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”Conversation Analysis and Sociological Theory” Symposium 2022

2022-10-23T17:24:22Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Symposium
|Full title=”Conversation Analysis and Sociological Theory” Symposium 2022
|Short title=CA & ST 2022
|Short summary="Conversation Analysis and Sociological Theory” Symposium at the University of Helsinki in December. In this on-site symposium world-leading experts reflect upon the complex and often ambiguous relations between Conversation Analysis, sociology and social theory.
|Year=2022
|Web link=https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/conversation-analysis-and-sociological-theory
|Categories (tags)=emca; sociology; theory
|From date=2022/12/08
|To date=2022/12/09
|Address=Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki
|Location=60.17221, 24.95112
}}
”CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY” SYMPOSIUM IN HELSINKI

The relations between Conversation Analysis (CA), sociology and social theory are complex, often ambiguous, and have sometimes been rather fraught. While there might be some relatively high levels of agreement amongst their practitioners of what CA is and does and is meant to achieve, that is not so much the case for the more open and broad terrains of sociology and social theory. Moreover, each of the domains above has changed in orientation, composition and academic location since the late 1960s when CA first came into existence. While initially a child of sociology, as CA has matured and extended its substantive and methodological reach, it has become a large intellectual domain in its own right, with inputs from, and relevance for, a host of other disciplines, notably linguistics, anthropology and psychology. It is now no longer at all clear how CA relates to sociology and social theory, and what each side currently does, or could in future, bring to the other.

This on-site symposium both reflects upon such matters and seeks to propose some answers to the question of how each domain may in future engage in new kinds of productive dialogue with the others. It does so by explicitly examining the linkages of multiple types of social and sociological theory with empirical interaction research, by investigating themes such as: the bearing of power, gender, institutions, culture, and other interaction-exogeneous features of context to the analysis of social interaction, the relevance of automatic behaviours and basic human needs for the unfolding of interaction, and the consequences of conceiving conversational turn-exchanges as dynamic systems vs. rituals. Leading international researchers in empirical interaction research and social/sociological theory are brought together to advance the frontiers of knowledge on such matters, critiquing and re-evaluating older positions and elaborating new perspectives on core questions about the nature of human interaction.

Visit our website for the registration and a full list of speakers: https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/conversation-analysis-and-sociological-theory
Registration is free of charge but the number of places is limited.

Koskinen2021b

2022-05-12T10:28:04Z

EmmiKoskinen: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Emmi Koskinen; Melisa Stevanovic; Anssi Peräkylä; |Title=Affiliation, topicality, and Asperger's: The case of story-responsive questio..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Emmi Koskinen; Melisa Stevanovic; Anssi Peräkylä;
|Title=Affiliation, topicality, and Asperger's: The case of story-responsive questions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Storytelling; Story reception; Affiliation; Topicality; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Asperger's syndrome
|Key=Koskinen2021b
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders
|Volume=11
|Number=1
|Pages=52-77
|URL=https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JIRCD/article/view/20903
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.20903
|Abstract=Objective: In storytelling environments, recipients' questions have mainly been described as non-affiliative. This article examines how the topicality of story-responsive questions relates to the recipients' displays of affiliation. Furthermore, we investigate whether there are differences between the practices of neurotypical participants (NT) and participants diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (AS) in this regard. While aiming to uncover the practices of story-responsive questions in general, we also seek to shed light on the specific interactional features associated with AS.

Method: Our method is qualitative conversation analysis. Drawing on a dataset of Finnish quasi-natural conversations, we compare the interactional consequences of story-responsive questions asked by NT- and AS-participants.

Results: We show how the NT-participants in our data use a specific set of practices to manage the topical relevance of their questions, while the AS-participants' production of otherwise very similar questions differs precisely with reference to these practices.

Discussion: We argue that the different ways in which the NT- and AS-participants treat the topicality of their questions influence the relative affiliative import of the questions in subtle, but yet significant ways.

Conclusions: The affiliative import of story-responsive questions can only really be seen in retrospect, since, in their subsequent turns, the questioner can cast their action as having prepared the ground for affiliation.
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Koskinen2021

2021-06-16T07:08:40Z

EmmiKoskinen: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Emmi Koskinen; Melisa Stevanovic; Anssi Peräkylä |Title=The Recognition and Interactional Management of Face Threats: Comparing Neurot..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Emmi Koskinen; Melisa Stevanovic; Anssi Peräkylä
|Title=The Recognition and Interactional Management of Face Threats: Comparing Neurotypical Participants and Participants with Asperger's Syndrome
|Tag(s)=EMCA; autism spectrum disorder; facework; self; storytelling; social interaction
|Key=Koskinen2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Psychology Quarterly
|Volume=84
|Number=2
|Pages=132-154
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01902725211003023
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211003023
|Abstract=Erving Goffman has argued that the threat of losing one's face is an omnirelevant concern that penetrates all actions in encounters. However, studies have shown that compared with neurotypical individuals, persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder can be less preoccupied with how others perceive them and thus possibly less concerned of face in interaction. Drawing on a data set of Finnish quasinatural conversations, we use the means of conversation analysis to compare the practices of facework in storytelling sequences involving neurotypical (NT) participants and participants diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (AS). We found differences in the ways in which the AS and NT participants in our data managed face threats in interaction, where they spontaneously assumed the roles of both storytellers and story recipients. We discuss our findings in relation to theories of self in interaction, with an aim to illuminate both typical and atypical interactional practices of facework.
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Etelamaki2021

2021-04-29T07:24:43Z

EmmiKoskinen:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Marja Etelämäki, Liisa Voutilainen, Elina Weiste;
|Title=Distributing Agency and Experience in Therapeutic Interaction: Person References in Therapists' Responses to Complaints
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Agency; Person reference; Conversation analysis; Interactional linguistics; Psychotherapy interaction; Finnish
|Key=Etelämäki2021
|Year=2021
|Journal=Frontiers in Psychology
|Volume=12
|Pages=837
|URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.585321
|ISBN=1664-1078
|Abstract=The primary means for psychotherapy interaction is language. Since talk-in-interaction is accomplished and rendered interpretable by the systematic use of linguistic resources, this study focuses on one of the central issues in psychotherapy, namely agency, and the ways in which linguistic resources, person references in particular, are used for constructing different types of agency in psychotherapy interaction. The study investigates therapists' responses to turns where the client complains about a third party. It focuses on the way therapists' responses distribute experience and agency between the therapist and the client by comparing responses formulated with the zero-person (a formulation that lacks a grammatical subject, that is, a reference to the agent) to responses formulated with a second person singular pronoun that refers to the client. The study thus approaches agency as situated, dynamic and interactional: an agent is a social unit whose elements (flexibility and accountability) are distributed in the therapist-client interaction. The data consist of 70 audio-recorded sessions of cognitive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and the method of analysis is conversation analysis and interactional linguistics. The main findings are that therapists use the zero-person for two types of responses: affiliating and empathetic responses that distribute the emotional experience between the client and the therapist, and responses that invite clients to interpret their own experiences, thereby distributing control and responsibility to the clients. In contrast, the second person references are used for re-constructing the client's past history. The conclusion is that therapists use the zero-person for both immediate emotional work and interpretative co-work on the client's experiences. The study suggests that therapists' use of the zero-person does not necessarily attribute “weak agency” to the client but instead might strengthen the clients' agency in the sense of control and responsibility in the long term.
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Etelamaki2021

2021-04-29T07:20:23Z

EmmiKoskinen: BibTeX auto import 2021-04-29 07:20:22

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|Key=Etelämäki2021
|Key=Etelämäki2021
|Title=Distributing Agency and Experience in Therapeutic Interaction: Person References in Therapists' Responses to Complaints
|Author(s)=Marja Etelämäki, Liisa Voutilainen, Elina Weiste;
|Tag(s)=
|ISBN=1664-1078
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2021
|Journal=Frontiers in Psychology
|Volume=12
|Pages=837
|URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.585321
|Abstract=The primary means for psychotherapy interaction is language. Since talk-in-interaction is accomplished and rendered interpretable by the systematic use of linguistic resources, this study focuses on one of the central issues in psychotherapy, namely agency, and the ways in which linguistic resources, person references in particular, are used for constructing different types of agency in psychotherapy interaction. The study investigates therapists' responses to turns where the client complains about a third party. It focuses on the way therapists' responses distribute experience and agency between the therapist and the client by comparing responses formulated with the zero-person (a formulation that lacks a grammatical subject, that is, a reference to the agent) to responses formulated with a second person singular pronoun that refers to the client. The study thus approaches agency as situated, dynamic and interactional: an agent is a social unit whose elements (flexibility and accountability) are distributed in the therapist-client interaction. The data consist of 70 audio-recorded sessions of cognitive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and the method of analysis is conversation analysis and interactional linguistics. The main findings are that therapists use the zero-person for two types of responses: affiliating and empathetic responses that distribute the emotional experience between the client and the therapist, and responses that invite clients to interpret their own experiences, thereby distributing control and responsibility to the clients. In contrast, the second person references are used for re-constructing the client's past history. The conclusion is that therapists use the zero-person for both immediate emotional work and interpretative co-work on the client's experiences. The study suggests that therapists' use of the zero-person does not necessarily attribute “weak agency” to the client but instead might strengthen the clients' agency in the sense of control and responsibility in the long term.
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Janusz2021

2021-04-22T13:49:41Z

EmmiKoskinen:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Bernadetta Janusz; Jörg R. Bergmann; Feliks Matusiak; Anssi Peräkylä
|Title=Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Janusz2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Frontiers in Psychology
|URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842/full
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842
|Abstract=Four couple therapy first consultations involving clients with diagnosed narcissistic problems were examined. A sociologically enriched and broadened concept of narcissistic disorder was worked out based on Goffman’s micro-sociology of the self. Conversation analytic methods were used to study in detail episodes in which clients resist to answer a therapist’s question, block or dominate the development of the conversation’s topic, or conspicuously display their interactional independence. These activities are interpreted as a pattern of controlling practices that were prompted by threats that the first couple therapy consultation imposes upon the clients’ self-image. The results were discussed in the light of contemporary psychiatric discussions of narcissism; the authors suggest that beyond its conceptualization as a personality disorder, narcissism should be understood as a pattern of interactional practices.
}}

Janusz2021

2021-04-22T13:38:13Z

EmmiKoskinen: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Title=Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism |Tag(s)=EMCA; |Key=Janusz2021 |Year=2021 |Language=English..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Title=Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Janusz2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842/full
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842
|Abstract=Four couple therapy first consultations involving clients with diagnosed narcissistic problems were examined. A sociologically enriched and broadened concept of narcissistic disorder was worked out based on Goffman’s micro-sociology of the self. Conversation analytic methods were used to study in detail episodes in which clients resist to answer a therapist’s question, block or dominate the development of the conversation’s topic, or conspicuously display their interactional independence. These activities are interpreted as a pattern of controlling practices that were prompted by threats that the first couple therapy consultation imposes upon the clients’ self-image. The results were discussed in the light of contemporary psychiatric discussions of narcissism; the authors suggest that beyond its conceptualization as a personality disorder, narcissism should be understood as a pattern of interactional practices.
}}