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Hutchinson2026a

2026-08-10T11:40:56Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Phil Hutchinson; |Title=“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction |Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Stigma; Goffm..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Phil Hutchinson;
|Title=“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Stigma; Goffman; HIV; Medical interaction
|Key=Hutchinson2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Symbolic Interaction
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/symb.70068
|DOI=10.1002/symb.70068
|Abstract=This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned. To understand stigma, we must turn from theorizing the concept to examining the lived and situated practices it glosses. The argument for this praxeological respecification unfolds in three stages. First, I argue that “stigma” does not name a discrete attribute or entity, but is a term used to denote and gloss a heterogeneous set of social experiences. Second, I show that these experiences are produced and made accountable in and through interaction. Third, I argue that our analyses must recover the Gestalt contexture—the praxeologically produced contextual whole—through which participants in an interaction see what is happening as stigmatizing or otherwise. This is an immanent, not theoretical, undertaking. Attempts to frame these experiences through the application of external explanatory frameworks often obscure the very dynamics under investigation. I conclude with a brief analysis of an extract from a publicly available interactional case: a live-streamed panel discussion on HIV stigma, available on YouTube. In this setting, stigma appears not as an abstract structure or inner experience, but as a public, contested, and reflexively managed feature of social life.
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Heritage2026

2026-08-09T07:54:21Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=John Heritage; Jeffrey D. Robinson |Title=On the perimeter of preference: Low-stakes polar questions |Tag(s)=EMCA; Polar question; Gramm..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=John Heritage; Jeffrey D. Robinson
|Title=On the perimeter of preference: Low-stakes polar questions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Polar question; Grammatical form; Interrogative; Information seeking; Preference; Response timing; Socio-relational risk
|Key=Heritage2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=262
|Number=September 2026
|Pages=42-59
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037821662600127X
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.05.011
|Abstract=It is widely accepted that positively framed polar questions invite affirmative responses, and that this contributes to the implementation of preference organization. This article investigates the limits of such implementation with the aim of determining the perimeter of preference. Across American- and British-English corpora of ordinary conversation, we collected all positively framed polar questions that were answered with vocal, unmitigated disaffirmation (e.g., No) within 300 ms, a timeframe characteristic of preferred answer types. Using Conversation Analysis and descriptive statistics to inductively examine our core collection of 121 sequences, we identify three properties of what we term ‘low-stakedness’ in positively framed polar questions: The questions: (1) implement the action of information seeking (vs. recruitment, etc.); (2) are formatted as interrogatives (vs. more conducive formats, e.g., declaratives); and (3) propose states of affairs about facts in the world (vs. recipient or third-party conduct/actions). We argue that these ‘low stakes’ questions evoke low levels of socio-relational risk, which infuses many manifestations of preference organization. We conclude that, in the case of these ‘low stakes’ questions, question design, per se, does not contribute to preference-organizational features of responses. We examine boundary cases suggesting that, as socio-relational risk increases, so too do the pressures of preference organization.
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Burdelski2026b

2026-08-09T07:52:23Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Matthew Burdelski; Olga Anatoli Smith; Asta Cekaite; |Title=Environmental noticings on the move: Interactional affordances and children..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Matthew Burdelski; Olga Anatoli Smith; Asta Cekaite;
|Title=Environmental noticings on the move: Interactional affordances and children’s engagement during preschool walks
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Affordance; Children; Conversation analysis; Environmental noticing; Japan; Sweden; Walking outdoors; Walking; In press
|Key=Burdelski2026b
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Children's Geographies
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/14733285.2026.2662331
|DOI=10.1080/14733285.2026.2662331
|Abstract=This paper examines how preschool children and teachers engage in environmental noticings of mundane phenomena (e.g., bird, spider web) during group walks outdoors. Drawing on over 100 hours of audiovisual recordings from preschools in Sweden and Japan, it uses multimodal conversation analysis to examine how such noticings are accomplished through talk, gesture, and movement. Rather than treating noticing as an internal cognitive process, we conceptualize it as a publicly organized practice through which participants draw one another's attention to features of their surroundings. The analysis shows that environmental noticings involve several interactional practices, including descriptive elaboration, confirming that others perceive the same features, and extending the interaction beyond the immediate scene. Through these practices, children and teachers attend to, characterize, and make sense of both human and non-human elements of their surroundings. We argue that environmental noticings constitute an important interactional vehicle through which children's social and emotional engagement with the environment is accomplished in everyday pedagogical mobility. By foregrounding the interactional organization of noticing during preschool walks, the study contributes to children's geographies by demonstrating how relations to environments are produced in situ through embodied, mobile interaction.
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Vanttinen2026

2026-08-09T07:49:43Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Minttu Vänttinen; Mikko Kuronen; Pinja Kemppinen; Paulina Nyman-Koskinen |Title=Engaging a peer in task-interaction during a digital la..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Minttu Vänttinen; Mikko Kuronen; Pinja Kemppinen; Paulina Nyman-Koskinen
|Title=Engaging a peer in task-interaction during a digital language game
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Multimodal conversation analysis; Engagement; Participation; Peer interaction; Digital language game
|Key=Vanttinen2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Linguistics and Education
|Volume=94
|Number=August 2026
|Pages=101565
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589826000744
|DOI=10.1016/j.linged.2026.101565
|Abstract=This study investigates adolescent students’ engagement during a digital language game that has been designed to facilitate learning Swedish as a second language (L2). Previous CA research on participation and engagement in educational contexts has focused on teachers’ practices of engaging students in pedagogical interactions, while student elicitations of their peers’ engagement have received less attention. The data consist of video recordings of eight Finnish-speaking learners playing a narrative language game with multiple-choice questions in Swedish. The participants played the game face-to-face in pairs on single tablet computers. The data have been analyzed using multimodal CA, which involves a micro-level, sequential transcription and analysis of human interaction. The analysis focuses on the verbal and embodied resources and practices that participants use to engage a peer in the game and task interaction. The findings illustrate the use of directive actions, recruitments, requests for confirmation, and response pursuits. We show how these practices can either primarily target the peer’s participation or indirectly prompt their engagement as a type of a side trajectory, with the primary orientation to finding the correct answer with the peer’s help. In both cases the interaction results in the peer displaying more engaged participation in task interaction. The study thus sheds light on the role of students in creating opportunities for participation in L2 learning.
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Waring2026a

2026-08-09T07:46:26Z

JakubMlynar:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Hansun Zhang Waring; Yo-An Lee;
|Title=Conversation analysis for artificial intelligence
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis (CA); Artificial intelligence (AI); Wizard of oz (WoZ); Large language model (LLM); ChatGPT; Human-AI interaction (HAI); Artificial Intelligence; AI Reference List
|Key=Waring2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
|Volume=5
|Number=3
|Pages=100324
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2772766126000303
|DOI=10.1016/j.rmal.2026.100324
|Abstract=Transforming the analytic and technological landscape, the recent rise of generative AI has sparked a surge of scholarly pursuits across a diversity of methodological terrains, and conversation analysis is no exception. With this exciting new direction also comes the need to examine the extent to which CA has advanced as a methodology for examining human-AI interaction (HAI). Based on a carefully curated corpus of “CA for AI” studies, this paper offers a brief summary of conversation analytic (CA) findings on HAI to date, examines the various methodological aspects of such studies, and provides a methodological illustration of what a CA analysis of human-AI interaction (HAI) looks like. These various attempts culminate in a reflection on a set of challenges that characterize the use of CA for investigating HAI as well as ways of navigating these challenges, thereby forming a benchmark for future research in CA-HAI in applied linguistics.
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Waring2026a

2026-08-09T07:46:06Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Hansun Zhang Waring; Yo-An Lee; |Title=Conversation analysis for artificial intelligence |Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis (CA); Artif..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Hansun Zhang Waring; Yo-An Lee;
|Title=Conversation analysis for artificial intelligence
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis (CA); Artificial intelligence (AI); Wizard of oz (WoZ); Large language model (LLM); ChatGPT; Human-AI interaction (HAI)
|Key=Waring2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
|Volume=5
|Number=3
|Pages=100324
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2772766126000303
|DOI=10.1016/j.rmal.2026.100324
|Abstract=Transforming the analytic and technological landscape, the recent rise of generative AI has sparked a surge of scholarly pursuits across a diversity of methodological terrains, and conversation analysis is no exception. With this exciting new direction also comes the need to examine the extent to which CA has advanced as a methodology for examining human-AI interaction (HAI). Based on a carefully curated corpus of “CA for AI” studies, this paper offers a brief summary of conversation analytic (CA) findings on HAI to date, examines the various methodological aspects of such studies, and provides a methodological illustration of what a CA analysis of human-AI interaction (HAI) looks like. These various attempts culminate in a reflection on a set of challenges that characterize the use of CA for investigating HAI as well as ways of navigating these challenges, thereby forming a benchmark for future research in CA-HAI in applied linguistics.
}}

Icbay2026b

2026-08-09T07:44:08Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Mehmet Ali Icbay; |Title=Repair on the Page: Accountability in Handwritten Academic Writing |Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Repair; Handwritten..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Mehmet Ali Icbay;
|Title=Repair on the Page: Accountability in Handwritten Academic Writing
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Repair; Handwritten essays; Accountability; Ethnomethodology; Irreversibility
|Key=Icbay2026b
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Human Studies
|URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-026-09854-0
|DOI=10.1007/s10746-026-09854-0
|Abstract=This paper explores written repair in handwritten undergraduate essays from an ethnomethodological perspective. Rather than treating corrections as surface imperfections or indicators of deficient competence, this paper approaches strikethroughs, overwriting, insertions, arrows, and marginal additions as members’ methods for maintaining intelligibility in the course of text production. The data consist primarily of handwritten, in-class essays produced under timed, device-free conditions. The analysis shows that repair in handwriting is not external to writing but constitutive of it. Because inscription on paper is irreversible, revision cannot be fully erased. Instead, it remains publicly available as a record of practical reasoning. Rejected formulations, retrofitted additions, and re-routed reading paths display how writers monitor emerging trouble and locally recalibrate wording, relevance, and textual fit. In this sense, handwritten essays preserve a visible history of their own production. The paper contributes to ethnomethodological studies of written discourse by showing that repair is a documentable textual accomplishment through which academic writing is reflexively made accountable.
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Jimenez2026

2026-08-09T07:41:23Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Patricia Jimenez; Younhee Kim; Richard Fitzgerald; |Title=Making sense of AI: how lay users negotiate the shifting human–machine bound..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Patricia Jimenez; Younhee Kim; Richard Fitzgerald;
|Title=Making sense of AI: how lay users negotiate the shifting human–machine boundaries in talking about AI
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Artificial intelligence; Explainability; Membership Categorisation Analysis; Membership Categorization Analysis; Occasioned semantics; Human-Computer Interaction; AI Reference List; In Press
|Key=Jimenez2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=AI & Society
|URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03164-w
|DOI=10.1007/s00146-026-03164-w
|Abstract=This paper examines how lay users make sense of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday encounters and through practical reasoning and situated categorisation practices. Drawing on data from digital diaries and in-person group discussions, the study explores the local and situated ways lay users determine what kind of “thing” AI is, what it does, and how it should be judged. Rather than approaching AI as a fixed defined entity, the paper centres in participants procedures for meaning making. Specifically, the analysis focuses on three categorisation practices: the relational exclusion of the human-machine device, the assemblage of branched taxonomies, and the troubling of categorial boundaries. These practices reflect an ongoing negotiation of intelligibility, in which AI is explained not through formal and technically accurate definitions but through occasioned and socially recognisable use of every day categories. The paper draws on Membership Categorisation Analysis and Occasioned Semantics to show that the intelligibility of AI is both locally and culturally accomplished. In doing so, the paper reframes the notion of AI explainability as a situated achievement of human reasoning, rather than a system’s feature. An insight, we hope would have implications, if not at least a provocation, to the field of explainable AI and, more broadly, to the way we understand AI literacy, trust, and the everyday grammar of intelligence.
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Padua2024

2026-08-09T07:36:17Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Joao Pedro Padua |Title=Ethnomethodology of written discourse: An analytical model for treating written discourse as ongoing social acti..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Joao Pedro Padua
|Title=Ethnomethodology of written discourse: An analytical model for treating written discourse as ongoing social action
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Written discourse; Text; Discourse analysis; Ethnomethodology; Qualitative methods
|Key=Padua2024
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=222
|Number=March 2024
|Pages=1-16
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037821662300320X
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2023.12.017
|Abstract=Ethnomethodology has been influential in many social science fields, including and especially applied linguistics, where conversation analysis is a major subfield for analyzing oral data. Nevertheless, ethnomethodology can also be—and has been—fruitfully applied to written discursive data, using its tools and methods to describe in detail how written texts are assembled and reflexively used, as members’ methods, for doing and displaying social actions. This paper proposes an open analytical model to capture existing ethnomethodological analyses of written discourse and create a more transparent and replicable protocol for new analyses. I reconstruct ethnomethodology as set of assumptions and principles, review seminal research that used these principles to analyze written discourse, and present the master concept of “active text” that encapsulates them. I then construct a hierarchical prospective-retrospective model to formalize the methods used in ethnomethodology of written discourse. I use the model to reconstruct the analytical methods of two papers to show how it can be used for transparency and replication. The discussion section covers modelling in qualitative applied linguistics and ethnomethodology, and ends with some conclusions.
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Licoppe2026a

2026-08-09T07:34:42Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Christian Licoppe; |Title=Personal noticings in video calls and doing being friends |Tag(s)=EMCA; Relationships; Friendship; Conversatio..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Christian Licoppe;
|Title=Personal noticings in video calls and doing being friends
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Relationships; Friendship; Conversation analysis; Noticing; Personal noticing: relevance rules; Video Calls
|Key=Licoppe2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=264
|Number=October 2026
|Pages=17-33
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216626001542
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.07.004
|Abstract=In this article, I focus on an interactional practice, personal noticings', in which a participant comments on something related to another's appearance, behavior, or environment. From the perspective of conversation analysis, I discuss the organization of these sequences and show how they put into play relational issues between participants. I then show that the affordances of video-mediated communication facilitate the production of personal noticings and analyze various examples of personal noticings made during video-mediated conversations between friends, as well as the relational work accomplished during these sequences. The case of personal noticings in video-mediated conversations illustrates how it is possible to precisely study the dynamics between interpersonal relationships and mediated forms of sociability at the level of the interactional practices themselves.
}}

Habscheid2025

2026-07-20T07:43:26Z

JakubMlynar:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Christine Hrncal;
|Title=Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating Voice-Controlled Assistance Technologies
|Editor(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann; David Waldecker;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Voice Assistants; Home
|Key=Habscheid2025
|Publisher=transcript Verlag
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Address=Bielefeld
|Booktitle=Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
|Pages=207-239
|URL=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839472002-008
|DOI=10.14361/9783839472002-008
|Series=Media in Action
|Abstract=This chapter explores the linguistic practices involved in the domestication of voice-controlled smart speakers, drawing on findings from our research project “Un/desired observation in interaction: Intelligent Personal Assistants”, conducted in Germany from 2020 to 2023. First, the characteristics of smart speakers and the methodological challenges of studying them empirically are outlined. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of how perspectives from interaction research and from linguistic media research can be integrated to complement one another. The empirical part of the chapter first elucidates the organizational characteristics of ‘VUI dialogue’ and then the organizational integration of VUIs in social interaction in multi-party constellations. Finally, we show how everyday usage practices in households are shaped by the linguistic conditions of their mediation on both organizational levels. The analyses also address the limitations of voice assistants asexperienced by users, particularly when devices fail to meet expectations. Thus, this chapter sheds light on the complex dynamics of human–technology relationships and takes into account social and linguistic dimensions of technology domestication.
}}

Oloff2025

2026-07-20T07:43:03Z

JakubMlynar:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Florence Oloff;
|Title=“Oh, Now I have to Speak”: Older Adults’ First Encounters with Voice-based Applications in Smartphone Courses
|Editor(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann; David Waldecker
|Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Conversation analysis; Voice assistants; Smartphone use
|Key=Oloff2025
|Publisher=transcript Verlag
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Address=Bielefeld
|Booktitle=Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
|Pages=147-179
|URL=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839472002-006
|DOI=10.14361/9783839472002-006
|Series=Media in Action
|Abstract=This chapter deals with the question of what we can learn from interaction in institutional settings about the usability and learnability of everyday technologies such as voice-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs), especially for older adults or, more generally, less-expert technology users. Based on an analysis of video recordings made during smartphone courses in adult education centers in Germany, this contribution provides a qualitative and micro-analytical perspective on non-expert adult users’ processes of discovering and exploring voice-based technologies. Using the framework of multimodal conversation analysis, both linguistic formats and embodied actions are examined, revealing the participants’ situated and dynamic understandings of how one type of IPA (as a smartphone app or widget) works and operates. The analysis of these either guided or accidental discoveries of a new technology can provide new insights regarding the specific challenges associated with handling IPAs and instructing new users how to do so. Based on these observations, this chapter also provides some general thoughts on teaching digital skills to less-expert users.
}}

Oloff2025

2026-07-20T07:39:37Z

JakubMlynar:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Florence Oloff;
|Title=“Oh, Now I have to Speak”: Older Adults’ First Encounters with Voice-based Applications in Smartphone Courses
|Editor(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann; David Waldecker
|Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Conversation analysis; Voice assistants; Smartphone use
|Key=Oloff2025
|Publisher=transcript Verlag
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Booktitle=Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
|Pages=147-179
|URL=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839472002-006
|DOI=10.14361/9783839472002-006
|Abstract=This chapter deals with the question of what we can learn from interaction in institutional settings about the usability and learnability of everyday technologies such as voice-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs), especially for older adults or, more generally, less-expert technology users. Based on an analysis of video recordings made during smartphone courses in adult education centers in Germany, this contribution provides a qualitative and micro-analytical perspective on non-expert adult users’ processes of discovering and exploring voice-based technologies. Using the framework of multimodal conversation analysis, both linguistic formats and embodied actions are examined, revealing the participants’ situated and dynamic understandings of how one type of IPA (as a smartphone app or widget) works and operates. The analysis of these either guided or accidental discoveries of a new technology can provide new insights regarding the specific challenges associated with handling IPAs and instructing new users how to do so. Based on these observations, this chapter also provides some general thoughts on teaching digital skills to less-expert users.
}}

Habscheid2025

2026-07-20T07:38:00Z

JakubMlynar:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Christine Hrncal;
|Title=Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating Voice-Controlled Assistance Technologies
|Editor(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann; David Waldecker;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Voice Assistants; Home
|Key=Habscheid2025
|Publisher=transcript Verlag
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Booktitle=Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
|Pages=207-239
|URL=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839472002-008
|DOI=10.14361/9783839472002-008
|Abstract=This chapter explores the linguistic practices involved in the domestication of voice-controlled smart speakers, drawing on findings from our research project “Un/desired observation in interaction: Intelligent Personal Assistants”, conducted in Germany from 2020 to 2023. First, the characteristics of smart speakers and the methodological challenges of studying them empirically are outlined. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of how perspectives from interaction research and from linguistic media research can be integrated to complement one another. The empirical part of the chapter first elucidates the organizational characteristics of ‘VUI dialogue’ and then the organizational integration of VUIs in social interaction in multi-party constellations. Finally, we show how everyday usage practices in households are shaped by the linguistic conditions of their mediation on both organizational levels. The analyses also address the limitations of voice assistants asexperienced by users, particularly when devices fail to meet expectations. Thus, this chapter sheds light on the complex dynamics of human–technology relationships and takes into account social and linguistic dimensions of technology domestication.
}}

Habscheid2025

2026-07-20T07:37:02Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Christine Hrncal; |Title=Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating Voice-Controlled Assistance Tec..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Christine Hrncal;
|Title=Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating Voice-Controlled Assistance Technologies
|Editor(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann; David Waldecker;
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Habscheid2025
|Publisher=transcript Verlag
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Booktitle=Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
|Pages=207-239
|URL=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839472002-008
|DOI=10.14361/9783839472002-008
|Abstract=This chapter explores the linguistic practices involved in the domestication of voice-controlled smart speakers, drawing on findings from our research project “Un/desired observation in interaction: Intelligent Personal Assistants”, conducted in Germany from 2020 to 2023. First, the characteristics of smart speakers and the methodological challenges of studying them empirically are outlined. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of how perspectives from interaction research and from linguistic media research can be integrated to complement one another. The empirical part of the chapter first elucidates the organizational characteristics of ‘VUI dialogue’ and then the organizational integration of VUIs in social interaction in multi-party constellations. Finally, we show how everyday usage practices in households are shaped by the linguistic conditions of their mediation on both organizational levels. The analyses also address the limitations of voice assistants asexperienced by users, particularly when devices fail to meet expectations. Thus, this chapter sheds light on the complex dynamics of human–technology relationships and takes into account social and linguistic dimensions of technology domestication.
}}

Oloff2025

2026-07-20T07:32:37Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=INCOLLECTION |Author(s)=Florence Oloff; |Title=“Oh, Now I have to Speak”: Older Adults’ First Encounters with Voice-based Applications in Smartphone..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Florence Oloff;
|Title=“Oh, Now I have to Speak”: Older Adults’ First Encounters with Voice-based Applications in Smartphone Courses
|Editor(s)=Stephan Habscheid; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann; David Waldecker
|Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Conversation analysis; Voice assistants; Smartphone use
|Key=Oloff2025
|Publisher=transcript Verlag
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Booktitle=Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
|Pages=147-180
|URL=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390034630_Oh_Now_I_have_to_Speak_Older_Adults'_First_Encounters_with_Voice-based_Applications_in_Smartphone_Courses
|DOI=10.14361/9783839472002-006
|Abstract=Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, media and data practices under platformized conditions and new interfaces. This collection thus brings together perspectives from media sociology, media studies, media linguistics and domestication research.
}}

Stokoe2026b

2026-06-23T07:07:56Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Saul Albert; Cathy Pearl |Title=What is “conversational” about conversational technologies, products, and services..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Saul Albert; Cathy Pearl
|Title=What is “conversational” about conversational technologies, products, and services? Insights from conversation analysis
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Technology; AI; LLMs; Language; Social interaction; AI Reference List; In press
|Key=Stokoe2026b
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
|URL=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-review-of-applied-linguistics/article/what-is-conversational-about-conversational-technologies-products-and-services-insights-from-conversation-analysis/E9B905F354920A46EBE73985AD8C9D5C
|DOI=10.1017/S0267190526100233
|Abstract=“Conversational” technologies, products, and services are in the headlines more than ever. But what does it mean to be “conversational?” We address this question through the lens of six decades of empirical research in conversation analysis, which has identified and described the foundational structure and interactional machinery of human sociality. We consider not only how tacit notions of “conversationality” manifest in technologies, products, and services, such as role-play, communication training, and chatbots, but also in research methodologies such as focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and laboratory studies – all of which rarely acknowledge how researcher–participant interaction shapes the data collected. Drawing on a range of examples from different institutional settings, we consider how and whether such technologies can or should leverage “conversation” in ways that reproduce “naturalistic” interactions – and ask what might count as “naturalistic” in this context anyway? We argue that if human conversationality becomes a benchmark, then humans themselves will fail tests derived from normative, not empirical, understandings of how social interaction works.
}}

Yang2026

2026-06-23T06:45:09Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Bo Yang; Oskar Lindwall; Christian Licoppe |Title=Coherence through sedimentation: Temporal organization and emergent interaction in Dan..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Bo Yang; Oskar Lindwall; Christian Licoppe
|Title=Coherence through sedimentation: Temporal organization and emergent interaction in Danmaku
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Danmaku; Coherence; Discourse; Computer-mediated-communication; Asynchronous interaction; pseudo-synchronous interaction
|Key=Yang2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse, Context & Media
|Volume=72
|Number=August 2026
|Pages=101033
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695826000607
|DOI=10.1016/j.dcm.2026.101033
|Abstract=This paper examines how coherence and participation are accomplished in danmaku, a commentary system on Chinese and Japanese video platforms where user comments scroll across the screen and are time-stamped to specific points on the video timeline. Although comments are produced asynchronously, they appear synchronously during playback, creating what has been described as pseudo-synchronicity (Johnson, 2013; Liang, 2021). Building on research in computer-mediated communication (CMC), the paper investigates how interaction in danmaku is organized through multiple temporalities: the time of video playback, the time of message production, and the time of subsequent viewing. Drawing on a dataset of educational danmaku videos, we analyze how comments become sequentially and thematically linked through practices such as noticings, choral clustering, and indexical reference. The analysis demonstrates that coherence in danmaku emerges through stigmergic processes of sedimentation: participants leave visible traces that persist and accumulate, gradually transforming the comment stream into an interactional infrastructure that future viewers orient to. Much like graffiti layered across a public wall, danmaku commentary builds into an accumulated record of participation that becomes integral to the video itself. By foregrounding these temporal and stigmergic dimensions, the paper shows how danmaku reconfigures audience roles, blurs distinctions between live and asynchronous participation, and extends participation frameworks, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of emerging digitally mediated interaction in asynchronous, distributed settings.
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IIEMCA 2027 Call for Presentation Abstracts

2026-06-22T13:35:31Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Conference |Full title=IIEMCA 2027 Call for Presentation Abstracts |Short title=IIEMCA 2027 Papers |Short summary=The call for IIEMCA 2027 pr..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=IIEMCA 2027 Call for Presentation Abstracts
|Short title=IIEMCA 2027 Papers
|Short summary=The call for IIEMCA 2027 presentation abstracts is open: inviting submissions of presentations that are aligned with the conference theme and fit within the fields of ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and related fields.
|Announcement text=IIEMCA27 will be held at Wits in Johannesburg South Africa from 6 - 9 July 2027.

We welcome submissions of presentations that are aligned with the conference theme and fit within the fields of ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and related fields. Submissions are inclusive of a title, keywords and 500-word abstract. Individual paper presentations will be 15 - 20 mins long, followed by a 5 - 10 min Q&A.

Note: During the submission process, applicants can select to present within a general or specific panel. Selecting a panel does not guarantee acceptance into the panel. To aid the blind review process, you will need to select the approach that best fits your paper: Ethnomethodology; Conversation Analysis; Membership Categorisation Analysis; Interactional Linguistics; Ethnography; Discursive Psychology; Other.

*Submissions are restricted to one first author application per applicant. However, co-authorship of additional papers is supported.

CALL DETAILS

Opens: 1 September 2026

Closes: 23 October 2026, midnight SAST

Information and Submission link: For more information and to access the submission portal visit https://www.iiemca27.org/calls

Queries: interact.hmn@wits.ac.za or catherine.tam@wits.ac.za
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://www.iiemca27.org/calls
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/09/01
|To date=2026/10/23
|Submission deadline=2026/10/23
}}

IIEMCA 2027 Call for Panel Abstracts

2026-06-22T13:31:56Z

JakubMlynar:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=IIEMCA 2027 Call for Panel Abstracts
|Short title=IIEMCA 2027 Panels
|Short summary=The call for IIEMCA 2027 panels is open: inviting submissions of panel proposals within the fields of ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and related fields.
|Announcement text=IIEMCA27 will be held at Wits in Johannesburg South Africa from 6 - 9 July 2027.

The call for panels is open. We invite submissions of panel proposals within the fields of ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and related fields. We welcome proposals aligned with the conference theme. Submissions are inclusive of a title, keywords and 700-word abstract.

To aid the blind review process, you will need to select the approach that best fits your paper: Ethnomethodology; Conversation Analysis; Membership Categorisation Analysis; Interactional Linguistics; Ethnography; Discursive Psychology; Other.

Note: Accepted panels will consist of 4 to 10 individual paper presentations. For the conference, panel organizers will be required to peer review individual paper submissions for their panel, register for and attend the conference and to facilitate the panel (introduce presentations, facilitate Q&As, &, where possible, run a final panel discussion).

*Submissions are restricted to one panel application per applicant.

CALL DETAILS

Opens: 1 April 2026

Closes: 17 July 2026 (this is the new date incl. an extension), midnight SAST

More Information and FAQs: https://www.iiemca27.org/calls

Submission link: http://www.exbo.co.za/abstracts/index.php?conf=IIEMCA27P

Queries: interact.hmn@wits.ac.za or catherine.tam@wits.ac.za
|Year=2026
|Web link=http://www.exbo.co.za/abstracts/index.php?conf=IIEMCA27P
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|To date=2026/07/17
|Submission deadline=2026/07/17
}}

IIEMCA 2027 Call for Panel Abstracts

2026-06-22T13:30:46Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Conference |Full title=IIEMCA 2027 Call for Panel Abstracts |Short title=IIEMCA 2027 Panels |Short summary=The call for IIEMCA 2027 panels is..."

EMCATeaching

2026-06-22T07:04:45Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Other |Full title=EMCATeaching |Short title=Teaching EMCA |Short summary=Survey study on "Teaching EMCA: Practices, challenges, and reflectio..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Other
|Full title=EMCATeaching
|Short title=Teaching EMCA
|Short summary=Survey study on "Teaching EMCA: Practices, challenges, and reflections in a diverse community"
|Announcement text=The project is titled “Teaching EMCA: Practices, challenges, and reflections in a diverse community.” It explores how Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) is taught across different academic and institutional contexts worldwide.

This study builds on earlier ethnographic exploration of the EMCA community (Icbay, 2026, published in Symbolic Interaction and avaliable here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/symb.70010) and aims to document and reflect on teaching practices, challenges, and rewards across the community.

The survey consists of six sections of open-ended questions and takes approximately 45 minutes to complete: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=IfcEBVHUK0C4hDgUKFWeOaCxuUYkslpNhxS2cen8etJUN0JOM1pPUlVSNFlUQzg0M0FPQ1IwWTI0QS4u

Participation is entirely voluntary. Respondents may also request a Word version of the survey if they would prefer to complete it at their own pace. They can contact Dr. Mehmet Ali Icbay at micbay@wu.ac.at or maicbay@gmail.com.
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=IfcEBVHUK0C4hDgUKFWeOaCxuUYkslpNhxS2cen8etJUN0JOM1pPUlVSNFlUQzg0M0FPQ1IwWTI0QS4u
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|To date=2026/12/31
|Location=-0.11959, -85.03664
}}

Wiggins2026

2026-06-21T12:10:09Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Leelo Keevallik; |Title=Disgust at the Table: The Sequential Location and Production of Young Children's Food Disgust Exp..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Sally Wiggins; Leelo Keevallik;
|Title=Disgust at the Table: The Sequential Location and Production of Young Children's Food Disgust Expressions in the Home and Preschool
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Eating; Conversation analysis; In Press
|Key=Wiggins2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Research on Children and Social Interaction
|URL=https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/rcsi-2025-0006
|DOI=10.3138/rcsi-2025-0006
|Abstract=Children's understanding of disgust has been investigated experimentally from an individual perspective, but little is known about their expressions of disgust in everyday settings. Disgust has also been associated with, but not directly examined within, food refusal during mealtimes. Using a discursive psychological analysis of food disgust expressions in the home and preschool, this article examines how disgust becomes interactionally relevant at key moments within eating trajectories during everyday mealtimes. Data are taken from two corpora of video-recorded meals in Scotland (homes) and Sweden (preschool) with a focus on expressions such as bleurgh or ugh. The analyses evidence the production of children's disgust expressions at transitional moments during the meal, when food is brought to the table, to the plate, or to the mouth. The implications of the findings for work on disgust expressions and children's refusal of food during eating trajectories are discussed.
}}

Due2026

2026-06-21T12:07:26Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Brian L. Due; |Title=A Post-Praxeological Approach to Multispecies Assemblages: The Case of Human-Plant Interactions at a Farm |Tag(s)=E..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Brian L. Due;
|Title=A Post-Praxeological Approach to Multispecies Assemblages: The Case of Human-Plant Interactions at a Farm
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Conversation analysis; Assemblage theory; Multispecies; Human-plant interaction; Ethnomethodology; Post-praxeology
|Key=Due2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Human Studies
|URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-026-09843-3
|DOI=10.1007/s10746-026-09843-3
|Abstract=This article develops a post-praxeological approach to multispecies assemblages through a video-based study of human-plant interaction on a regenerative farm. Combining ethnomethodology and conversation analysis with process philosophy and assemblage theory, the paper examines how planting cucumbers emerges as a distributed accomplishment among humans, plants, soil organisms, tools, plastic infrastructures, weather conditions, and a companion dog, among other elements. The study shows how agency is not located in individual actors but distributed across heterogeneous participants. By integrating a flat ontological stance with a first-person ethnographic account and fine-grained multimodal analysis of transcribed segments, the article offers a methodological contribution to multispecies and interactional research, demonstrating how non-human participation can be rendered empirically observable without resorting to abstract generalisation or critical accounts of multispecies, posthuman justice.
}}

Housley2026

2026-06-21T12:04:01Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=BOOK |Author(s)=William Housley; Patrik Dahl; |Title=Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation |Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Ethnomethodology; C..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=BOOK
|Author(s)=William Housley; Patrik Dahl;
|Title=Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation
|Tag(s)=EMCA; AI Reference List; Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis; Interaction order; Digital technology
|Key=Housley2026
|Publisher=Emerald Publishing
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|URL=https://www.emerald.com/books/monograph/21455/Digital-Society-Interaction-Order-and-Automation
|DOI=10.1108/978-1-83753-878-2
|Abstract=In a world transformed by digital innovations and a social life increasingly digitally automated and augmented, Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation advances our understanding of how interactionist thinking can be leveraged as a conceptual and methodological resource for approaching digital societies in relation to automation and the emerging contours of interaction order in the 21st century.

Drawing on the inspirational work of Erving Goffman, Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks, alongside empirical inquiry, Housley and Dahl consider how the study of interaction order might shape a contemporary and future-oriented sociological understanding of social interaction, automation and organisation in digital times. Adopting a creative and distinct approach situated within sociological inquiry, namely interactionist sociology, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the authors explore the relationship between interaction order, synthetic sociality and socio-digital change through the lens of punctuation and automation and it’s situated production and incorporation within contemporary contours of interaction.

A timely contribution to mediating the emerging contours of digital society, this is important reading for an interdisciplinary audience that includes, sociologists, cultural theorists, social psychologists, linguists, ethnographers and computer scientists.
}}

Rudaz2026a

2026-06-21T11:53:28Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Damien Rudaz; Mathias Broth; Jakub Mlynář; |Title=Everything Counts: The Managed Omnirelevance of Speech in Human–Voice Agent Intera..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Damien Rudaz; Mathias Broth; Jakub Mlynář;
|Title=Everything Counts: The Managed Omnirelevance of Speech in Human–Voice Agent Interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Turn-taking models; Ethnomethodology; Voice Agents; Praxeology; Conversation analysis; AI Reference List; In press
|Key=Rudaz2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
|URL=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3820655
|DOI=10.1145/3820655
|Abstract=To this day, turn-taking models determining voice agents’ conduct have been examined primarily from a technical point of view, while the ways in which they emerge as interactional constraints or resources for human conversationalists in situ remain underexplored. Drawing on a detailed analysis of corpora of naturalistic data, we document how humans’ conduct was produced in reference to the ever-present risk that, each time they spoke, their talk might trigger a new uncalled-for contribution from the artificial agent. We examine this phenomenon in interactions involving rule-based robots from a ‘pre-LLM era’ as well as the most recent voice agents. This ‘omnirelevance of human speech’ (i.e., the possibility that a conversational agent may erroneously respond to any speech it detects) emerged as a constitutive feature of these human-agent encounters. We describe some of the practices through which humans managed these artificial agents’ turn-taking conduct. Given recent improvements in voice capture technology, we ask whether this ‘omnirelevance of human speech’ weighs even more heavily on human practices today than in the past.
}}

PekarekDoehler2026

2026-06-21T11:46:58Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Simona Pekarek Doehler; Agnes Löfgren; |Title=It's funny because...: From clause-combining pattern to projector construction in French..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Simona Pekarek Doehler; Agnes Löfgren;
|Title=It's funny because...: From clause-combining pattern to projector construction in French talk-in-interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Social interaction; Because-clauses; Pragmatic marker; (in)subordination; Projection; Pragmaticalization; French; Conversation analysis
|Key=PekarekDoehler2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=258
|Number=June 2026
|Pages=41-56
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037821662600055X
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.03.003
|Abstract=This paper offers an interactional multimodal analysis of linguistic usage patterns comprising parce que ‘because’ in conversational French, focusing on instances that can be schematized as [assessment + parce que + clause/multi-unit stretch of talk]. While because-clauses represent a prototypical case of subordination, previous research has shown that these are not always grammatically subordinate but can be used in pragmatic ways to perform stand-alone social actions. This paper expands on these findings by identifying two distinct usage patterns of the focal structure. In pattern I, parce que links two actions—an assessment and an account for the assessment—hence working as a pragmatic marker. Pattern II, in turn, shows a highly routinized format, the first part of which, [c'est + adjective + parce que], works as a semi-fixed, formulaic projector construction that serves to orient co-participants' attention to upcoming talk and to frame that talk in terms of the speaker's stance. Parce que here is semantically strongly reduced and has become part of a pragmatic projection routine. We further suggest that occurrences of a similar structure—[c'est + adj] without parce que (e.g., c'est intéressant ’it's interesting’, followed by a (multi-unit) stretch of talk)—may be placed further down the path on a continuum of pragmaticalization. We discuss implications of these findings for the relationship between what “on prima facie grounds” (Evans, 2007: 367) formally appear to be main and subordinate clauses, and suggest that pattern II (and its variant without parce que) may have evolved through repeated implementation of the conversational assessment-account routine materializing in pattern I.
}}

Xu2026

2026-06-21T11:44:37Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Lele Xu; Wen Ma; Xiuxiu Shen |Title=Making sense of conduct: A conversation analysis of therapist formulation in interaction with autist..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Lele Xu; Wen Ma; Xiuxiu Shen
|Title=Making sense of conduct: A conversation analysis of therapist formulation in interaction with autistic children
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Therapist formulation; Intervention; Conversation analysis; Autistic children
|Key=Xu2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=261
|Number=August 2026
|Pages=48-63
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216626001025
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.04.009
|Abstract=While formulation is pervasive in therapeutic conversation, its roles in engaging children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) warrant micro-analytic scrutiny. Adopting Conversation Analysis (CA) framework, this study investigates therapist formulation in naturally occurring interactions from Chinese-speaking ASD therapy settings. The results reveal that therapist formulation latches onto prior talk or embodied conduct to articulate unsaid, manage repair, evaluate responses, or expand topics. Sequentially, therapist formulation can exhibit a dual character which referentially looks backward preceding actions while prospectively projects next sequences surrounding ongoing topics. Notably, the children can demonstrate interactional competence in responding to such practices by deploying partial repetition, correction, or cooperation, consequently exerting active agency and co-constructing effective interaction. This study highlights the utility of formulation as an interactive resource for therapists to achieve mutual alignment with autistic children and facilitate the intervention agenda.
}}

Broth2026a

2026-06-21T11:42:24Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Mathias Broth; Erik Vinkhuyzen; Jakob Cromdal; |Title=Looking for Trouble: Pre-Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training |..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Mathias Broth; Erik Vinkhuyzen; Jakob Cromdal;
|Title=Looking for Trouble: Pre-Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training
|Tag(s)=EMCA; monitoring driving competence; driver training; autonomous vehicle testing; intervention; multimodal conversation analysis; In Press
|Key=Broth2026a
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Symbolic Interaction
|URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/symb.70051
|DOI=10.1002/symb.70051
|Abstract=We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on the driving in these two different settings. We find that in both cases the monitoring party “waits and sees” whether each type of “driving agent” will notice the impending trouble and adjust the driving appropriately. However, there are also marked differences: In the case of a driving instructor, the monitoring and intervening is a socially accountable event that may be responded to by the trainee driver, while in the case of an autonomous vehicle there are no such considerations, resulting in a difference in how the monitoring activity is embodied.
}}

Okazawa2026

2026-06-21T11:39:11Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Ryo Okazawa; |Title=When “friends” are not just friends: Managing categorial inferences in the context of third-person reference |Ta..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Ryo Okazawa;
|Title=When “friends” are not just friends: Managing categorial inferences in the context of third-person reference
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis; Membership categorization; Inference; Person reference
|Key=Okazawa2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614456261441832
|DOI=10.1177/14614456261441832
|Abstract=Drawing on ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research on the intersection of person reference and membership categorization, this study elucidates how participants manage categorial inferences when referring to a third person. To achieve this aim, I examine sequences in which the membership category term tomodachi (“friend[s]” in Japanese) is used as a third-person reference form and later reformulated or elaborated upon. The analysis demonstrates that such reference reformulation and elaboration help manage categorial inferences by clarifying a categorial inference tacitly employed by a speaker, adjusting the applicability of a categorial inference to a specific person, or invoking a new categorial inference. Such management of categorial inferences can contribute to speakers’ action formation in interaction. The findings suggest that categorial inferences may concern normative associations between multiple membership categories within different membership categorization devices.
}}

ES2026

2026-06-15T15:45:16Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Special issue, Other |Full title=Ethnographic Studies 2026 |Short title=Welcomes submissions |Short summary=Ethnographic Studies accepts subm..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Special issue, Other
|Full title=Ethnographic Studies 2026
|Short title=Welcomes submissions
|Short summary=Ethnographic Studies accepts submissions for 2026 issue.
|Announcement text=Accepting submissions for 2026 issue.

Ethnographic Studies focuses on work in ethnography and ethnomethodology but it also provides a forum for sympathetic research in other human sciences, such as psychology, history, science and technology studies, and sociology. Its aim is to promote qualitative inquiry. The policy of the journal is to publish empirical studies but also theoretical and philosophical work which relates to current issues and debates in human sciences.

Ethnographic Studies is a refereed journal.

Ethnographic Studies is an open access journal, hosted by ZHB Luzern/University Library Lucerne. The journal's contents are copyright protected by a Creative Commons license.

Principal Contact

Editorial Office

editorial@ethnographicstudies.org

For submission information and past issues, see: https://www.ethnographicstudies.org/
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://www.ethnographicstudies.org/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|To date=2026/08/15
|Submission deadline=2026/07/31
}}

Tuma2026

2026-06-11T10:21:19Z

JakubMlynar: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=František Tůma; |Title=Palm-up pointing at technical drawings in multilingual workplace interaction |Tag(s)=EMCA; Palm-up pointing ges..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=František Tůma;
|Title=Palm-up pointing at technical drawings in multilingual workplace interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Palm-up pointing gestures; Deixis; Multilingual workplaces; Meetings; Multimodal conversation analysis
|Key=Tuma2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=261
|Number=August 2026
|Pages=162-177
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216626001220
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2026.05.006
|Abstract=In materially rich workplaces, embodied actions and task-relevant materials play a central role in establishing precise deictic reference. This study focuses on multilingual workplaces where pointing at technical drawings becomes especially relevant in initiating actions, managing disalignment, and recipient-designing talk for participants with asymmetric access to the shared language. Based on four hours of video recordings of interactions involving L1 and L2 speakers of English or German in two manufacturing companies, this multimodal conversation analytic study focuses on the functions of palm-up pointing gestures directed at technical drawings. The analysis shows that palm-up pointing gestures, performed with the open palm, with a pen, and with the extended index finger, serve as resources to present the target as available for uptake across sequential environments within the local ecology of the technical drawings and the participants’ bodies. Participants use palm-up pointing to present the target as available for acceptance in sequence closings, as open for inspection in initiating actions, or for (re)consideration in responsive, predominantly disaligning, actions. In initiations and responsive actions, where competition for the floor becomes relevant, the preparation to point in pre-beginning position and sustaining of the pointing gesture throughout the turn enable speakers to enter and claim the floor. More broadly, the findings demonstrate that palm-up pointing gestures do not merely indicate targets but actively contribute to action formation, sequence organization, and turn-taking. In this way, the study contributes to our understanding of how embodied and material resources contribute to coordination and action formation in multilingual workplaces.
}}

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.
}}

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

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{{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.
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