of ‘listen’ in the discourse of television sports pundits
|Author(s)=Ian Hutchby;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; action-prefacing; broadcast talk; discourse markers; expertise; sports commentary
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=3
|Pages=399-414
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241276761
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241276761
|Abstract=This article details the functions of the imperative verb ‘listen’ in the pre-match build-up discussions of television football pundits. Data were recorded from live coverage of recent national and international football competitions. The analysis shows how ‘listen’ plays a role in what is referred to as prospective expertise: the work accomplished during the extensive pre-game build-up sections of a show, in which pundits engage in highlighting potential points of drama or sporting adversity to be anticipated in the game that is yet to be played. Three patterns are identified, in which different sequential positionings of ‘listen’ yield differing kinds of statements or evaluations, assessments, predictions and caveats regarding the forthcoming game.
}}

Liu2025

2025-06-29T15:24:27Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-06-29 09:24:27

{{BibEntry
|Key=Liu2025
|Key=Liu2025
|Title=An interactional linguistics study of Shi ba in Mandarin conversation
|Author(s)=Feng Liu;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; epistemic status; interactional functions; position in turns and sequences; prosodic manifestations; shi ba; Mandarin Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=3
|Pages=415-437
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241285897
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241285897
|Abstract=From the perspective of interactional linguistics and adopting the methodology of conversation analysis, this study explores some fine-grained interactional uses of shi ba in Mandarin conversation. It first classifies shi ba into unmarked and marked forms generally in terms of their prosodic manifestations with the assistance of Praat, the speech analysis tool. Then it demonstrates that the unmarked shi ba fulfills three interactional functions: requesting confirmation, seeking affiliation and maintaining floor; the marked shi ba registers dissatisfaction and displays affiliation. However, shi ba is basically a tag question, and serves to invite the recipient to proffer certain interactional response. The specific function that shi ba performs in conversation is tied to three decisive factors – its prosodic manifestations, position in specific turns and sequences as well as the relative epistemic status of interlocutors. The study also suggests that there lies a common motivation for the emergence of various interactional functions of shi ba, that is – the demand for an on-line alignment, which reflects the cross-fertilization between language and interaction.
}}

Yang2025

2025-06-29T15:15:30Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Yang2025
|Key=Yang2025
|Title=Downgrading commitment: The final particle ba in complying responses to directives in Mandarin Chinese conversation
|Author(s)=Shuai Yang;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; commitment; complying responses; particle ba; Mandarin Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=3
|Pages=455-476
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241285903
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241285903
|Abstract=Mandarin Chinese is a particle-rich language. Using conversation analysis as its research method, the present study examines one of the Mandarin final particles, namely the particle ba, and illustrates its interactional imports in complying responses to three types of directive actions including requests, suggestions, and proposals. It is argued that the particle ba serves as a conversational resource that is employed at the end of compliance tokens like hao or xing (good or okay) to modify or, to put it more specifically, downgrade its speaker’s commitment. By indicating the reserved or downgraded commitment in an off-record way, participants show their orientation to preserving and maintaining social solidarity. This study contributes to the understanding of commitment in social interaction, especially in responsive actions. Together with other conversation analytic studies on the particle ba, this study also contributes to the understanding of the core meaning and function of the particle ba as a conversational object.
}}

Jian2025

2025-04-06T08:49:03Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Zhiying Jian;
|Title=How is joint laughter ‘pre’ to advice-giving: A sequential pattern that centralizes trouble in student supervision
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advice-giving; Joint laughter; Sequential environment; Supervision interaction; Troubles; Preliminaries; Education;
|Key=Jian2025
|Year=2025
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=106–127
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241257581
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241257581
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study identifies a sequential pattern, where the construction of laughable is succeeded by joint laughter between students and supervisors, and is used to anticipate the exposure of trouble and advice-giving. Drawing from authentic supervision meetings in UK institutions, this study identifies key features that appeal joint laughter: (1) students’ disaligment with formal supervisory questions and (2) supervisors’ disruption of students’ consistency of talk to point out something problematic. Both warranting further unpacking, these two types of interactional trouble make the activity of advice-giving relevant. This study not only contributes to the properties of laughable, but also to the sequential environmental prerequisites for advice-giving in supervision interaction.
}}

Aronsson2025

2025-04-06T08:48:24Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Karin Aronsson; Camilla Rindstedt;
|Title=Draw-a-Monster: Scaffolding and nurse-child improvisations at a child health center
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Adult-child play; Alignments; Improvisations; Micro-politics; Participation framework; Performance; Scaffolding; Storytelling; Swedish
|Key=Aronsson2025
|Year=2025
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=46–63
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241281725
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241281725
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This case study documents social interaction between a nurse and a 4-year-old boy during routine Draw-a-Man assessments at a child health center. Detailed analyses illuminate how the nurse scaffolded head, legs, arms, eyes, and mouth step by step, as elements of a jointly improvised monster story. Nurse-child interaction alternated between scaffoldings and joint improvisations during the child’s drawing of a man who would ‘guard’ a monster. The drawing was co-construed through storytelling and alignments. Divergent participation frameworks were invoked, when the child did not let go of his precious drawing, insisting on taking it home to dad, while the nurse invoked the center’s routines (archiving all drawings). This brief micro drama was resolved through whispered by-play between mother and child. The analyses show how a drawing task is co-construed through improvisations and storytelling, and it also illuminates the role of joint performance for building we-teams and adult-child alignments.
}}

Hunt2025

2025-04-06T08:47:37Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexander R Hunt; Mirko A Demasi;
|Title=‘Which would be more democratic? Allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless’: A discursive psychological study of arguments for and against calls for a second Brexit referendum
|Tag(s)=Discursive Psychology; Politics; Parlamentary debates; Arguments; Brexit; Democracy; Political communication; Political discourse
|Key=Hunt2025
|Year=2025
|Volume=36
|Number=1
|Pages=60–77
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265241257629
|DOI=10.1177/09579265241257629
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
|Abstract=Parliamentary debates are beneficial political environments to study using discourse analysis and discursive psychology. However, there is limited discursive psychological research analysing arguments for and against the possibility of a second referendum concerning the UK’s EU membership status. We collected our data by transcribing a parliamentary debate where politicians discussed a second referendum and analysed it using a discursive psychological framework. Whether they supported leave or remain, politicians discredit their opposing position for supposedly lacking democratic values. As such, politicians portrayed their stances on Brexit as a requirement to uphold democratic principles. The main implication of the analysis demonstrated that politicians defined democracy depending on the positions they took regarding calls for a second Brexit referendum. The present study contributes to the growing discursive literature on Brexit discourse by showing how the meaning of democracy is contested and used as a tool to manage accountability.
}}

Jian2025

2025-03-16T10:33:32Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-03-16 04:33:32

{{BibEntry
|Key=Jian2025
|Key=Jian2025
|Title=How is joint laughter ‘pre’ to advice-giving: A sequential pattern that centralizes trouble in student supervision
|Author(s)=Zhiying Jian;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advice-giving; Joint laughter; Sequential environment; Supervision interaction; Troubles; Preliminaries; Education;
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=106–127
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241257581
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241257581
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study identifies a sequential pattern, where the construction of laughable is succeeded by joint laughter between students and supervisors, and is used to anticipate the exposure of trouble and advice-giving. Drawing from authentic supervision meetings in UK institutions, this study identifies key features that appeal joint laughter: (1) students’ disaligment with formal supervisory questions and (2) supervisors’ disruption of students’ consistency of talk to point out something problematic. Both warranting further unpacking, these two types of interactional trouble make the activity of advice-giving relevant. This study not only contributes to the properties of laughable, but also to the sequential environmental prerequisites for advice-giving in supervision interaction.
}}