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Bruun2026a

2026-05-20T04:31:35Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrea Bruun; Rebecca Anderson-Kittow |Title=Exploring How Known-Answer Questions Are Used in Conversations About Funerals Between Peopl..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrea Bruun; Rebecca Anderson-Kittow
|Title=Exploring How Known-Answer Questions Are Used in Conversations About Funerals Between People With Learning Disabilities and Support Staff
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; conversation analysis; death; end-of-life care planning; learning disability; social care
|Key=Bruun2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=British Journal of Learning Disabilities
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bld.70045
|DOI=10.1111/bld.70045
|Abstract=Background
People with learning disabilities should be involved in conversations around funerals. Conversation-starter pictures were developed to support funeral conversations between people with a learning disability and support staff. How this resource is used in practice and how staff asks questions about the funeral pictures need exploration. This study explored how known-answer questions were posed and pursued when people with learning disabilities and support staff talk about funeral pictures.

Methods
Seven sessions with people with learning disabilities and support staff using funeral resources from an end-of-life care planning toolkit were video-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using Conversation Analysis. Known-answer questions were identified and analysed in two sessions involving the ‘Let's Talk About Funerals’ resource.

Findings
Staff asked known-answer questions where the recipient should provide a ‘correct’ answer. Questions were initially open, not indicating that a specific answer was needed. Staff pursued answers through follow-up questions targeting funeral terms and by minimally acknowledging the proposed responses. This led to missed opportunities to elaborate on these responses.

Conclusions
Support staff should be mindful about pursuing answers as it may close the conversation and not allow for exploration of the perspective of the person with a learning disability.
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Bassetti2026

2026-05-18T11:16:45Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Chiara Bassetti; Erik Boström; Kenneth Liberman; Jakub Mlynář; Robin James Smith; Dirk vom Lehn; |Title=Simmel and Ethnomethodology:..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Chiara Bassetti; Erik Boström; Kenneth Liberman; Jakub Mlynář; Robin James Smith; Dirk vom Lehn;
|Title=Simmel and Ethnomethodology: Foundational Sociological Issues from a Nondualist Perspective
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Formal sociology; Intersubjectivity; Membership; Objectivation practices; Phenomenology; Praxis
|Key=Bassetti2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=The American Sociologist
|URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12108-026-09693-7
|DOI=10.1007/s12108-026-09693-7
|Abstract=Georg Simmel, despite being a founding father of sociology, is often excluded from the list of the discipline’s principal founders. This neglect of Simmel’s work was perpetuated in ethnomethodology even though, like ethnomethodology, Simmel’s work concerns the minute organization of everyday interaction. It can, therefore, be of considerable importance for ethnomethodological inquiries. A group of ethnomethodologists devoted two years to reviewing Simmel’s corpus to identify and reveal resources that are useful for contemporary sociologists at large. What we discovered exceeded our expectations, and this article discusses some of these conceptual tools and theoretical resources, including praxis as the object of sociological investigations, objectivation practices, membership as degrees of commonness-and-strangeness, and the individual-“unity” relationship. We also review connections between Simmel, Husserl, Garfinkel and other scholars. Both Simmel and Garfinkel were relentless in their refusal to replace the dynamic character of social life with static theoretical constructs. We argue that thinking through their theories together fruitfully impedes sociologists in pursuing dualistic reasoning and re-orients them towards phenomena and issues of great sociological import that have remained largely overlooked, or have receded from view, in current sociology. We conclude that Simmel’s notion of “purely sociological” forms is perfectly consonant with the motivating interest of ethnomethodological researchers, who might employ his conceptual insights to address the lived objectivity of social phenomena empirically. At the same time, this also shows how ethnomethodology is concerned with foundational sociological issues. And, finally, it illuminates Simmel’s textured heritage beyond set, traditional readings of sociological thought and its history.
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Winterbottom2026

2026-05-08T17:26:25Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Phineas Edwin Winterbottom; Andrea Bruun; Steven Bloch; |Title=Breaking the rules: A conversation analytic study of hospice multidiscipl..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Phineas Edwin Winterbottom; Andrea Bruun; Steven Bloch;
|Title=Breaking the rules: A conversation analytic study of hospice multidisciplinary team meetings
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Rules; Conversation analysis; Hospice; Multidisciplinary teams; In press
|Key=Winterbottom2025
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456251344039
|DOI=10.1177/14614456251344039
|Abstract=Rule-breaking occurs in healthcare settings and is typically pro-social. However, rule-breaking within a hospice setting has not been previously studied. This study investigates rule-breaking within hospice multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings using Conversation Analysis. Eight video and audio recordings of approximately 45-minute-long MDT meetings at one UK hospice were systematically analysed to identify how staff break rules. Rule-breaking was present throughout the data and was characterised by the minimisation of accountability through collectivising pronouns, extreme formulations and laughables. These three features supported rule-breakers to voice potentially transgressive opinions and recommendations that may have provoked criticism from MDT members. Rule-breakers were therefore able to evade social and professional sanctions whilst carrying out pro-social actions that benefit hospice patients, meeting participants, as well as the organisation and progression of the meeting itself. These findings contribute to the existing understanding of rule-breaking and have implications for how institutions understand and address it.
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Bruun2026

2026-05-08T17:23:27Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrea Bruun; Pål Gulbrandsen; Øystein Fløtten; Margrethe Aase Schaufel |Title=How doctors present treatment options in advanced lung..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrea Bruun; Pål Gulbrandsen; Øystein Fløtten; Margrethe Aase Schaufel
|Title=How doctors present treatment options in advanced lung cancer consultations: a conversation analytic study
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis
|Key=Bruun2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=BMJ Open Respiratory Research
|Volume=13
|Number=1
|Pages=e002172
|URL=https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/13/1/e002172
|DOI=10.1136/bmjresp-2023-002172
|Abstract=Background To facilitate shared decision-making (SDM), it is important that doctors clearly present the decision to be made and the available treatment options to the patient. This study explored how treatment options after first-line therapy were presented in advanced lung cancer consultations.

Methods Audio recordings of 12 advanced lung cancer consultations between patients, their companions and doctors in three Norwegian hospitals were transcribed and analysed using Conversation Analysis. Data were collected between November 2019 and March 2022.

Results Doctors employed three strategies when presenting treatment options to patients. These were (1) open option presentation, (2) selective option presentation and (3) recommended option presentation. Strategy (1) involved the doctor presenting all the possible treatment options in a balanced manner to the patient. With strategy (2), the doctor presented selected treatment options to the patient, and, for example, did not articulate the possibility of refraining from further therapy. Strategy (3) included the doctor’s explicit preference for certain treatment options.

Conclusions Strategies that doctors employ to present treatment options to patients facilitated SDM to different degrees, where some can challenge core principles of SDM, such as creating choice awareness. Doctors must be aware of their strategies to ensure that treatment options are presented to patients in a way that supports SDM.
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Bruun2025b

2026-05-08T17:20:41Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrea Bruun; Irene Tuffrey-Wijne |Title=Palliative care communication between patients with intellectual disabilities and hospice staff..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrea Bruun; Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
|Title=Palliative care communication between patients with intellectual disabilities and hospice staff: a Conversation Analysis pilot study protocol
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis
|Key=Bruun2025b
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Journal=BMJ Open
|Volume=15
|Number=6
|Pages=e101622
|URL=https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e101622
|DOI=10.1136/bmjopen-2025-101622
|Abstract=Introduction. Communication challenges are among the main barriers for people with intellectual disabilities in accessing palliative care. They include inadequate skills among staff and difficulties with confirming understanding and around the presentation and assessment of symptoms. In-depth analysis of interactions between people with an intellectual disability and staff may shed light on these communicative challenges as well as facilitators. However, no studies have closely analysed the interactions between people with an intellectual disability and professionals within palliative care settings.

Methods and analysis. This protocol describes a pilot study assessing the feasibility and acceptability of conducting a Conversation Analysis study involving video-recording palliative care conversations between people with intellectual disabilities and professionals.

Three conversations between patients with an intellectual disability, their companions and palliative care staff will be video recorded in a UK hospice. Recordings will be transcribed and analysed using Conversation Analysis. Communication phenomena of interest and worth further exploration will be identified in collaboration with key stakeholders.

Ethics and dissemination. The study received a favourable opinion by a UK research ethics committee in February 2025. All participants must provide informed consent to take part in the study. It will be carefully assessed that potential participants with an intellectual disability have capacity to consent to take part. Accessible study information materials for participants with an intellectual disability are available (ie, easy-read and video).

Study findings will be disseminated in academic papers and conference presentations. Progress and findings will also be shared via social media and with relevant groups of people with intellectual disabilities, family carers, service providers and academics.
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Kasuya2026

2026-04-19T16:59:03Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Keisuke Kasuya |Title=Mobilizing picture books: Multimodal practices of participation and socialization in Kindergarten read-aloud activ..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Keisuke Kasuya
|Title=Mobilizing picture books: Multimodal practices of participation and socialization in Kindergarten read-aloud activities
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Ethnomethodology; Kindergarten; Mobilized object; Read-aloud; Picture book
|Key=Kasuya2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Linguistics and Education
|Volume=93
|Number=June 2026
|Pages=101517
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589826000264
|DOI=10.1016/j.linged.2026.101517
|Abstract=This study investigates how picture books, as material resources mobilized by teachers, organize participation and mediate socialization during read-aloud activities in Japanese kindergartens. Drawing on ethnomethodology and multimodal conversation analysis, it examines video-recorded sessions of three-year-old children in their first month of kindergarten. The analysis shows that teachers’ embodied practices—such as holding, pointing to, angling, and lowering the picture book—are crucial in establishing joint attention, guiding intersubjectivity, and managing classroom order. Picture books function not only as gateways to the narrative world but also as mobilized objects that index the state of activity: story progression, suspension, or rule enforcement. Teachers navigate seamlessly between narrative delivery and real-world instruction (e.g., toilet use, behavioral norms), using the book as a pivot to integrate storytelling with socialization into classroom routines. By situating these findings within research on joint attention, mobilized objects, and instructional transitions, the study demonstrates that read-aloud sessions are not merely opportunities for transmitting stories but are dynamic, interactionally organized environments where institutional norms are accomplished through material and embodied practices.
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Munoz2025

2026-04-19T16:55:10Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Daniel Muñoz; |Title=Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system |Tag(s)=EMCA; M..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Daniel Muñoz;
|Title=Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Mobility justice; Care; Embodied practices; Everyday mobilities; Public transport
|Key=Munoz2025
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Journal=Mobilities
|Volume=20
|Number=4
|Pages=662-679
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17450101.2024.2380824
|DOI=10.1080/17450101.2024.2380824
|Abstract=Modern public transport systems are typically designed by following universal aspirations to predictability and standardisation. In the case of Santiago’s public transport, however, this design philosophy has often translated into concrete, practical struggles for users with more vulnerable corporealities. In analysing the case of a controversial turnstile installed in Santiago’s buses in 2016, this paper draws on video analysis to examine how passengers respond to, and locally deal with, its exclusionary design. Passengers’ interactions with this technology demonstrate how the turnstile is taken up as more than a mere sorting device, to become a matter of concern around mobility (in)justice. A detailed analysis of these interactions – through ethnomethodological analysis of video data – describes how passengers respond to the turnstile’s exclusionary design by deploying diverse embodied practices of care towards other users experiencing trouble with it. Such practices of care align with a grounded, embodied sense of mobility (in)justice as opposed to more abstract understandings of distributive justice. The paper concludes by discussing the potential forpublic transport systems to become more just and inclusive environments designed as infrastructures of care, whereby materialities may not only allow, but support, practices of care among users.
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Munoz2023

2026-04-19T16:35:37Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Daniel Muñoz; |Title=Accessibility as a ‘doing’: the everyday production of Santiago de Chile's public transport system as an acces..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Daniel Muñoz;
|Title=Accessibility as a ‘doing’: the everyday production of Santiago de Chile's public transport system as an accessible infrastructure
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Accessibility; Mobility; Public transport; Infrastructures; Disability; Everyday practices; Ethnomethodology; Ethnography; Video analysis
|Key=Munoz2023
|Year=2023
|Language=English
|Journal=Landscape Research
|Volume=48
|Number=2
|Pages=200-211
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/01426397.2021.1961701
|DOI=10.1080/01426397.2021.1961701
|Abstract=This paper seeks to expand mainstream descriptions of accessibility as a characteristic of materialities and infrastructures, inscribed into them at the design stage. Instead, it explores accessibility as a practice. That is, as the outcome of ongoing everyday interactions taking place between disabled and non-disabled users encountering materialities and accessibility-oriented protocols. Accessibility is framed as a relational achievement in which the practical action of those who routinely navigate public transport infrastructures locally enact heterogeneous landscapes of accessibility. The paper draws on qualitative data of disabled people using the public transport system of Santiago de Chile. Through an ethnomethodological analysis of video recordings and ethnographic work, the interaction between disabled and non-disabled passengers and infrastructures is put in context, revealing the embodied skills and interactional work that people do in order to enact accessible situations for themselves and for others.
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Munoz2026

2026-04-19T16:33:18Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Daniel Muñoz; |Title=An infrastructure of embodied practices: How disabled people become part of public transport in Santiago de Chile..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Daniel Muñoz;
|Title=An infrastructure of embodied practices: How disabled people become part of public transport in Santiago de Chile
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Disability; Embodied practices; Infrastructures; Interdependence; Public transport; Video analysis
|Key=Munoz2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Urban Studies
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980251413498
|DOI=10.1177/00420980251413498
|Abstract=This article examines how disabled people become part of public transport infrastructure through embodied and interactional practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and video analysis of journeys in Santiago de Chile, it explores how disabled users co-produce the system’s functioning—anchoring themselves in carriages, navigating ticketing processes, or coordinating alighting from buses. Challenging dominant framings of accessibility as material provision or personal independence, the article emphasizes the relational and distributed nature of disability and mobility. It draws on critical infrastructure studies, disability studies, and ethnomethodology to conceptualize public transport as a “coming-together” of bodies and materialities. Rather than merely revealing breakdowns or failure, the analysis foregrounds the everyday labor of care, coordination, and adjustment through which infrastructure is sustained. Disabled people’s embodied practices are shown to be infrastructural in themselves—constitutive of what allows the system to function. This perspective calls for a shift in how urban mobility is conceptualized and designed: not as a neutral system serving passive users but as an interdependent accomplishment involving human bodies, materials, and social relations. The article argues for recognition of this labor, and for planning approaches that value, rather than seek to eliminate, embodied interdependence as part of more just, inclusive urban transport.
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Arita2026

2026-04-19T16:31:10Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Yuki Arita; |Title=Multiple saying of Japanese negation token iya iya iya as a compliment response |Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis;..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Yuki Arita;
|Title=Multiple saying of Japanese negation token iya iya iya as a compliment response
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Multiple saying; Compliment; Compliment response; Iya; Negation token; Japanese
|Key=Arita2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=258
|Number=June 2026
|Pages=57-76
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216626000573
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.03.005
|Abstract=This study examines the multiple negation token iya as a compliment response in Japanese conversations. Compliment recipients can choose various methods of responding to compliments, including disagreement as a means of self-praise avoidance. Past studies reported that disagreement responses to compliments tend to be produced with qualifications or accounts. In Japanese, however, disagreements without verbal qualifications are pervasively observed, and those disagreements are frequently done with the multiple saying iya iya iya. Employing Conversation Analysis, this study examines 53 instances of the multiple iya as a compliment response. The aim of this study is twofold: First, it contributes to the research on compliment responses by examining the interactional purposes of responding to compliments with non-qualified disagreement. Second, this study extends existing research on multiple sayings by scrutinizing the use of the multiple saying iya iya iya in compliment sequences. The multiple iya responses are observed in two major sequential environments: 1) in response to compliments given in the third position after an answer turn, and 2) at a possible completion point of an extended telling. In both environments, the multiple iya is deployed to curtail the in-progress compliment sequence, while laughter serves as a vocal qualification to avoid complimentees’ complete disaffiliation with complimenters. These findings suggest that using the multiple iya as a compliment response is a way of managing asymmetries of participants’ epistemicity regarding the content of the compliments.
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Amery2026a

2026-04-19T16:28:46Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Philippa Amery; Susan Danby; Maryanne Theobald; |Title=Producing shareables: Mothers’ digital media making with infants |Tag(s)=EMCA;..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Philippa Amery; Susan Danby; Maryanne Theobald;
|Title=Producing shareables: Mothers’ digital media making with infants
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Digital media making; Ethnomethodology; Family relationships; Mediated communication; Mother-infant interaction; Participation frameworks; Shareables; Smartphones
|Key=Amery2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse & Communication
|Volume=20
|Number=2
|Pages=189-211
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17504813261429173
|DOI=10.1177/17504813261429173
|Abstract=There are growing concerns that mothers’ use of smartphones and digital practices interfere with and disrupt social interaction, harming mother-infant relationships. Their digital practices, however, particularly the creation and sharing of “shareables” (photos, videos, voice notes), play an important role in maintaining family relationships and fulfilling relational obligations. This article presents a fine-grained analysis of two mothers’ self-recorded interactions with their infants at home as they engage in digital media making. By drawing on the methodologies of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA), we show how infants are co-participants in the production of shareable content. This approach highlights the interactional features of shareables as socially accomplished and situated practices. Findings challenge assumptions that smartphone use is inherently disruptive, to instead reveal how digital media making is a joint activity. The complex contextual factors that shape mothers’ use of digital technologies offer insights and nuanced understandings of digital mothering practices within digitally mediated interactional spaces.
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Emborg2026

2026-04-19T16:25:35Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Christina Emborg; |Title=Neurodivergent recipient design and intersubjectivity – A re-examination of perspective-taking in autism |Tag..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Christina Emborg;
|Title=Neurodivergent recipient design and intersubjectivity – A re-examination of perspective-taking in autism
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Intersubjectivity; Conversation analysis; Recipient design; Perspective-taking; Autism; In press
|Key=Emborg2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614456261417492
|DOI=10.1177/14614456261417492
|Abstract=This article offers a re-examination of perspective-taking skills in autism, based on the conversation analytic notions of recipient design and intersubjectivity. Perspective-taking is here conceptualised as an interactional achievement; an interpersonal, social process that builds shared understandings through sequential tradjectories of talk. Micro-analyses of naturally occurring interactions between adults with autism and neurotypical carers demonstrate autistic turns that are not designed with a sensitivity to recipients’ displayed needs in interaction, leading to breakdowns of intersubjectivity. Four types of so-called neurodivergent recipient design are presented: (1) references that do not facilitate recipient recognition; (2) stereotypical ‘nonsense’ talk that does not facilitate the recipient’s action ascription; (3) non-repaired misunderstandings; and (4) perseverative storytellings that are pursued despite the recipient’s display of disinterest. The perspective-taking can be said to be mutually challenged in these interactions, as shared understandings are not achieved. Such interactional approach to perspective-taking offers ecologically valid insights into the problems that are observable in natural interactions between autistic and neurotypical people, and future quantitative research in the autistic intersubjectivity is suggested.
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Chen2026a

2026-04-19T16:19:52Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Chin-Hui Chen; Chia-Yu Li |Title=From resistance to progressivity: The sequential organisation of refusal management in Taiwanese long-t..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Chin-Hui Chen; Chia-Yu Li
|Title=From resistance to progressivity: The sequential organisation of refusal management in Taiwanese long-term home-based dementia care
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Dementia care communication; Refusal management; Home-based care; Taiwan
|Key=Chen2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Language & Communication
|Volume=108
|Number=May 2026
|Pages=88-100
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0271530926000303
|DOI=10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.004
|Abstract=Dementia care communication frequently encounters refusals, particularly in home-based settings where institutional authority must be negotiated. Departing from clinical models that treat resistance as a symptom, this study approaches refusals as socially situated interactional events. Drawing on a corpus of naturally occurring interactions between a professional caregiver and an older woman in Taiwan, the analysis employs Conversation Analysis to examine how refusal management is accomplished as a sequential practice. The caregiver maintains task progressivity through deferrals, downgraded directive renewals, and trajectory modifications, while silence operates as interactional non-uptake occasioning reformulations or activity shifts. Confucian-based expectations of filial respect and face maintenance are further indexed to pursue cooperation while preserving the recipient’s dignity, extending person-centred care theory in this Taiwan-based context.
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Song2026

2026-04-19T16:14:31Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Le Song |Title=Doing being a streamer: Examining the social and spatial practices of live streaming in urban space |Tag(s)=EMCA; Live st..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Le Song
|Title=Doing being a streamer: Examining the social and spatial practices of live streaming in urban space
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Live streaming; Interaction order; Ethnomethodology; Mediated interaction; Video analysis
|Key=Song2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics
|Volume=10
|Number=2
|Pages=1348
|URL=https://caes.hku.hk/ajal/index.php/ajal/article/view/1348
|Abstract=This article examines the practices of a Chinese tour guide in Paris who turned to live streaming on the Kuaishou platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. As global travel restrictions decimated the tourism industry, live streaming emerged as a vital tool for his economic survival and professional adaptation. Employing a mixed-method approach that combines video analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and in-depth interviews, this study investigates how the streamer navigates performing place, managing audiences, and negotiating urban public space. The analysis is grounded in an ethnomethodological framework, drawing on Erving Goffman’s (1983) theory of the interaction order. Findings reveal that live streaming transforms the solitary act of walking through the city into a co-present, mediated “With,” where the streamer and their remote audience form a temporary social unit. This performance, however, is fraught with tensions, including the precariousness of platform labor, the challenges of managing audience interactions, and the cons tant negotiation of social norms in physical and digital space. The study contributes to the literature on digital labor, platform urbanism, and mobile media by providing a micro-sociological account of how digital platforms reconfigure work, sociality, and the experience of the city.
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Song2025

2026-04-19T16:12:28Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Le Song; Christian Licoppe |Title=The Organization of Live Stream Beginnings |Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Twitter; Live Streamin..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Le Song; Christian Licoppe
|Title=The Organization of Live Stream Beginnings
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Twitter; Live Streaming
|Key=Song2025
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Journal=Research on Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=58
|Number=2
|Pages=188-209
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/08351813.2025.2484998
|DOI=10.1080/08351813.2025.2484998
|Abstract=This study offers the first empirical examination of how live stream beginnings are organized, revealing recurring interactional practices across two genres: “streamer-centered” and “event-centered” streams. By analyzing a corpus of live streams on Twitter from the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, our findings reveal that in streamer-centered streams, streamers address four key concerns: gathering an audience, managing the audience collectively, engaging individually with viewers, and enabling stream intelligibility. In event-centered streams, streamers adopt a minimal presence, acting as observers documenting events while viewers show strong orientations to the immediate intelligibility of content. In addition, greetings remain pervasive throughout the streams, reflecting interactional expectations shaped by participation frameworks and categorical relevancies. These findings shed light on the interactional organization that underpins live stream beginnings. Data are in English.
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Izumi2026

2026-04-03T12:56:41Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Hiroaki Izumi; |Title=Two Patterns of Opening in Japanese Rehabilitation Team Meetings |Tag(s)=EMCA; Ethnomethodology; Multimodal conver..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Hiroaki Izumi;
|Title=Two Patterns of Opening in Japanese Rehabilitation Team Meetings
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Ethnomethodology; Multimodal conversation analysis; Meeting openings; Japanese rehabilitation team meetings; Institutional talk; Multidisciplinary teams; In press
|Key=Izumi2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Human Studies
|URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-026-09839-z
|DOI=10.1007/s10746-026-09839-z
|Abstract=Building on conversation analytic research in workplace meetings, this study examines a notable and systematic variation in meeting openings observed in 52 video-recorded Japanese rehabilitation team meetings: the doctor-initiated pattern (DIP) and the other-party-initiated pattern (OIP). The analysis focuses on the multimodal organization of interaction in each opening sequence, where participants mobilize bodies, language, and objects—including technologies and documents—to accomplish stepwise transitions to the meeting proper on a moment-to-moment basis. A systematic, comparative analysis of the data reveals that participants construct the DIP using a set of modular components—preparation, readiness check, and transition—which they flexibly modify through reordering, expanding, and omitting. In contrast, the OIP, observed here in cases of delayed openings, follows an alternative pattern: participants display their readiness in advance, resulting in the preemption of the readiness check. These practices illustrate a pattern of practical regularity: instead of reproducing a fixed sequence, participants adapt the structure of openings to the practical circumstances of their interaction while relying on common components and actions. By exploring both generalizable patterns and setting-specific variations, this study contributes to ongoing discussions of canonical structures of meeting openings proposed in previous research.
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Ma2026

2026-03-30T05:12:47Z

JakubMlynar: added URL + DOI

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Xiaoxin Ma; Virginia Calabria; Shuai Zhang; Na Wang; Xiaomeng Zhang; Wen Ma;
|Title=Initiate-Manage-Sustain: A Multimodal Conversation Analytic Approach to Understanding Therapeutic Engagement for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Conversation analysis; Embodiment; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Multimodality; Multimodal Conversation Analysis; Therapeutic Interaction; Clinical practice
|Key=Ma2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Science & Medicine
|Pages=119217
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953626002935
|DOI=10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119217
|Abstract=While children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are often perceived as disengaged from social interaction, fine-grained analyses of how they are actively guided into engagement remain limited in scope. This study adopts a multimodal conversation analytic (CA) approach to examine naturally occurring interactions in specialized therapy sessions involving Mandarin-speaking children with ASD, with a focus on the multimodal practices through which therapists scaffold children’s responsiveness. Drawing on video-recorded data, we identify a locally recurrent three-phase interactional structure—Initiating, Managing, and Sustaining—through which therapists systematically deploy embodied resources to organize interactional sequences in therapeutic settings. In the Initiating phase, therapists use gaze, gesture, and tactile cues to establish joint attention prior to instruction. In the Managing phase, directives are enacted through gestural modeling and co-occurring embodied actions, which make abstract instructions perceptually accessible and imitable. In the Sustaining phase, multimodal positive assessments (e.g., verbal praise, thumbs-up gestures) reinforce participation and stabilize engagement. Within this clinical context, embodied practices are not supplementary to talk but interactionally constitutive, as they scaffold verbal input and co-construct children’s understanding. The findings show that effective engagement is achieved not simply by overcoming communicative challenges but through the sequential organization of multimodal resources. Our analysis suggests potential strategies for designing responsive engagement that nurtures communicative potential through flexible integration of verbal and embodied resources. These context-specific insights may inform clinical approaches that integrate language and embodiment in comparable therapeutic settings—offering empirical grounding for future theoretical and practical development. In an era of standardized protocols, this study returns us to the irreducible truth: therapy happens in the space of multimodal actions, not merely words. Therapists are thus encouraged to integrate verbal and non-verbal resources in a laminated, context-sensitive manner, attending to multimodal processing and individual communicative style, as the foundation of person-centered care.
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Ma2026

2026-03-30T05:12:17Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Xiaoxin Ma; Virginia Calabria; Shuai Zhang; Na Wang; Xiaomeng Zhang; Wen Ma; |Title=Initiate-Manage-Sustain: A Multimodal Conversation A..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Xiaoxin Ma; Virginia Calabria; Shuai Zhang; Na Wang; Xiaomeng Zhang; Wen Ma;
|Title=Initiate-Manage-Sustain: A Multimodal Conversation Analytic Approach to Understanding Therapeutic Engagement for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Conversation analysis; Embodiment; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Multimodality; Multimodal Conversation Analysis; Therapeutic Interaction; Clinical practice
|Key=Ma2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Science & Medicine
|Pages=119217
|Abstract=While children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are often perceived as disengaged from social interaction, fine-grained analyses of how they are actively guided into engagement remain limited in scope. This study adopts a multimodal conversation analytic (CA) approach to examine naturally occurring interactions in specialized therapy sessions involving Mandarin-speaking children with ASD, with a focus on the multimodal practices through which therapists scaffold children’s responsiveness. Drawing on video-recorded data, we identify a locally recurrent three-phase interactional structure—Initiating, Managing, and Sustaining—through which therapists systematically deploy embodied resources to organize interactional sequences in therapeutic settings. In the Initiating phase, therapists use gaze, gesture, and tactile cues to establish joint attention prior to instruction. In the Managing phase, directives are enacted through gestural modeling and co-occurring embodied actions, which make abstract instructions perceptually accessible and imitable. In the Sustaining phase, multimodal positive assessments (e.g., verbal praise, thumbs-up gestures) reinforce participation and stabilize engagement. Within this clinical context, embodied practices are not supplementary to talk but interactionally constitutive, as they scaffold verbal input and co-construct children’s understanding. The findings show that effective engagement is achieved not simply by overcoming communicative challenges but through the sequential organization of multimodal resources. Our analysis suggests potential strategies for designing responsive engagement that nurtures communicative potential through flexible integration of verbal and embodied resources. These context-specific insights may inform clinical approaches that integrate language and embodiment in comparable therapeutic settings—offering empirical grounding for future theoretical and practical development. In an era of standardized protocols, this study returns us to the irreducible truth: therapy happens in the space of multimodal actions, not merely words. Therapists are thus encouraged to integrate verbal and non-verbal resources in a laminated, context-sensitive manner, attending to multimodal processing and individual communicative style, as the foundation of person-centered care.
}}

Arminen2026

2026-03-27T20:00:27Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=INCOLLECTION |Author(s)=Ilkka Arminen; |Title=Ethnomethodology in the Analysis of Discourse and Interaction |Editor(s)=Carol A. Chapelle; Jennifer Andrus |..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Ilkka Arminen;
|Title=Ethnomethodology in the Analysis of Discourse and Interaction
|Editor(s)=Carol A. Chapelle; Jennifer Andrus
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Ethnomethodology; Discourse; Interaction
|Key=Arminen2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Edition=Second Edition
|Booktitle=The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781405198431
|DOI=10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0402.pub2
|Note=An updated version of: https://emcawiki.net/Arminen2013
|Abstract=Ethnomethodology examines the tacit, taken-for-granted methods through which social actors produce and sustain meaningful social order in everyday interaction. This entry outlines the core assumptions of ethnomethodology, emphasizing accountability, indexicality, and the reflexive relationship between social action and social order. Meaning is treated not as externally given but as an accomplishment of participants' situated practices. The article traces the intellectual origins of ethnomethodology in Garfinkel's work and its development into conversation analysis, which investigates the sequential and normative organization of talk-in-interaction. It reviews classical studies of mundane activities and institutional settings, highlighting how orderliness emerges through participants' own methods rather than imposed rules. The discussion then turns to later developments, including studies of work, sociomateriality, multimodality, and engagements with technology, AI, and design. These extensions demonstrate how interaction is co-constituted through talk, embodied conduct, material artifacts, and spatial arrangements. The article concludes by arguing that contemporary ethnomethodology retains its foundational concern with the “seen but unnoticed” practices of everyday life while expanding its analytical scope to address technologically mediated and socio-politically embedded forms of interaction.
}}

Ryska2026

2026-03-24T07:07:19Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=David Ryška; Olcay Sert |Title=‘I agree but’: Performing less-than-agreement during EFL oral proficiency exams |Tag(s)=EMCA; In pre..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=David Ryška; Olcay Sert
|Title=‘I agree but’: Performing less-than-agreement during EFL oral proficiency exams
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; L2 interactional competence; Speaking assessment; Discussion taks; Disagreement; Interactive listening; Conversation analysis; Multimodality
|Key=Ryska2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=System
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0346251X26000485
|DOI=10.1016/j.system.2026.104017
|Abstract=This study deals with L2 interactional competence (L2 IC) and its assessment in pair and group test interactions. When developing and using rubrics for the assessment of L2 IC, language testers and raters face the issue of having to assign separate scores to what is essentially a jointly constructed examinee performance. Driven by conversation analysis as a method for analysing social actions, recent advances in the field have shown that a solution to the problem may lie in a thick description of the various L2 interactional practices and resources that examinees draw on when performing social actions in alternative ways. We contribute to this endeavour by investigating how examinees accomplish the social action of disagreeing with their partners' preceding turn. To do so, we draw on multimodal transcriptions of 66 video-recorded pair and group EFL oral proficiency tests conducted in a higher education setting in Czechia. Employing multimodal conversation analysis, we investigate the sequential unfolding of disagreements and demonstrate that they can be classified into three distinct types based on the semiotic (verbal, prosodic, temporal, embodied) resources employed to both signal and mitigate the incoming dissent. We argue that the design of disagreements constitutes rich ground for examining a learner's active listenership, and hence their L2 IC. Such findings have implications for rater training, construction of assessment rubrics, design of L2 discussion tasks as well as for the teaching of L2 IC in general.
}}

Lahti2026

2026-03-22T10:47:10Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Malgorzata Lahti; Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen; |Title=“It's like really like hardcore student food”: Identity work through food talk..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Malgorzata Lahti; Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen;
|Title=“It's like really like hardcore student food”: Identity work through food talk in a virtual exchange project
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Food talk; Identity work; Interaction; intercultural communication competence; membership categorisation analysis; virtual student exchange
|Key=Lahti2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Prologi: Journal of Communication and Social Interaction
|Volume=22
|Number=1
|Pages=114-136
|URL=https://journal.fi/prologi/article/view/180128
|DOI=10.33352/prlg.180128
|Note=Virtuaalisia opiskelijavaihtomalleja, kuten collaborative online international learning (COIL) -ohjelmia, edistetään korkeakoulutuksessa yhä enenevässä määrin yhdenvertaisuutta ja kulttuurienvälistä osaamista painottavina aloitteina, joiden tarkoituksena on ehkäistä demokratian heikentymistä ja lisääntyvää polarisaatiota. Silti suuri osa käytännönläheisestä kirjallisuudesta nojaa edelleen essentialistisiin käsityksiin kulttuurista ja identiteetistä. Viimeaikainen tutkimus puolestaan korostaa kulttuurin ja identiteetin dynaamisuutta sekä niiden vuorovaikutuksessa rakentuvaa luonnetta. Tästä näkökulmasta kulttuurienvälinen vuorovaikutusosaaminen tarkoittaa erilaisten näkökulmien tarkastelua, ideologioiden kyseenalaistamista sekä neuvottelua useista identiteeteistä. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastelemme, miten opiskelijat neuvottelevat identiteeteistä COIL-ympäristössä, ja pohdimme, millaisia seurauksia neuvotteluilla on kulttuurienvälisen viestinnän teoretisoinnille ja opetukselle. Analyysi perustuu vuonna 2019 toteutettuun COIL-projektiin, jossa kulttuurienvälisen viestinnän opiskelijat Suomesta ja Alankomaista työskentelivät yhdessä teknologiavälitteisesti Hyödynnämme jäsenyyskategorisointianalyysiä ja tarkastelemme kolmea verkkotapaamista, joissa viiden hengen ryhmän tehtävänä oli keskustella ruoasta. Analyysissa keskitymme kolmeen toimintalähtöiseen kategorisointikäytäntöön, joissa osallistujat rakentavat identiteettejä sekä yksinkertaisten että monimutkaisten ruoka- ja paikallisuuteen liittyvien orientaatioiden kautta: (1) erottavien ja jaettujen opiskelijaidentiteettien samanaikainen rakentaminen keskeneräisen tehtävän selittämiseksi; (2) paikallisen identiteetin esiin tuominen tehtävässä tehtyjen valintojen perustelemiseksi; sekä (3) kulinaarinen toiseuttaminen ei-paikallisen opiskelijaidentiteetin rakentamiseksi. Väitämmekin, että tarvitaan pedagogisia lähestymistapoja, jotka ylittävät pelkästään stereotyyppien vähentämiseen keskittyvät mallit ja sen sijaan johdattavat oppijat identiteettineuvottelun jännitteisiin ja niiden seurauksiin — ja että simplexity-käsite voi tarjota tällaiselle lähestymistavalle toimivan perustan.
|Abstract=Virtual exchange programmes such as collaborative online international learning (COIL) are inc-reasingly promoted in higher education as equitable and interculturally oriented initiatives aimed at countering democratic decline and rising polarisation. Yet much practitioner literature still relies on essentialist notions of culture and identity, whereas recent research highlights them as fluid and interactionally accomplished. From this perspective, intercultural communication competence involves examining viewpoints, questioning ideologies, and navigating multiple identities. We in-vestigate how students negotiate identity in COIL and consider the implications for theorising and teaching intercultural competence. Our analysis draws on interaction from a 2019 COIL project between intercultural communication students in Finland and the Netherlands. Using member-ship categorisation analysis, we examine three online meetings of a five-member group whose task involved discussing food. We analyse three cases of action-oriented category work where partici-pants construct identities through both simple and complex orientations to food and locality: (1) simultaneous construction of different and shared student identities to explain an incomplete task; (2) enactment of local identity to justify choices in the assignment; and (3) culinary othering to craft a non-local student identity. We argue that we need pedagogical approaches that move beyond stereotype reduction and instead engage learners with the tensions and consequences of identity negotiation—and that the concept of simplexity can provide a foundation for such an approach.
}}

Bolden2024a

2026-03-22T10:39:25Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Galina B. Bolden; |Title=Correcting Others in Other-Initiated Other-Repair Sequences |Tag(s)=EMCA; Correction; Repair; Other-initiated r..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Galina B. Bolden;
|Title=Correcting Others in Other-Initiated Other-Repair Sequences
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Correction; Repair; Other-initiated repair; Conversation analysis
|Key=Bolden2024a
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Research on Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=57
|Number=2
|Pages=193-214
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/08351813.2024.2340409
|DOI=10.1080/08351813.2024.2340409
|Abstract=Repair organization is a system of practices for dealing with problems of hearing, speaking, and understanding and a central mechanism for maintaining intersubjectivity in conversation. Among the different types of repair, other-initiated other-repair—that is, repair initiated and resolved by a recipient of a trouble source—is the least understood. In other-initiated other-repair sequences, an interactant self-selects to enact “other-correction” of some problematic aspect of another’s talk. What occasions other-correction? How are such corrections carried out? What is accomplished by correcting others? To answer these questions, I draw on a large dataset of ordinary conversational materials in the English and Russian languages and explore “practices and actions” of other-correction. I show how the activity of correcting others is shaped by participants’ orientations to positionality, intersubjectivity, and normativity. Data are in American/British English and Russian.
}}

Calabria2026

2026-03-22T10:36:48Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Virginia Calabria; Brett Smith |Title=Advancing Conversation Analytic research in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences: a forward-looking..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Virginia Calabria; Brett Smith
|Title=Advancing Conversation Analytic research in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences: a forward-looking agenda
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Sport and Exercise Sciences; Co-production; Qualitative methods; Embodiment; In press
|Key=Calabria2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2159676X.2026.2644981
|DOI=10.1080/2159676X.2026.2644981
|Abstract=Conversation Analysis (CA) has increasingly been recognised as a valuable qualitative approach for examining interactional practices in sport and exercise contexts, yet it remains methodologically marginal within Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES). This paper aims to broaden our understanding of what CA is, what it offers, and how it contributes to advancing qualitative research and practice in SES. We introduce CA’s core principles and analytic commitments, distinguishing it from other qualitative approaches commonly used in the field, including reflexive thematic analysis, narrative analysis, and critical discourse analysis. Drawing on existing CA-informed studies, we demonstrate the potential of focusing on how interactional practices central to sport and exercise – such as coaching, instruction, feedback, identity work, embodiment, and the negotiation of power – are accomplished in real time through talk and embodied conduct. Building on this review, we outline a forward-looking agenda for CA in SES, identifying opportunities for expanding empirical contexts beyond elite sport, strengthening co-produced and participatory approaches, advancing multimodal and embodied analyses, and addressing ethical and practical challenges associated with naturalistic data collection. We argue that CA does not seek to replace existing qualitative traditions in SES but adds a distinctive interactional dimension that complements them. By embracing CA’s emic, fine-grained analysis of naturally occurring interaction, SES scholars can deepen theoretical understanding, enhance applied relevance, and contribute to more inclusive, socially just, and practice-oriented research.
}}

Icbay2026a

2026-03-19T18:19:39Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Mehmet Ali Icbay; |Title=The Interactional Accomplishment of Refereeing Decisions in VAR Protocols |Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; VAR; decision..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Mehmet Ali Icbay;
|Title=The Interactional Accomplishment of Refereeing Decisions in VAR Protocols
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; VAR; decision-making; video assistant referee; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis; referee
|Key=Icbay2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Sport and Social Issues
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01937235251415160
|DOI=10.1177/01937235251415160
|Abstract=This study explores how on-field referees (REF) and Video Assistant Referees (VAR) collaboratively accomplish decision-making during in-match video review sequences in professional football. While VAR was introduced to increase accuracy and reduce error, discrepancies between the VAR's recommendation and the REF's final decision remain a persistent feature of match officiating. This paper investigates in detail these moments of agreement and disagreement, focusing on how shared decisions are sequentially organized, epistemically negotiated, and visually constructed in real time. Drawing on 107 official VAR recordings released by the Turkish Football Federation during the 2024–2025 Premier League season, the study employs an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach. Three episodes are analyzed in depth, one instance of agreement and two of disagreement, making available and accountable how decisions unfold through embodied actions, video-guided talk, and institutional protocols. The analysis reveals that even with shared access to identical video evidence, VAR and REF may interpret incidents differently due to divergent professional vision, distinct epistemic stances, and differing orientations to accountability. The study demonstrates that VAR reviews are not neutral, technocratic processes but complex interactional practices involving negotiated authority, contested categorizations, and moment-by-moment decision trajectories. The findings from the detailed sequential analysis challenge assumptions about the objectivity of video technology and emphasize the interactional work required to transform visual data into institutional decisions. By emphasizing the social organization of seeing, recommending, and deciding, this paper contributes to broader conversations in sport officiating, technology-mediated judgment, and the sociology of institutional interaction.
}}

Klowait2026

2026-03-16T14:14:52Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Nils Klowait; Maria Erofeeva; |Title=Nonhuman situational enmeshments — How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT |T..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Nils Klowait; Maria Erofeeva;
|Title=Nonhuman situational enmeshments — How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT
|Tag(s)=EMCA; ChatGPT; Human-Computer Interaction; Interactional rhythms; Multimodal conversation analysis; Conversation analysis; Temporal enmeshment; AI Reference List
|Key=Klowait2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Linguistic Anthropology
|Volume=36
|Number=1
|Pages=e70037
|URL=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jola.70037
|DOI=10.1111/jola.70037
|Abstract=This paper investigates how participants recruit Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as interactional co-participants depending on their temporal enmeshment within an interactional flow. Using Charles Goodwin's co-operative action framework, we analyze video data of human–AI interaction to trace the temporal structures established by human participants that define the LLM's participant role. We show how participants alternately orient to the artificial conversational agent as a dynamic human-like interlocutor and as a static, persistent document. Our findings contribute to understanding the role of temporality in establishing participation frameworks in human–AI interaction and problematize the effects of technological features on interaction, the malleability of language and tools, and the unique nature of language machines.
}}

Stokoe2026a

2026-03-16T07:23:59Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Charles Antaki; Leanne Chrisostomou; Elle Henderson; Simon Stewart |Title=The softness of hard data: Discursive psycho..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Charles Antaki; Leanne Chrisostomou; Elle Henderson; Simon Stewart
|Title=The softness of hard data: Discursive psychology, conversation analysis, and psychological science
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Conversation analysis; Discursive psychology
|Key=Stokoe2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Qualitative Psychology
|URL=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-40060-001
|DOI=10.1037/qup0000358
|Abstract=Qualitative methods are sometimes criticized on the grounds that they do not provide “hard” data. However, on inspection, hard data turn out to be produced by unavoidably “soft” human interaction and activities. That means that psychologists must work directly with what people do and say and either transform it into abstractions—with potential distortions along the way—or stay with the raw events to see what questions they may answer. We argue for the latter: using discursive psychology and conversation analysis to ground claims about human sociality in the evidence that it provides, unfiltered, in everyday interaction. However, taking this argument further, we demonstrate how discursive psychological and conversation analytic scrutiny may reveal the “softness” of both quantitative (experiments, standardization) and qualitative (interview and survey questions) research tools, with implications for the production, openness, and validity of psychological knowledge.
}}

Ro2026a

2026-03-15T18:34:53Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Eunseok Ro; Ufuk Balaman; |Title=Establishing mutual orientation on the shared screen in video-mediated interactions: Current speaker's..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Eunseok Ro; Ufuk Balaman;
|Title=Establishing mutual orientation on the shared screen in video-mediated interactions: Current speaker's acknowledgments of the screen controller's on-screen actions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Video-mediated interaction; Conversation analysis
|Key=Ro2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=257
|Number=May 2026
|Pages=11-25
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216626000469
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.02.011
|Abstract=Multiparty video-mediated meetings are increasingly common interactional domains that offer diverse technological resources while also introducing complex interactional challenges. Screen-sharing is one of the most central affordances, as it enables participants to organize shared attention, establish publicly available reference points, and support the progression of ongoing activities. Yet, the establishment of mutual orientation toward the shared screen is not automatic; it is interactionally accomplished. In this paper, we use multimodal conversation analysis to investigate how participants establish such orientation when the current speaker is different from the participant controlling the shared screen. Our analysis demonstrates a recurrent micro-sequential pattern consisting of: (i) the current speaker's turn oriented to the screen-shared materials, (ii) the screen controller's fitted on-screen actions in coordination with that turn (i.e., displays of active listenership), and (iii) the current speaker's acknowledgment of those fitted actions. The findings bring micro-level insights into how participants manage mutual orientation and sustain progressivity in video-mediated interactions.
}}

Ro2026

2026-03-15T18:32:57Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Eunseok Ro; Hyunwoo Kim |Title=“What do you mean by…?”: A conversation analytic study of negotiating word choice in L2 writing con..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Eunseok Ro; Hyunwoo Kim
|Title=“What do you mean by…?”: A conversation analytic study of negotiating word choice in L2 writing consultations
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Word choice; L2 writing; L2
|Key=Ro2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Linguistics and Education
|Volume=93
|Number=June 2026
|Pages=101532
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0898589826000410
|DOI=10.1016/j.linged.2026.101532
|Abstract=Conversation analysis (CA) research on second language (L2) writing consultations has demonstrated how correction is accomplished through talk, embodied conduct, and the use of material resources. While previous studies have primarily examined grammatical correction and the treatment of written products, comparatively less attention has been paid to how participants negotiate intended meaning in relation to word choice. Addressing this gap, this study investigates how vocabulary-related problems are interactionally managed in one-on-one peer L2 writing consultations at a university. Focusing on a recurrent practice observed in a tutor’s consultations, the analysis examines meaning-targeting Wh-repair initiations (e.g., “What do you mean by…?”) and their accompanying embodied actions. Drawing on a multimodal CA approach, the study traces two recurrent trajectories: one in which tutees respond to the repair initiation, and another in which an absence of response leads the tutor to advance candidate understandings. The findings show that Wh-repair initiations function as pre-sequences to correction of texts by foregrounding tutees’ epistemic primacy over intended meaning and creating interactional space for elaboration, confirmation, or disagreement. Correction is recurrently oriented to as contingent on the establishment of intersubjective understanding and is collaboratively accomplished through coordinated verbal, embodied, and material actions. By demonstrating how word-choice problems are addressed through repair and textual correction as multimodal practices in L2 writing consultations, this study contributes to CA research on repair, correction, and epistemic work in pedagogical interaction.
}}

Tennent2026

2026-03-15T18:29:15Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Emma Tennent; Elle Henderson |Title=Against Recruiting Participants for Psychology Research |Tag(s)=EMCA; Recruitment; Ethics; Discursiv..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Emma Tennent; Elle Henderson
|Title=Against Recruiting Participants for Psychology Research
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Recruitment; Ethics; Discursive psychology; Social interaction; Categories; In press
|Key=Tennent2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Qualitative Psychology
|URL=https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2027-40063-001.html
|DOI=10.1037/qup0000354
|Abstract=Recruiting participants is prevalent in psychology and many social sciences. Although qualitative approaches are often positioned as critical alternatives to quantitative methods, underlying assumptions about recruitment are shared across paradigms. These assumptions are that (a) researchers can determine groups of people with relevant identities, (b) recruitment can be accomplished by naming such identities, and (c) participants so recruited will be able to speak to/from these identities. We draw on discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis to highlight the metatheoretical assumptions of recruiting participants. We show how the categorical logic underpinning recruitment involves problematic power relations. Two case studies illustrate how categories typically characterized as “demographic” (gender and ethnicity) are negotiated by participants in social interaction. We argue that studying naturally occurring data decenters researchers’ agendas and offers a powerful way to realize principles like honoring voice or lived experience.
}}

Auer2026

2026-03-14T18:18:34Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Peter Auer; Elisabeth Zima |Title=Does gaze aversion index dispreference or complexity of upcoming answers to questions? |Tag(s)=EMCA; C..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Peter Auer; Elisabeth Zima
|Title=Does gaze aversion index dispreference or complexity of upcoming answers to questions?
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Dispreference; Gaze; Answer complexity; Gaze aversion; Polarity matching; Preference; Question-answer sequences; Type conformity; In press
|Key=Auer2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Frontiers in Communication
|URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2026.1731835
|DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2026.1731835
|Abstract=What counts as a preferred or dispreferred answer to a question and how can it be recognized? These questions have been widely discussed in conversation analysis in recent years, and some well-established diagnostic features of dispreferred answers have been identified. In this paper, we turn to a less well-established feature: gaze aversion. Kendrick & Holler (2017) have previously suggested that answers to polar questions that invert the question's polarity are accompanied by gaze aversion to a statistically significant extent. They argue that this gaze aversion indicates the answer's dispreferred status. We were able to replicate their findings using a large collection of English and German conversational data for polar question-answer sequences. However, we found an even stronger tendency for the answerer to avert their gaze during or after wh-questions, for which, per definition, the concept of preference in terms of polarity matching does not apply. Therefore, we extended the focus of our study to both polar and wh-questions and to alternative concepts of preference: type conformity and pragmatic preference. Only the latter was found to be associated with gaze aversion in a statistically significant way. Thus, we considered an alternative explanation for answerers' gaze aversion, also suggested by Kendrick and Holler (2017): answer complexity. Logistic regression analysis revealed that answer complexity, measured by the number of TCUs and absolute length, as well as hesitations, are significant predictors of gaze aversion, while none of the preference types are. These results demonstrate that gaze aversion does not index dispreference so much as it indexes that a complex answer is about to follow.
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Pilnick2026

2026-03-14T18:15:33Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Alison Pilnick; Isabel Windeatt-Harrison; Rebecca O'Brien; Suzanne Beeke; Lauren Bridgstock; Rowan H. Harwood |Title=Making sense of sen..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alison Pilnick; Isabel Windeatt-Harrison; Rebecca O'Brien; Suzanne Beeke; Lauren Bridgstock; Rowan H. Harwood
|Title=Making sense of sense-making: The challenge of navigating interactional competence in dementia care
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Medical interactions; Dementia care; Interactional competence; Conversation analysis
|Key=Pilnick2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Communication & Medicine
|URL=https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/commed-2025-0014
|DOI=10.3138/commed-2025-001
|Abstract=Difficulties with communication present a challenge not just for people living with dementia (PLWD) themselves but also for those who care for them. This challenge is amplified in acute care environments with unfamiliar surroundings and staff. Drawing on a wider study using video-recorded data to identify practices to manage or avoid distress for PLWD in the acute hospital, we use conversation analysis to explicate some of the reasons why challenges can arise and consider the implications of this. Previous work has shown that while PLWDs’ transactional ability with language may decline, more foundational skills can still persist, notably abilities to produce responsive talk, which follows the rules of turn-taking and displays an orientation to sequence organization. We show that these abilities can also extend to recognizing the lack of orientation to these features in the talk of others. Examples include PLWD drawing attention to missing or inadequate responses to questions from staff, seeking accounts for unaccounted-for actions, and identifying inappropriate referents. Our findings show that even when PLWD are not oriented to time or place and their talk is hard to interpret semantically, staff should not assume that interactional competence is entirely absent.
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Mustakallio2026

2026-03-14T16:21:53Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Juhana Mustakallio; Johanna Ruusuvuori; Julia Katila |Title=Disruptive Touch and Accountability: Embodied Disalignment in Physical Exami..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Juhana Mustakallio; Johanna Ruusuvuori; Julia Katila
|Title=Disruptive Touch and Accountability: Embodied Disalignment in Physical Examinations During Medical Consultations
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Touch; Physical examination; Medical consultation; Embodiment; Multimodal conversation analysis; Multimodality; Conversation analysis
|Key=Mustakallio2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
|Volume=9
|Number=1
|URL=https://tidsskrift.dk/socialinteraction/article/view/144865
|DOI=10.7146/si.v9i1.144865
|Abstract=Using multimodal conversation analysis, we investigated a phenomenon in which the organization of physical examination in the medical consultation is disrupted by patients’ embodied displays of pain and withdrawal from the doctor’s touch, and doctors’ practices in managing those withdrawals. Such instances break the organization of the interaction and can thus be seen to encode patients’ disalignment with the ongoing activity. We present how the participants orient to the disalignments as accountable and, with that, restore the organization. The data consist of Finnish general practitioners’ consultations with patients suffering from upper respiratory tract problems.
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Markowska-Marczak2026

2026-03-14T16:18:22Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Barbara Markowska-Marczak; Marek Czyżewski; Robert Frei; Bernadetta Janusz; Jerzy Stachowiak |Title=Harvey Sacks 90/50: How does conver..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Barbara Markowska-Marczak; Marek Czyżewski; Robert Frei; Bernadetta Janusz; Jerzy Stachowiak
|Title=Harvey Sacks 90/50: How does conversation work? Transcript of a panel discussion held as part of the open seminar
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Harvey Sacks
|Key=Markowska-Marczak2026
|Year=2026
|Language=Polish
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=147-172
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3782
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/8
|Abstract=Zapis dyskusji panelowej przeprowadzonej 18 listopada 2025 roku na Wydziale Ekonomiczno-Socjologicznym Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego w ramach otwartego seminarium przygotowanego przez Sekcję Badań Komunikacji Społecznej Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego.
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Carlin2026a

2026-03-14T16:14:41Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrew Carlin; Joana B.V. Marques |Title=Studies of membership categorization: Ethnomethodology or constructive analysis? |Tag(s)=EMCA;..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrew Carlin; Joana B.V. Marques
|Title=Studies of membership categorization: Ethnomethodology or constructive analysis?
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Activity categorization; Astronomy communication; Constructive analysis; Harvey Sacks; Omnirelevance; Partitioning
|Key=Carlin2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=121-146
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3777
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/7
|Abstract=Rejecting existing anthropological frameworks, Harvey Sacks developed membership categorization device (MCD) analysis to examine how people use ordinary categories in interaction, rather than analysts’ categories. MCD analysis was adapted progressively into membership categorization analysis (MCA), seeking to refine Sacks’s original MCD framework to counter the remaining cognitivism from its anthropological origins. Exploring members’ categorization activities during interactions in astronomy communication sessions – people looking at objects in the sky through telescopes and using the naked eye – convinced us that the state-of-the-art in MCA is insufficiently sensitive to account for category work within these sessions. Therefore, we propose a distinction between ethnomethodological MCA and constructive-analytic MCA. Extending arguments on formulaic studies of workplaces in ethnomethodology to studies in membership categorization, we suggest that studies in current MCA fail to realize its ethnomethodological potential and retreat into constructive analysis. This is due in part to the preservation of a key weakness within MCA, in the move from decontextualized to occasioned Devices and Categories. “Omni-relevance” was coined originally by Sacks yet it is used now at “analytic discretion”, a cognitivist template for being seen to “do MCA” rather than describing members’ practices.
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Mlynar2026

2026-03-14T16:11:43Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Jakub Mlynář |Title=Structured objects: The organized relationships of parts and wholes |Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Ethnometh..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Jakub Mlynář
|Title=Structured objects: The organized relationships of parts and wholes
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Ethnomethodology; Harvey Sacks; Objectivation practices; Parts and wholes; Structured objects
|Key=Mlynar2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=101-120
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3776
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/6
|Abstract=This paper explores the organized relationships of parts and wholes through Harvey Sacks’s work, taking it as an inspiration for empirical studies. This topic is often conceived in terms of gestalts, where each part appears through its functional significations. I propose a complementary examination of parts and wholes as members’ phenomena. In an early lecture, Sacks [1992: 89] notes that “we need ... a notion that what Members see is decomposable by them”, and that they “seem to do this [by] treating something that they see as a combination of parts, some of which have names”. To develop this direction of inquiry, I offer the notion of structured objects: entities with recognizable features such as “left” and “right” sides (e.g., photographs and faces) or “beginnings” and “ends” (e.g., stories and streets). Two illustrations – covering directly and retrospectively available structuredness – elucidate how structured objects are constituted and maintained. Importantly, such a decomposition is not imposed by professional analysts. The structuredness is rather established in practical manipulations with the relevant “parts”, the relevant structures of social objects being produced or discovered in and as these operations.
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Luke2026

2026-03-14T16:08:44Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Kang Kwong Luke |Title=On Sacks as linguist |Tag(s)=EMCA; Linguistics; Indexical expressions; Collaborative utterances; Personal pronoun..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Kang Kwong Luke
|Title=On Sacks as linguist
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Linguistics; Indexical expressions; Collaborative utterances; Personal pronouns; Grammar-for-conversation
|Key=Luke2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=81-99
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3775
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/5
|Abstract=Truly original thinkers know no disciplinary boundaries. Sacks is generally thought of as a sociologist, with a primary interest in the possibility of social order. However, in investigating the workings of social organization, Sacks soon discovered that, as an indispensable enabler of that organization, language (as indexical expressions) plays a critical role, and needs to be meticulously observed and unpacked. To this end, he goes to great lengths in almost every one of his lectures to show how the most unexceptional bits of language often turns out to work in previously unnoticed and unimaginable ways. By associating Sacks with the category “linguist”, we do not mean to pigeon-hole a trailblazer who is uncategorizable. Rather, our aim is to show that there is much in Sacks’s highly original work that is still relevant, and indeed valuable, to students of language, even to this day. Within the space of this article, we confine ourselves to two of Sacks’s paradigm-shifting insights on grammar. These include his treatment of collaborative utterances and personal pronouns.
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Schuetze2026

2026-03-14T16:06:05Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Fritz Schütze |Title=My gratitude towards a most powerful analytical legacy. Some remarks on the importance of the research work of Har..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Fritz Schütze
|Title=My gratitude towards a most powerful analytical legacy. Some remarks on the importance of the research work of Harvey Sacks for process-analytical sociology
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Orderliness of social phenomena; Two-layer analysis; Process-analytical sociology
|Key=Schuetze2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=71-79
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3780
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/4
|Abstract=Harvey Sacks’s studies opened up a new “observational habit” for looking at social processes and interactive work as expressed by speech activities. It stressed formal features of social processes that would be normally taken for granted by mainstream sociology and therefore not reflected at all. These are the phenomena: (a) sequential order of social activities of relating to others, (b) sequential order of speech interaction, (c) temporality and history of social processes of interaction, (d) categorization devices and category bound activities, (e) the formal-order apparatus of social process phenomena and mechanisms, (f) the impetus and obligation, i.e. the “force”, stemming from the exertion of the formal order apparatus.
In conversation analysis Sacks was engrossed within the extremely creative exploration processes of a first layer of analysis regarding the formal order phenomena (of ongoing conversation). However, in the examples given during his lectures he would also hint at the possibility of a second layer of analysis: being intrigued by culture as “an apparatus for generating recognizable actions” [Sacks 1992: 226]. And this might be a concept for reminding process-oriented social scientists – and not just linguists – of the perennial epistemological importance of Sacks’s explorations in his conversation analysis and in his earlier work.
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Relieu2026

2026-03-14T16:02:25Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Marc Relieu; Catherine Félix; Rod Watson |Title=Walking lanes / walking lines: Bodily alignments and passing through doorways |Tag(s)=E..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Marc Relieu; Catherine Félix; Rod Watson
|Title=Walking lanes / walking lines: Bodily alignments and passing through doorways
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Body alignment; Walking lane; Side-by-side walking; Doorways; Membership categorization
|Key=Relieu2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=53-70
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3774
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/3
|Abstract=There are very few studies that analyse the role of artefacts as shaping joint locomotion in public places. By video-recording pedestrians passing through doorways in a mall, we have observed how openings and doors contribute to mobile formations such as walking lanes or files. Doors play a major part as a focus for common direction. Doors occasion a modification of speed and a re-arrangement of spatial proximity between pedestrians during the process of passing through. We argue that mobile formats such as walking together in public places are based on culturally-methodic dynamics of bodily orientation to others. They are also based on a conjoint orientation to apertures that afford entry spaces to doors through which pedestrians wish to pass. Physical-artefactual boundaries such as doors, sidewalks and lanes play a major role in shaping joint locomotion. We would like to focus on a particular case of locomotion driven by artefacts: the passing through doors shaped by serial arrangements of pedestrians in a following/followed format. We treat this case of mobile formation as a specific genuine form of aggregate in its own right, distinct from side-by-side walking and other forms of mobile file.
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Rockland2026

2026-03-14T15:58:50Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Glenn Rockland |Title=A reminiscence of Harvey Sacks 1968-1975 |Tag(s)=EMCA; Harvey Sacks; Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis |Key=..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Glenn Rockland
|Title=A reminiscence of Harvey Sacks 1968-1975
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Harvey Sacks; Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis
|Key=Rockland2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=29-51
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3773
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/2
|Abstract=This is an account of several years in the study of conversation analysis with Harvey Sacks at UC Irvine. In the late sixties and early seventies Sacks provided a series of lectures, research reports, and a methodology detailing how ordinary conversations could be recorded, transcribed, and studied. As the founder of the field Sacks brought us closer to the ideal of sociology as a science. During several years of study with the gentleman I discovered a remarkable intellect and an interesting person that I attempt to describe through a chronology of his progression of thought, relationship to ethnomethodology, and published and unpublished research results. Included are some personal experiences and reflections that I hope provide a better understanding of the man as well as his academic direction.
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Carlin2026

2026-03-14T15:37:49Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrew Carlin |Title=“Handfuls of world”: Sacks Studies, Part 2 |Tag(s)=EMCA; Harvey Sacks; Constructive analysis; Ethnomethodology;..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrew Carlin
|Title=“Handfuls of world”: Sacks Studies, Part 2
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Harvey Sacks; Constructive analysis; Ethnomethodology; Membership categorization; Membership categorisation; Studies of work
|Key=Carlin2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=75
|Number=1
|Pages=9-28
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/3772
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/1
|Abstract=This essay is introducing the second part of the thematic issue on Harvey Sacks. The first part of the thematic issue was published in Przegląd Socjologiczny 74(3) in 2025. Both parts have been timed to coincide with the anniversaries of Sacks’s birth in 1940, his death in 1975; and the publication of the single-volume Lectures on conversation in 1995. Across both parts of the thematic issue, we realize that Sacks’s work is still radical, relevant and vital for ethnomethodological programmes (ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis), linguistics and sociology. In this essay we introduce the contents of this part of the thematic issue, and connections are established between the two parts of the thematic issue.
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Nishizaka2026

2026-03-06T13:03:12Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Aug Nishizaka; |Title=Rectifying others’ misunderstandings without doing correcting: Living with obscurities in ordinary life |Tag(s)=..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Aug Nishizaka;
|Title=Rectifying others’ misunderstandings without doing correcting: Living with obscurities in ordinary life
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Error correction; Rectification of a misunderstanding; Obscurities; Conversation analysis
|Key=Nishizaka2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=256
|Number=April 2026
|Pages=57-74
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216626000184
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.010
|Abstract=This study addresses a methodological issue that is posed by the ways in which a speaker covertly rectifies the recipient's potential misunderstanding. It analyzes Japanese interactions using the methodology of conversation analysis (CA), exploring two practices of rectifying a potential misunderstanding without doing correcting: (1) adding new information that contradicts the recipient's incorrect assumption, and (2) using a similar phrase as possibly framing the speaker's reattempt of the potentially misunderstood talk. Participants may orient to covert rectifications only obscurely. This study demonstrates that CA can address obscure orientations by accumulating relevant observations against the background of cases in which participants orient to a covert rectification more clearly. In the conclusion, it discusses the social significance of covert rectifications.
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Dai2026

2026-03-02T10:56:41Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=David Wei Dai; Li Wei; Michael Davey |Title=Investigating transpositioning as an interactional achievement: Expanding the promise of mem..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=David Wei Dai; Li Wei; Michael Davey
|Title=Investigating transpositioning as an interactional achievement: Expanding the promise of membership categorization analysis
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Membership Categorisation Analysis; Membership Categorization Analysis; MCA
|Key=Dai2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Applied Linguistics
|Pages=amag015
|URL=https://academic.oup.com/applij/advance-article/doi/10.1093/applin/amag015/8501197
|DOI=10.1093/applin/amag015
|Abstract=In social interaction, we take on and are ascribed multiplex social categories. The capacity to transform, transcend, and transgress the boundaries of categories is the ability to transposition, a necessity for thriving in social life in the 21st century. This paper has two related goals. Theoretically, it argues that transpositioning is an interactional achievement and to understand this process, one needs to inspect on a moment-by-moment basis how speakers move beyond confines of their social categories. Methodologically, it extends the promise of Membership Categorization Analysis and posits that when employed in conjunction with sequential analysis through Conversation Analysis, it illuminates how transpositioning takes place at an interactional level. We present our arguments through analyses of transpositioning processes in three distinct language use contexts: workplace, everyday and educational interactions. In addition to conceptual and methodological contributions, the paper sheds light on the relationship between transpositioning and the morality of interaction, the emancipatory potential of transpositioning practices, and the connection between transpositioning on shorter and longer timescales. Implications for pedagogy and human-AI interactions are also discussed.
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Rollet2026

2026-03-02T10:53:53Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Nicolas Rollet; Marc Relieu; Sophie Dalle-Nazébi |Title=Images that Highlight: The Case of Video Calls Between an Emergency Call Servic..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Nicolas Rollet; Marc Relieu; Sophie Dalle-Nazébi
|Title=Images that Highlight: The Case of Video Calls Between an Emergency Call Service and People with Aphasia
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Video-mediated interaction; Emergency calls; Aphasia
|Key=Rollet2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders
|Volume=16
|Number=2-3
|URL=https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/qrcdd-2024-0003
|DOI=10.3138/qrcdd-2024-0003
|Abstract=This study is part of a wider project to ensure that people with aphasia have better access to emergency calls in France, via Centre National Relais 114 (CNR114), a specialized emergency call reception center. We collected data from video calls between 114’s agents and aphasic volunteers simulating emergency situations. We closely examined how participants deal with comprehension problems, in particular how the agent's use of images shown and pointed at the camera proves decisive. Using a conversation analysis approach that takes into account the specificity of the participants, we provide emblematic cases of what we found in the data, all in line with the practical problem of organizing and ensuring mutual understanding, through referential activities. The results reveal some in-depth aspects of emergency service agents’ expertise from an interactional and creative point of view: facilitating the progressivity of interaction and ensuring a better understanding of the different referents mobilized in discourse.
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Chalfoun2026a

2026-03-02T10:51:47Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrew Chalfoun; |Title=Differentiating Regulative and Constitutive Normativity: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel and the Sticky Proble..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrew Chalfoun;
|Title=Differentiating Regulative and Constitutive Normativity: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel and the Sticky Problem of Meaning
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Normativity; Meaning; Sociology; Theory; Ethnomethodology; Talcott Parsons; Harold Garfinkel
|Key=Chalfoun2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
|Volume=56
|Number=1
|Pages=e70033
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jtsb.70033
|DOI=10.1111/jtsb.70033
|Abstract=In everyday life, individuals regularly confront novel situations which demand their attention and response. In such situations, they routinely deploy portable norms to select between appropriate and inappropriate next actions. Yet, these norms do not seem to determine the conditions of their own application. How then are we able to act in an orderly and mutually intelligible manner? This paper examines two attempts to answer this question, neither of which is entirely satisfactory. Talcott Parsons solves this ‘problem of meaning’ by postulating the existence of a cultural system that governs the applicability of shared norms. By contrast, Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology prioritises actors' own methods of in situ sense-making, drawing attention to contextually specific practices for securing intersubjectivity. Although Garfinkel's approach resolves some problems with the Parsonian account, I argue that his break with Parsons introduces a conceptual slippage between regulative and constitutive normativity. In view of this, the final section argues that contemporary social theory would benefit from renewed attention to the mutual autonomy of these two phenomena.
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Hoey2026

2026-03-02T10:41:11Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Elliott M. Hoey; Ruth H. Parry |Title=Managing Communication Challenges in Recommending Aids and Adaptations to Activities of Daily Livi..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elliott M. Hoey; Ruth H. Parry
|Title=Managing Communication Challenges in Recommending Aids and Adaptations to Activities of Daily Living in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Assessment Consultations: A Study in a Palliative Care Setting
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Conversation analysis; Palliative care; Medical CA
|Key=Hoey2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Health Communication
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2026.2626853
|DOI=10.1080/10410236.2026.2626853
|Abstract=Often, occupational and physiotherapeutic assessment consultations involve patients discussing their problems in activities of daily living (ADL) and therapists trying to find suitable solutions. These conversations can present challenges since patients frequently reject therapists’ recommendations, which can jeopardize shared decision-making, bring interactional and relational tensions, and can mean patients can lose out on potential benefit. This study, in a palliative care setting, is aimed at improving our understanding of how therapists handle these communicative challenges. Based on audio/video-recordings of assessment consultations at an English hospice, we used conversation analysis to examine specialist therapists’ recurrent practices for introducing recommendations and responding to patient resistance, and whether/how these enacted shared decision-making. We identified seven practices through which therapists introduced interventions, each did so cautiously, in ways that seemed to head-off or mitigate potential rejection. And we identified seven practices through which therapists responded to resistance, for example, by accepting it or moving on, or by working to sustain the potential intervention as a live matter and potentially beneficial in the future. While a subset of these practices seem restricted to the palliative care setting—namely, those which implicate future deterioration—we suggest that most are applicable across settings in which ADL recommendations are given. These findings fill a gap in practical guidance regarding ADL recommendations in this therapeutic environment, and more generally contribute to our understanding of resistance to advice and suggestions in clinical settings.
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Sterie2026

2026-03-02T10:37:26Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Anca-Cristina Sterie; Francesca Bosisio; Ralf J. Jox; Laura Jones |Title=Negotiating participation in conversations about care planning..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Anca-Cristina Sterie; Francesca Bosisio; Ralf J. Jox; Laura Jones
|Title=Negotiating participation in conversations about care planning between people living with mild neuro-cognitive disorders and their healthcare proxies: a single case analysis
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advance Care Planning; Autonomy; Dementia; Interaction; In press
|Key=Sterie2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=The Gerontologist
|URL=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41692985/
|DOI=10.1093/geront/gnag011
|Abstract=Background and objective: The time between diagnosis with a mild neurocognitive disorder (MND) and definitive loss of decisional capacity presents a window of opportunity to participate in advance care planning (ACP). To implement early planning, we need to know how to promote healthy relationships between people with MND and their healthcare proxies. Our objective is to examine how people with MND and their proxies discuss engagement in ACP and how proxies orient towards the ability and right of the person with MND to provide answers.

Research design and methods: We undertake a conversation analysis of an interview related to ACP between a researcher, a person with MND and their proxy, recorded in Switzerland.

Results: The way in which the proxy and the researcher orient to the person with MND changes throughout the interview. In the beginning, they recognize the person with MND as a knowledgeable and competent participant (facilitating answers or allowing her to speak first). Later, practices bypass the speakership primacy of the person with MND (correcting or describing her as dependent). The person with MND sometimes resists these stances, for example by contradicting her proxy's answer.

Discussion and Implications: Our study contributes to understandings of how the epistemic rights of a person with MND to participate and provide information within interactions are constructed variably. This has implications for promoting the people with MND's individual and relational autonomy in interactions and decision-making and developing awareness-raising resources about how to improve the conditions of decisional autonomy of people with MND.
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Balaman2026

2026-03-02T10:35:09Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Ufuk Balaman; |Title=Managing negative evaluation and alternative action proposals using modal verb constructions: Pre-service teachers..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Ufuk Balaman;
|Title=Managing negative evaluation and alternative action proposals using modal verb constructions: Pre-service teachers’ academic language use in video-mediated interactions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Interactional linguistics; Conversation analysis; Construction; Modal verbs; Video-mediated interaction; Teacher education
|Key=Balaman2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of English for Academic Purposes
|Volume=80
|Number=March 2026
|Pages=101648
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158526000202
|DOI=10.1016/j.jeap.2026.101648
|Abstract=This study deals with pre-service teachers' use of English for academic purposes in video-mediated interactional settings and is situated at the interface of interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and language teacher education. Using multimodal conversation analysis as the research methodology and drawing on the grammar-in-interaction perspective informed by interactional linguistics, this study investigates pre-service teachers' collaborative video analysis meetings based on video clips taken from real classrooms of other, more experienced teachers. In and through video-mediated multiparty interactions, the participants (pre-service teachers) critically analyze teacher classroom interactional practices with divergent evaluative stances (i.e., on a gradient of positive to negative). Specifically dealing with negative evaluations based on a collection of cases, the study shows how pre-service teachers display their negative evaluative stances using a specific grammatical construction consisting of third-person subject pronoun, modal auxiliary verb, and alternative action proposals. In doing so, the participants jointly achieve identifying ‘what could be done’ differently in language classrooms, while also collectively portraying ‘ideal’ teaching practices in situ by proposing alternative courses of actions. The findings bring new insights into grammar-in-interaction, video-mediated interactions, EAP, and language teacher education research.
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Breukelman2026

2026-03-02T10:32:53Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Mieke Breukelman; Wyke J. P. Stommel; Chris M. Verhaak; Anke J. M. Oerlemans |Title=Future gender in pediatric transgender and DSD/inter..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Mieke Breukelman; Wyke J. P. Stommel; Chris M. Verhaak; Anke J. M. Oerlemans
|Title=Future gender in pediatric transgender and DSD/intersex consultations: a conversation analysis
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Transgender care; Differences of sex development/intersex care; Pediatric care; Gender; Conversation analysis; Membership categorization analysis; Medical interaction
|Key=Breukelman2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Science & Medicine
|Volume=396
|Number=May 2026
|Pages=119100
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953626001760
|DOI=10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119100
|Abstract=No child's future gender identity can be predicted with certainty. This uncertainty can become a clinical challenge in both pediatric transgender care and differences of sex development (DSD)/intersex care, in which current predictions of a child's future gender may guide treatment decisions. Using conversation analysis, we examined video-recorded consultations in Dutch pediatric transgender and DSD/intersex care to examine how participants manage children's future gender in the here-and-now of their interactions. This article focuses on healthcare providers' sequence-initiating actions, ranging from rather unilateral to more bilateral approaches, specifically focusing on the two ends of the spectrum. We show examples of treatment assertions, where healthcare providers unilaterally relate potential treatment to a child's future gender, and bilateral perspective-display invitations, where the child's perspective on their future gender is explicitly incited. We show how treatment assertions leave little room for children to be interactionally involved, while perspective-display invitations elicit children to contribute to the local construction of their prospective gender, despite children's displayed uncertainty. Perspective-display invitations grant children epistemic authority regarding their future gender, whereas treatment assertions claim epistemic authority regarding gender-related treatment, although they do grant children deontic authority in terms of future treatment decisions. Also, treatment assertions are grounded in normative gender assumptions, but do render alternative futures possible by presenting treatment as optional. Perspective-display invitations may enable more open and collaborative challenging of gender norms. We argue that for clinical practice, particularly perspective-display invitations merit professional consideration as they facilitate children's participation and collaborative uncertainty management.
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Majlesi2026

2026-03-02T10:29:24Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Ali Reza Majlesi; |Title=Contiguous and non-contiguous instructed actions: Teaching-by-doing in cohort-organized whole-group and small-g..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Ali Reza Majlesi;
|Title=Contiguous and non-contiguous instructed actions: Teaching-by-doing in cohort-organized whole-group and small-group classroom interactions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Classroom interaction; Ethnomethodological conversation analysis; Instruction-giving; Contiguity; Multimodality; Teaching-by-doing
|Key=Majlesi2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Linguistics and Education
|Volume=92
|Number=April 2026
|Pages=101513
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589826000227
|DOI=10.1016/j.linged.2026.101513
|Abstract=This study investigates how instructional practices are temporally and multimodally organized in classroom interaction. While prior ethnomethodological conversation analytic (EMCA) research has examined how instructions are produced through talk, embodied demonstration, and material resources, less attention has been paid to how instruction shifts between distal, non-contiguous framing and immediate, contiguous procedural enactments. The data consist of 10 hours of video-recorded interaction from two settings: Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) language classrooms and STEM (mathematics/physics) courses in upper secondary education. Using EMCA, the data show how teachers and students collaboratively move between framing instructions and proceduring them through embodied, material, and spatially organized action. Instructional work unfolds along a continuum between non-contiguous instruction, where rules and principles are introduced in advance, and contiguous instruction, where instruction and enactment are laminated into the same interactional sequence. The findings demonstrate that instructional clarity is not achieved through instruction-giving alone, but through practices such as parsing, staging, and embodied directives, whereby teachers guide instruction-following through teaching-by-doing. By comparing whole-group and small-group interaction across language and STEM classrooms, the study clarifies how temporal sequencing and multimodality jointly produce instructional order and contributes to EMCA research on instruction in educational settings.
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Whitehead2026

2026-03-02T10:24:55Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Kevin A. Whitehead; Gene H. Lerner |Title=When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known and presumed..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Kevin A. Whitehead; Gene H. Lerner
|Title=When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known and presumed unknown
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Person reference; Storytelling; Membership categories; Recognitional reference; Reported speech
|Key=Whitehead2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Pragmatics
|URL=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/prag.25001.whi
|DOI=10.1075/prag.25001.whi
|Abstract=Sacks and Schegloff (1979; Schegloff 1996) identify a preference for recognitional references to persons over non-recognitional forms of references. Furthermore, they identify as a subsidiary preference that, among recognitional forms, personal names are preferred over recognitional descriptors. However, as Sacks and Schegloff indicate, these preferences in no way limit the use of names to conclusively recognizable persons, nor do they even inhibit references to persons by name when recognition is not at all practicable. In this report, we first describe those practices that manage (and thereby exhibit) levels of confidence regarding the recognizability of personal names. We then examine several environments in which personal names are employed in introducing persons as previously unknown to recipients, and we describe one family of practices for doing so. Finally, we identify storytelling as a principal environment in which personal names are used, and we describe where unknown persons are introduced by storytellers.
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