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SemDial 2026 - LuffDial

2026-04-28T09:07:30Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference, Workshop
|Full title=SemDial 2026 - LuffDial
|Short title=LuffDial2026
|Short summary=CFP for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University - especially welcoming to #EMCA talks this year! DLs: Long papers: 17/06/26 Posters: 17/07/26.
|Announcement text===Information==

We invite submissions for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University, Loughborough UK. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.

==Topics==

Submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to:

* Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue
* Common ground and mutual belief
* Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication
* Turn-taking and interaction control
* Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
* Dialogue and discourse structure
* Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
* Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue
* Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
* Multimodal dialogue
* Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
* Dialogue management, design, and evaluation
* Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair
* Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological approaches to dialogue
* Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research

==Submission Details==

Submissions should meet the following requirements:

* Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
* Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the
title page of the submissions.
* Papers should follow the ACL formatting guidelines and use the ACL
[submission templates](https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/)
* Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files.

==Long papers:==

* 4-8 pages of content,
* (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for limitations and optionally ethical considerations,
* unlimited pages of references,
* (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be selective).

==Short papers (Posters):==

* Up to 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.
* Accepted short papers will be presented as posters at the conference.
* (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for limitations and optionally ethical considerations,
* (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be selective).

Submission: Please submit your paper via [EasyChair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2026)

==Important Dates==

* Jun 17 - Long Paper Deadline
* Jul 9 - Reviews completed
* Jul 16 - Notification
* Jul 17 - Short Paper (Poster) Deadline
* Jul 24 - Notification (Short Papers)
* Aug 6 - Camera Ready
* Aug 21 - Registration Deadline
* Sep 3–4 - SemDial 2026 – LuffDial
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://semdial2026.github.io/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/09/03
|To date=2026/09/04
|Address=Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2026/06/17
|Submission deadline=2026/06/17
|Notification date=2026/07/16
|Final version due=2026/08/06
}}

SemDial 2026 - LuffDial

2026-04-28T09:04:00Z

SaulAlbert: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Conference, Workshop |Full title=SemDial 2026 - LuffDial |Short title=LuffDial2026 |Short summary=CFP for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference, Workshop
|Full title=SemDial 2026 - LuffDial
|Short title=LuffDial2026
|Short summary=CFP for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University - especially welcoming to #EMCA talks this year! DLs: Long papers: 17/06/26 Posters: 17/07/26.
|Announcement text=Website: <https://semdial2026.github.io/>

## Information

We invite submissions for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th Workshop on
the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University,
Loughborough UK. This conference brings together researchers working on
the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines,
including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial
intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.

## Topics

Submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational,
and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue,
including but not limited to:

* Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue

* Common ground and mutual belief

* Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication

* Turn-taking and interaction control

* Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue

* Dialogue and discourse structure

* Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora

* Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue

* Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication

* Multimodal dialogue

* Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

* Dialogue management, design, and evaluation

* Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair

* Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological
approaches to dialogue

* Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research

## Submission Details

Submissions should meet the following requirements:

* Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.

* Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the
title page of the submissions.

* Papers should follow the ACL formatting guidelines and use the ACL
[submission templates](https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/)

* Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files.

Long papers:

* 4-8 pages of content,

* (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for limitations
and optionally ethical considerations,

* unlimited pages of references,

* (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be selective).

Short papers (Posters):

* Up to 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for
references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.

* Accepted short papers will be presented as posters at the conference.

* (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for limitations
and optionally ethical considerations,

* (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be selective).

Submission: Please submit your paper via
[EasyChair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2026)

## Important Dates

* Jun 17 - Long Paper Deadline

* Jul 9 - Reviews completed

* Jul 16 - Notification

* Jul 17 - Short Paper (Poster) Deadline

* Jul 24 - Notification (Short Papers)

* Aug 6 - Camera Ready

* Aug 21 - Registration Deadline

* Sep 3–4 - SemDial 2026 – LuffDial
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://semdial2026.github.io/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/09/03
|To date=2026/09/04
|Address=Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2026/06/17
|Submission deadline=2026/06/17
|Notification date=2026/07/16
|Final version due=2026/08/06
}}

LANSI2026

2026-04-03T14:18:32Z

SaulAlbert: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Conference |Full title=LANSI2026 |Short title=LANSI2026 |Short summary=Announcing the 14th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interact..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=LANSI2026
|Short title=LANSI2026
|Short summary=Announcing the 14th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI), Teacher's College, Columbia University, NYC, October 9-10, 2026. Deadline: 15th June 2026.
|Announcement text=The 14th annual meeting of

The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI)

Teachers College, Columbia University

New York City

October 9-10 (Fri & Sat), 2026

INVITED SPEAKERS

Cynthia Gordon, Georgetown University

Kevin Whitehead, UC Santa Barbara

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

LANSI brings together scholars and students working on naturally-occurring data within the broad area of language and social interaction. In keeping with the LANSI spirit of diversity and dialogue, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should include descriptions of the following aspects of the study: (1) research question; (2) data and method; (3) key finding with a short illustrative data segment. Please also include a 50-word summary.

Abstracts will be blind-reviewed on the basis of clarity, specificity, originality, and the inclusion of the required components. Papers will be presented within a 10-minute slot with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.

Deadline for electronic submission is June 15, 2026. Notification of acceptance or otherwise will be sent via email by mid-July, 2026. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi.

NEW THIS YEAR: Presenters will be invited to submit revised versions of their talks to be considered for inclusion in a mini-collection of conference proceedings to be published in Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (SALT).

Check out this reel from #lansi2025: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP6dmq8kmaj/?igsh=MXdoemRiZDBjMXVwbA==

Questions can be sent to: lansi@tc.edu

Conference Co-chairs: Hansun Zhang Waring, Alyson (Lal) Horan, and Mark Romig.

Organizing Committee:

Sean Hughes, Miriah Ralston, Jessica Coombs, Cicely Rude, and Lily Zu,
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/lansi/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/04/02
|To date=2026/10/11
|Address=Teacher's College Columbia university, NYC
|Location=40.81016, -73.96046
|Abstract due=2026/06/15
|Submission deadline=2026/06/15
|Notification date=2026/07/15
}}

Zhang2026a

2026-04-03T14:15:01Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2026-04-03 08:15:00

{{BibEntry
|Key=Zhang2026a
|Key=Zhang2026a
|Title=‘Molecules of personality change’: the interactional structure of Rogerian therapy
|Author(s)=Yuanyuan Zhang; Saul Albert; Elizabeth Peel; Jessica Robles;
|Tag(s)=Conversation analysis; Overall structural organization; Psychotherapy process; Rogerian psychotherapy; Carl Rogers; In Press
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2026
|Journal=Person-Centered \& Experiential Psychotherapies
|Volume=0
|Number=0
|Pages=1–31
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2026.2635570
|DOI=10.1080/14779757.2026.2635570
|Note=
|Abstract=Rogerian therapy has shaped person-centered care in many contexts, but its interactional structure has not previously been described systematically. Although Rogers did not specify a fixed structure for person-centered therapy sessions, he did recommend recording and analyzing the psychotherapeutic process. In this paper we use Conversation Analysis (CA) to provide the first systematic interactional account of the structure of person-centered therapy, based on Rogers’ video-recorded psychotherapy sessions from the 1950s to 1980s. Drawing on a detailed sequential and multimodal analysis of all ten publicly available ‘open data’ recordings, we identify the routine interactional phases and structures constituting Rogerian person-centered therapy in practice. The opening phase involves a) co-present recognition, b) greeting and identification, and c) settling in. The ‘telling’ phase involves eliciting and sustaining topical talk, using a core practice: a ‘telling-formulation-iteration’ sequence, which repeats until the session closing phase. Closing is conducted by a) announcing future closing, b) pre-closing, c) making arrangements, then d) a final ‘terminal exchange.’ This interactional structure shows how Rogerian therapy is co-produced as a distinctive institutional interaction, as opposed to everyday troubles-tellings or medical consultations. This study advances CA work on institutional talk and establishes an empirical benchmark for analyzing person-centered interaction across settings.
}}

Raymond2025a

2026-04-03T14:15:01Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2026-04-03 08:15:01

{{BibEntry
|Key=Raymond2025a
|Key=Raymond2025a
|Title=Language policy as interactional practice in everyday public space: The Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction
|Author(s)=Chase Wesley Raymond; Saul Albert; Elliott M. Hoey; Sarah M. Adams; Natalie Grothues; Jacob Henry; Olivia H. Marrese; Megan Pielke; Emily Reynolds; Regina Gayou Tom;
|Tag(s)=Conversation analysis; Discourse; Social interaction; Ideologies; Language policy; Open-access data; Language discrimination
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Language
|Volume=101
|Number=1
|Pages=e1–e37
|URL=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article/954236
|DOI=10.1353/lan.2025.a954236
|Note=Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
|Abstract=This article introduces the Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI)—an open-access corpus of transcribed video data, capturing moments where individuals are policed in some way for the language they are speaking or otherwise endorsing while sharing public space (e.g. in stores, restaurants, parking lots, and parks). Despite having thus far largely evaded systematic inquiry, such interactions are illustrative of a particular genre of language policymaking and enforcement that takes place in everyday social life, which the CLDI aims to document and make available for ongoing empirical examination. After presenting the corpus itself, as an initial exploration into some of the practices and actions observable in these data, we describe the recurrent use of Speak English directives, accompanied by nation-state declarative accounts like This is America. Detailed analysis of such turns, and the responses they receive, throws into relief ways that language policies and ideologies can be instantiated, ratified, challenged, defended, and otherwise negotiated in and through the particulars of interactants' joint conduct. We conclude by describing some future avenues for research, teaching, and public engagement on the basis of the CLDI.*
}}

Stokoe2024a

2026-04-03T14:14:19Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2026-04-03 08:14:19

{{BibEntry
|Key=Stokoe2024a
|Key=Stokoe2024a
|Title=Conversation analysis and conversational technologies: Finding the common ground between academia and industry
|Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Saul Albert; Hendrik Buschmeier; Wyke Stommel;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversational Technology; AI; LLM; Artificial Intelligence; Technology; Industry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Month=dec
|Journal=Discourse \& Communication
|Volume=18
|Number=6
|Pages=837–847
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241267118
|DOI=10.1177/17504813241267118
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
}}

IPRA2027

2026-04-03T13:57:24Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=IPRA2027-CFP
|Short title=IPRA2027
|Short summary=CFP: IPRA 2027 - IPC20 Helsinki 2027, Theme: Building bridges: Understanding and mitigating antagonism, conflict, and polarisation, panel deadline: 5th June 2026, talks/posters deadline: 15th October 2026.
|Announcement text=The 20th International Pragmatics Conference will be held at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027.

The Call for Papers is now open!
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/04/03
|To date=2026/10/15
|Address=Helsinki
|Location=60.16986, 24.93838
|Abstract due=2026/06/05
}}

IPRA2027

2026-04-03T13:56:55Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=IPRA2027-CFP
|Short title=IPRA2027
|Short summary=CFP: IPRA 2027 - IPC20 Helsinki 2027, Theme: Building bridges: Understanding and mitigating antagonism, conflict, and polarisation, panel deadline: 5th June 2026, talks/posters deadline: 15th October 2026.
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/04/03
|To date=2026/10/15
|Address=Helsinki
|Location=60.16986, 24.93838
|Abstract due=2026/06/05
}}

Junior SNSF researcher - interdisciplinary project on AI 2026

2026-04-03T13:53:11Z

SaulAlbert: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Job |Full title=Junior SNSF researcher - interdisciplinary project on AI 2026 |Short title=SNSF2026 |Short summary=DL: 12th April 2026: The U..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Job
|Full title=Junior SNSF researcher - interdisciplinary project on AI 2026
|Short title=SNSF2026
|Short summary=DL: 12th April 2026: The University of Lausanne is advertising a position for: 2-3 year Junior SNSF researcher (50%) in social sciences Project Objectives/Project Description The “Performing Artificial Intelligence”
|Announcement text=Career opportunities: Junior SNSF researcher (50%) in social sciences (22727)

As part of an international research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) entitled: “Performing Artificial Intelligence: Governance, Agency, Action – An Interdisciplinary Inquiry”, the Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) at the University of Lausanne is advertising a position for: Junior SNSF researcher (50%) in social sciences Project Objectives/Project Description The “Performing Artificial Intelligence”

(PAI) project aims to understand artificial intelligence as a dynamic social and cultural object, which is constructed through discourse and practice in specific contexts.

Job-related information

Effective date: June 1, 2026

Contract duration: 1 year, renewable for 2 years, maximum 3 years

Activity rate: 50%

Workplace: University of Lausanne, Géopolis

Salary: According to FNS scale and years of experience
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career_ns=job_listing&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH&rcm_site_locale=fr_FR&career_job_req_id=22727&selected_lang=fr_FR&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=Tit2b8jPojrJ0jtnFgrGy9D4WSkOzAlbnUqMTcLKUv0%3d
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/04/02
|To date=2026/04/12
|Address=University of Lausanne
|Location=46.52109, 6.58016
|Submission deadline=2026/04/12
}}

JCASP-CFP-2026

2026-02-27T15:47:35Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Special issue, Other
|Full title=JCASP-CFP-2026
|Short title=JCASP-CFP-2026
|Short summary=CFP: 30/4/2026: SI on 'Making Others' Misconduct Matter in the Public Sphere' for the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, examining how third parties such as the public, social media users or institutions manage allegations of misconduct in public
|Announcement text=Yarong Xie and Sue Widdicombe are seeking contributions to a Special Issue on Making Others' Misconduct Matter in the Public Sphere for the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. Our aim is to collect papers which broadly examine how third parties such as the public, social media users or institutions, manage, dispute, judge, excuse, and respond to allegations of misconduct in the public realm.

Would you or your colleagues be interested in submitting a paper? If so, we’d be delighted to hear from you! We would also appreciate you forwarding this to anyone you think may be interested.

More details about the issue can be found on the Journal's website:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991298/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2025-001165

Please do get in touch with Yarong or Sue (s.widdicombe@ed.ac.uk) if you have questions or would like more information.

With best wishes
Sue

-----
Call for Papers
Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere
Submission deadline: Thursday, 30 April 2026

Rationale of the Special Issue
We invite submissions for a Special Issue devoted to examining how third parties manage, dispute, judge, excuse, and respond to allegations of misconduct in the public realm. We do so in recognition of the burgeoning exposure of misconduct in the news and on social media, which seems to trigger a multitude of responses and debate from members of the public or institutions of which they are members. For instance, the public responds to racist and sexual misconduct made by officers in the force, or social media users debate high-profile cases such as the murder of George Floyd, and Prince Andrew and the Epstein Scandal. ‘Third parties’ may thus refer to the public, social media users, and representatives of organisations.

Misconduct per se invites questions and judgements about the transgressor’s morality, character, and motive. It also calls for resolution and justice, especially from institutions in which the parties are members and wider society. Once misconduct is made public in the news or on social media, judgment about the incident and its transgressor/s is also opened up for public views and debate. By responding to the misconduct, the third party treats themselves as having a right to judge and react. This transforms the social and news media into a social court in which justice/injustice is negotiated publicly. Moreover, these third party’s responses reach a large audience and can inspire and fuel further actions from the protagonists, their affiliated organisations, and/or law enforcement bodies. For social psychologists, these public responses raise important questions on attitude, morality, accountability, interpersonal and intergroup relations, trust, and more. Addressing these questions through the viewpoints of the third party, in the public realm, also allows us to evaluate and position socio-psychological sciences in a world that is digitalising and globalising.

It is against this backdrop that we call for contributions that explore the third party’s responses to misconduct in the public domain, including their nature, how they are done in practice, how ratified or challenged, and their consequences. We welcome contributions that examine a range of aspects of the third party’s responses to misconduct. We invite articles from around the world, recognising the important role of the public voice and opinions, the growing communications that take place in the public sphere and online, and an urge to seek solutions for social problems.

The kind of questions and topics that we are interested include, but are not restricted to:

Topics of interest
How third parties (e.g., social media users, news reporters and/or commentators, and institutional spokespersons) respond to and/or debate the instances of misconduct
How third parties formulate their views, opinions, and reactions toward misconduct
The structure, organisation, and consequences of responses to misconduct
Attributions of blame, accountability, and morality to transgressors or institutions
Case studies or comparative investigations of third-party responses across platforms

Guest Editors:
Dr. Sue Widdicombe
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Dr. Yarong Xie
Newcastle University
United Kingdom

Keywords: harassment; misconduct; wrongdoing
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991298/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2025-001165
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2026/02/01
|To date=2026/04/30
|Abstract due=2026/04/30
|Submission deadline=2026/04/30
}}

JCASP-CFP-2026

2026-02-27T15:47:09Z

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The EMCA wiki Admins

2026-02-02T00:18:16Z

SaulAlbert:

The EMCA wiki Admins are a group of people who volunteered to help our beloved late colleague [[Paul ten Have 1937-2022|Paul ten Have ]] maintain his [http://www.paultenhave.nl/about.htm EMCA news website] and have become an ad-hoc editorial group for this new site.

== Current admins ==

* [[User:DarceySearles|Darcey Searles]]
* [[User:BryHebenstreit|Bry Hebenstreit]]
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== Join the EMCA wiki admin group ==

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[mailto:admins@emcawiki.net Email us] and we'll get in touch, or you can contact the individual admins above by writing on their 'discussion' pages (click the link to their name, then the 'Discussion' tab).

YorCCA 2026 Conference

2026-01-31T11:44:41Z

SaulAlbert: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Conference |Full title=YorCCA 2026 Conference |Short title=YorCCA2026 |Short summary=#YorCCA conference CFP is open for submissions from PhD..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=YorCCA 2026 Conference
|Short title=YorCCA2026
|Short summary=#YorCCA conference CFP is open for submissions from PhD researchers and recent (>=2023) grads - for any work based on #EMCA or interactional linguistics. Deadline: 10th April 2026.
|Announcement text=The conference welcomes submissions from current postgraduate researchers and recent PhD graduates (PhD award date: 2023 or later) for in-person presentations or posters. The research must use conversation analysis as its primary methodology (including interactional linguistics, multimodal CA, and/or EMCA) and be based on audio-video recordings of naturally-occurring social interaction. All presentations should include audio-video clips (unless the sensitive nature of the data prevents this for ethical reasons).

The in-person presentations will be 20-minutes followed by a 10-minute discussion period. The posters will be presented at an in-person poster session during the conference.

Abstract guidance

If you would like to present at the conference, please submit an abstract and indicate your preferred format (presentation or poster). With respect to content, the abstract should:

clearly describe the interactional phenomenon the research examines;

include a statement about the nature of the data, the size of the collection, and the specific analytic techniques used;

provide a sample analysis of the interactional phenomenon based on a short transcript;

summarise the study’s main findings or conclusions, however tentative; and

consider the wider contribution and implication of the research.

For an example of a well-structured abstract from a different field, please see the guidelines from Nature: How to construct a Nature summary paragraph. You’re not expected to follow these guidelines but may find them useful as inspiration.

Although we expect most studies presented at the conference will be based on collections of cases, we will also consider detailed single case analyses, especially where these examine rare or elusive interactional phenomena.

With respect to the format of the submission, the abstract:

should be no longer than 300 words (excluding the transcript);

should include a short transcript that uses standard CA conventions (which does not contribute to the word count); and

should not include your name, email address, or affiliation to facilitate the double-blind review process.

Abstract submission

To submit an abstract, please complete the following form by Friday 10 April 2026: YorCCA 2026 abstract submission form.

Notification of outcomes will be sent by email in early May 2026. Early notification is provided to enable visa holders to attend.

Please contact yorcca@york.ac.uk with any queries.
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Oulu PhD 2026

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|Announcement text=One Doctoral Researcher position for three years from 1.1.2026 or as agreed in the project “Multiliteracy Expertise in Future Working Life: Interaction and Coexistence of Humans and Language-based AI Systems (MultiHAI)”.

Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Literature

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
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University of Oulu Postdoc 2026

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|Short summary=Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Finland - deadline: 17th November 2025
|Announcement text=One Postdoctoral Researcher position in the AIDA project for 20 months, starting on the 1st of January 2026.
"AIDA studies talk and social interaction, inside, with or around new digital technologies. We are searching for a researcher with a PhD and training in conversation analysis. The project focuses on social interaction in videoconferencing systems (e.g., Zoom, Teams), immersive virtual reality environments (VR) and with / around artificial intelligence systems (e.g., voice user interfaces, robots, chatbots). If you are interested in these contexts – or better, have studied them and have database that you can work with – you might be the person we're looking for."

More information here:
https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:868109/
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2025-6 Special Issue on the Work to Make the Robots Work

2025-10-13T10:05:25Z

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|Short summary=Call for papers: Special Issue of Social Interaction on 'the Work to Make the Robots Work', deadline: 1st Dec 2025
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TITLE: Special Issue on the Work to Make the Robots Work

GUEST EDITORS: Stuart Reeves, Hannah Pelikan

TIMELINE:

Deadline for abstracts on 1st Dec 2025

Response to authors by 12th Dec 2025

Deadline for full papers in mid April 2026

Reviews returned to authors by mid June 2026

Revisions submitted by Sept 2026

CALL TEXT:

There is significant interest in the promise of robots operating in varied circumstances that go far beyond traditional factory settings and 'Industry 4.0' scenarios. For example, we see deployments of robots (and attendant infrastructures that support them) in urban spaces (e.g., delivery robots, trash robots), museums (e.g., robot guides), shops and restaurants (e.g., robot servers), airports (e.g., autonomous cleaning systems), or as part of transport systems (e.g., autonomous shuttle services, robotaxis). A key signature of these physical robot deployments is that they are no longer just operating only around people who are professionally entailed with them, e.g., ‘primary users’ as envisioned by their designers. Instead, such robots are present alongside potentially large numbers of locally situated others – i.e., people going about their everyday activities there. Yet, from the perspective of the robot designer, such people tend to be treated as less relevant or consequential to robot operations. However, studies of social interaction demonstrate that such a separation between relevant and non-relevant is less clear cut in reality, and local cohorts may actually engage in considerable ‘invisible’ work to subtly enable robot operations (Pelikan et al. 2024). Further to this, while there have been significant advances in robots’ technical underpinnings—including the successful application of techniques of ever improving mechatronic aspects, and associated computational reasoning via advances in AI—such technical developments and their contribution to the success of robot initiatives nevertheless still rests upon considerable and variegated socially organised practices that are deployed widely to oversee, maintain, manage, or accommodate the presence of robots and their infrastructures in place. It is this practical work—whether done by their imagined ‘primary users’ or merely people who happen to be co-present—that remains of fundamental interest to studies of social interaction as such routine practices, like walking down a street or ordering food in a restaurant, become modified to fit with the new forms of social interactional practice that robots often lead to in their adoption. In other words, we cannot fully understand the impact of novel robotic technologies in situ without necessarily also seeking members’ understandings there too.

These new practices that absorb robots into local social and moral orders are of major concern to this Special Issue. We are calling for submissions that present investigations into the social organisation of these vital social ‘infrastructures’—or as we might call them, the ‘work to make the robots work’—across domains and contexts as practically organised social phenomena. This may be located in / as the practical work of people on-scene, whether they are persons with some existing relation to such robots, or perhaps not (for example, ‘any’ pedestrian on a street or ‘any’ traveller passing through an airport). We are also interested submissions which address methodological and conceptual issues related to social interaction ‘with’ and around robots as it pertains to the organised work involved in making robots work. This includes, for example, respecifications of concepts of ‘human-robot interaction’, ‘human-robot collaboration’ etc., and the dimensions of their reliance upon ‘invisible’ human work to sustain assumptions about robots and their design.
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Loughborough-PhD-Bereavement-Support-2025

2025-10-08T13:52:52Z

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|Short summary=Fully funded #EMCA and mixed-methods PhD based in the UK Midlands investigating the communication challenges of delivering culturally sensitive bereavement support. Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
|Announcement text=Project Title: Building an inclusive bereavement support ecosystem through improved communication in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland

Deadline:11:59pm, 30th November 2025

Host University: Loughborough University

School/department:  Social Sciences and Humanities

Start date: Wednesday 1st April 2026

Funding offer: Tuition fees covered in full (worth approx. £15-17k across full PhD programme). Monthly stipend based on £20,780 per annum, pro rata, tax free.

Working hours: Full-time (minimum 37.5 hrs per week).

Working style: Primarily in-person at host university. Flexible working supported. Working pattern to be agreed between successful candidate and lead supervisor.

Project Supervisors

Lead Academic Supervisor: Dr Marco Pino (Loughborough University)
Academic Co-Supervisor: Dr Zoebia Islam (University of Leicester)
Community Supervisor: Rebecca Sweetman (Rainbows Hospice)

About The Project

More than 10,000 people died in LLR in 2024 alone, leaving many bereaved. Erosion of bonds in contemporary society leaves many isolated and struggling to recover, especially after a catastrophic loss such as the death of a child. Effective and compassionate support is key to adaptation, helping families regain a sense of fulfilment and purpose in life. Attitudes towards death and bereavement vary across ethnic communities. Supportive conversations thus require cultural sensitivity to tailor communication to cultural and spiritual needs. This is especially the case in LLR, a highly diverse territory, with Leicester being home to the largest Indian population in England and Wales.  

The project will investigate communication challenges faced in delivering culturally sensitive bereavement support in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR). It will also create a forum of local organisations to co-design and disseminate a reusable evidence-based resource for use in communication skills training of professionals and volunteers who support bereaved families across diverse ethnic backgrounds. 

Research in these areas is lacking, limiting professional development. By addressing this gap, our project centres the local priorities to sustain accessible and inclusive health, social, and support services for isolated individuals and communities; and the need for culturally specific support and resources. 

The project involves Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People, which provides free-of-charge, specialised one-to-one and group support to bereaved families of children who have died or are dying. We will work with their Counselling, Bereavement Support, and Cultural Link services to investigate challenges faced and identify effective communication practices used to support bereaved families.  

Using mixed methods, we will:  

*interview families and staff about their experiences with receiving and giving support 
* video-record one-to-one and group support meetings to identify effective communication practices.  

Building on our rich network of links with local organisations providing bereavement support to different sectors of the community, we will create a forum to co-design our evidence-based training resource. We will maximise participation of representatives of diverse ethnic background and cultural and spiritual approaches to death and bereavement. 
 
This project has been co-created with and is supported by researchers from Loughborough University, University of Leicester and partners at Rainbows Hospice. The successful candidate for this project will be enrolled at Loughborough University. 

Project Aims

The project is a case study of bereavement support in LLR, taking into consideration ethnic, cultural, and spiritual diversity in the region, and leveraging a network of local support organisations to co-generate and disseminate culturally sensitive training resources for use in communication skills training of professionals and volunteers who support bereaved individuals and families. 

Identify communication challenges that bereavement support staff face in one-to-one and group sessions for bereaved families    
Identify effective practices to manage these challenges and promote culturally sensitive therapeutic communication 
 
Establish a forum of local organisations, centring ethnic, cultural, and spiritual diversity in LLR, to co-create, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a reusable online training resource for use in communication skills training of professionals and volunteers who support bereaved families.   

NOTE: The successful candidate for this project will be required to undergo a formal Disclosure and Barring Services check.
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|To date=2025/11/30
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Tilburg-Professorship-2025

2025-10-08T09:46:48Z

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|Announcement text=Tilburg University's School of Humanities and Digital Sciences is seeking a full professor of Communication, Cognition, and Information

Department: Communication and Cognition Location: Tilburg Contract size: 0.8 – 1.0 FTE (32 – 40 hours per week) Full-time gross monthly salary: minimum €7,202 and maximum €10,441 Contract duration: 18 months, with the prospect of permanent employment

Context

The Department of Communication and Cognition is highly multidisciplinary and combines communication and cognitive sciences with artificial intelligence (AI) and (computational) linguistics, human-computer interaction, psychology, and sociology. We conduct both fundamental and applied research, striving to contribute to today's major issues. For example, we study how we can improve communication about climate change, how we can use data to properly inform patients about treatment options, and how we can turn polarized online discussions into more constructive interactions. We also work on improving the understanding and the responsible use of AI and digital technologies. We use a wide range of methodologies, including experiments, surveys, corpus analysis, computational modeling, interviews, digital ethnography, and design research. In addition, we are responsible for a successful Bachelor's and Master's program in Communication and Information Sciences. Within these programs, students can follow three tracks: Business Communication and Digital Media , Communication and Cognition, and New Media Design.

In the Department, we place great emphasis on sustainable research and education and attach great importance to academic freedom and scientific independence. We do also encourage team science and (interdisciplinary) collaboration (with colleagues within and outside the Department) because we believe this is essential to tackle the complex challenges we face. We see research as a steady and curiosity-driven process that requires careful reflection and attention. That is why we value slow science and prefer quality over quantity.

Description of the chair

Due to the departure of a colleague and the growth of our Department, we are looking to strengthen our team with a full professor who will conduct research and teach on the cognitive or social aspects of human communication (face-to-face or digital). In terms of content, you will align with and help shape one of the Department's priorities (eg, climate communication, responsible and human-centered AI research, health communication, misinformation and polarization, and interpersonal and multimodal communication). You are also expected to be willing and able to take on administrative positions within the Department and to help shape education and research for the coming years, based on the values that are central to the Department.

Research

The research that you conduct is interdisciplinary and can be qualitative and descriptive as well as quantitative. You will help shape the Department's research program through the research and the broader initiatives you develop. To this end, you help set the research agenda, develop new research lines, and are committed to (methodological) innovation. You also take the lead in raising external funds for research, mentor and inspire colleagues, and actively seek collaboration with others, both within and outside the University. You critically reflect on your field and on the (social) consequences of your research and identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement where possible. You further develop and contribute to a sustainable and positive research climate in the Department, in which slow science and ethically responsible and open research are central.

Education

You will teach students in the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Communication and Information Sciences (CIW) and can also contribute to other programs if desired. You help create an environment in which high-quality, inspiring, and critical education is possible for both students and lecturers. You provide ideas and initiate new educational initiatives that contribute to a future-proof study program that is scientifically in-depth and socially relevant. In doing so, you also build bridges between the CIW study program and other degree programs within and outside the School. You have a clear vision on education and also critically reflect on the role of academic education in society and on our position and responsibility as a University and as lecturers to contribute to complex (social) issues.

Management

You take responsibility for the management of the Department. In this role, you help to formulate a sustainable and future-proof vision and research and education strategy. You also actively contribute to a value-driven, inclusive, and sustainable academic environment based on openness, integrity, trust, and solidarity. You take responsibility within the Department and beyond, setting an example for others. You are able to fulfill administrative roles elsewhere in the University as well and you reflect critically on academia in a broader sense. You also contribute to the positioning and profiling of the Department and the School within and outside the University.

Team spirit

You feel responsible and are committed to your colleagues, the Department , and the School . You are mindful of the common interest, actively seek cooperation with others, and share your knowledge and experiences. You are open to reflection and feedback and contribute to a positive culture and working environment.

Impact

You initiate activities that influence or benefit society and the wider environment in the short and long term. Where possible and desirable, you seek collaboration with social partners and make efforts, for example, to involve society and underrepresented groups in your research. You share the results of your work with a wider audience, for example through public lectures, participation in panels, debates or advisory committees, professional publications, or media appearances.

Profile and requirements for the chair holder

The prospective chair holder has the following profile characteristics:

* Holds a PhD and conducts excellent, (methodologically) innovative, and in-depth research on one or more of the Department's core themes.
* Is an excellent lecturer who provides inspiring, high-quality, and critical education.
* Has an affinity for and a demonstrable ability to work in an interdisciplinary manner in both research and education.
* Has a clear vision of sustainable education and research and clearly promotes and demonstrates the importance of slow science and ethically responsible and open research.
* Has demonstrable leadership and administrative skills and is willing and able to take on administrative roles, both within the Department and beyond.
* Encourages research by others by taking on the role of leader and inspirer and has a team-oriented and connecting attitude towards colleagues and others (academic citizenship).
* Is able to build bridges (within the Department and beyond) between the themes and initiatives that are relevant to the Department and the University.
* Embodies the core values of the Department and embraces Tilburg's vision of Connected Leading , Recognition and Rewards , inclusivity, and diversity.
* Has experience in supervising young researchers (PhD researchers) and in applying for and leading research projects.
* Has excellent command, both in writing and oral, of the Dutch and the English language at CEFR C-2 level.
* Possess a UTQ and excellent presentation and communication skills.

What we offer

Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment in a pleasant working environment:

* A position based on 0.8–1.0 FTE (32–40 hours per week).
* A salary of at least €7,202 and at most €10,441 gross per month for full-time employment, based on the UFO profile for Full Professor 2. * Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system for grading based on relevant education and work experience.
* This is a vacancy for a position in accordance with Article 2.3(1) of the CLA NU (Collective Labor Agreement for University Professors). You will receive a temporary contract for a period of 18 months. If, in the opinion of the employer, you perform well, on the condition that there is continuity in the same position and that there are equal financial and organizational circumstances, you will receive a permanent contract thereafter.
* A vacation allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
The option to work partly on campus and partly from home, with a working-from-home allowance of €2 per day and a monthly internet allowance of €25.
* Reimbursement for sustainable commuting: walking, cycling, and public transport.
* An Options Model in which you can exchange employment conditions for, for example, additional leave, more pension, a bicycle, or personal training at our Sports Center.
* Relocation allowance (subject to conditions).
* Employees from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for the 30/20/10% tax facility.
* Pension through the ABP.
* Wide range of training options: personal development, leadership, education, research, or language courses.
* A work culture in which we embrace differences, everyone is welcome, and everyone has equal opportunities.
* A vibrant campus in a green environment that is easily accessible by public transport.

For more information, visit our website and consult the Collective Labor Agreement for Dutch Universities . Information and application

For more information about this position, please contact the Head of Department, Prof. Dr. Juliette Schaafsma, j.schaafsma@tilburgUniversity.edu or +31 (0)13-4663579.

We cordially invite you to apply no later than November 10, 2025; applications can only be submitted online .

As part of the application, we ask you to include the following documents:

* cover letter
* CV (maximum 10 pages)
* your vision on research and education (maximum 1 page each)
* at least two references (including their names, telephone numbers, and email addresses)

An assessment may be part of the selection process.

Ideally, you will start in this position at Tilburg University on April 1, 2026.

This vacancy has been published internally and externally simultaneously.

Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

Research and education at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) have a unique focus on humans in the context of the globalizing digital society, on the development of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies, on their impact on communication, culture, and society, and on the moral and existential challenges that arise. The School of Humanities and Digital Sciences comprises four departments: Communication and Cognition, Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy; several research institutes, and a faculty office. University College Tilburg is also part of the School. Approximately 275 students enroll in Bachelor's or (Pre)Master's programs annually. The School has approximately 2,000 students and 250 staff members.

Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
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25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis 2026

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Two PhD positions in Linköping 2025

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|Short summary=Two EMCA-friendly PhD positions are available in Linköping's Language and Culture area. Starting date 1st Feb 2026, deadline, 13th Oct 2025.
|Announcement text=PhD student in language and culture

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We have the power of over 40,000 students and co-workers. Students who provide hope for the future. Co-workers who contribute to Linköping University meeting challenges of today. Our fundamental values rest on credibility, trust and security. By having the courage to think freely and innovate, our actions together, large and small, contribute to a better world. We look forward to receiving your application!
We are now looking for two PhD students in language and culture.

Your work assignments

Your main task will be to write a doctoral dissertation. You will write the thesis in English or Swedish and you yourself will have the opportunity to formulate a research project which will be suited to our research environment in Language and Culture, preferably specialising in language/interaction or comparative literature/literary studies. We also welcome interdisciplinary projects which include one or more of these specialisations. Irrespective of specialisation you will be encouraged to make use of the interdisciplinary expertise of our research environment.

As a PhD student, you devote most of your time to doctoral studies and the research projects of which you are part. Your work may also include teaching or other departmental duties, up to a maximum of 20 per cent of full-time. A high level of presence at your workplace is expected so that you will be able to benefit and contribute to the lively intellectual climate that characterises Language and Culture.

Your qualifications

You have graduated at Master’s level or completed courses with a minimum of 240 credits, at least 60 of which must be in advanced-level courses. Alternatively, you have gained essentially corresponding knowledge in another way.

120 credits (ECTS), or the equivalent, of your total credits must be in a subject of central importance to the PhD Programme in Language and Culture, such as comparative literature, general linguistics, Swedish, English and Nordic languages. Furthermore, you must also have a good command of English, and preferably also of other languages. Anyone admitted who doesn’t have a command of Swedish will be expected to learn Swedish during the first two years of the Programme.

Applicants will be assessed on the basis of their ability to successfully carry out doctoral studies. This assessment will be primarily made on the basis of your submitted documentation. Particular importance will be given to your previous theses or other academic production (e.g. published articles) as well as your planned research project. The following assessment criteria will be taken into consideration in the selection process: creativity, maturity, the ability to make independent judgements and carry out critical analyses, as well as any specialised knowledge and experience that the applicant possesses, such as professional experience that may be of relevance to successfully carrying out doctoral studies. The top candidates will be called for an interview, which will also provide a basis for the final selection. In the assessment of the applicant’s ability to successfully carry out doctoral studies considerable attention will be paid to the competence and expertise possessed by the teachers associated with the PhD programme.

Your workplace

The doctoral position is located in the research environment Language and Culture, an interdiciplinary meeting place for research on language and literature, which is unified by an interest in the interplay between language and culture in everyday, literary, media, artistic and professional contexts. Please read more about us here: https://liu.se/en/research/language-and-culture.

We look forward to hearing how you and your project can contribute to our research environment.

The employment

When taking up the post, you will be admitted to the program for doctoral studies. More information about the doctoral studies at each faculty is available at Doctoral studies at Linköping University

The employment has a duration of normally four years’ full-time equivalent. Extension of employment up to five years is based on the degree of teaching and institutional assignment. Further extensions may be granted in exceptional circumstances. You will initially be employed for one year, after which your employment will be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time, depending on your progress through the study plan.

Starting date 1 February 2026.

Salary and employment benefits

The salary of PhD students is determined according to a locally negotiated salary progression.

More information about employment benefits at Linköping University is available here.

Union representatives

Information about union representatives, see Help for applicants.

Application procedure

Apply for the position by clicking the “Apply” button below. Your application must reach Linköping University no later than 13 October 2025.

Applications and documents received after the date above will not be considered.

When you prepare your application, please consult our website (https://liu.se/en/research/language-and-culture) to learn more about our areas of research.

Your application must also include a personal covering letter (an account of why you wish to do a doctoral degree) of no longer than one page, a statement of intentions (a description of your proposed research project) of no longer than three pages, as well as your publications, e.g. essays/theses/articles of merit for the appointment, including master dissertation(s), or the equivalent.

We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives - diversity enriches our work and helps us grow. Preserving everybody's equal value, rights and opportunities is a natural part of who we are. Read more about our work with: Equal opportunities.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Linköping university has framework agreements and wishes to decline direct contacts from staffing- and recruitment companies as well as vendors of job advertisements.
Contact persons
Katja Asplund

HR-manager

+46 13 28 19 59

katja.asplund@liu.se

Nigel Musk

Senior Associate Professor, Head of the Research Environment

+4613281869

nigel.musk@liu.se

Therese Örnberg Berglund

Head of division

+4613281870

therese.ornberg.berglund@liu.se

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EMCA bibliography database

2025-09-15T09:57:17Z

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The EMCA Bibliography database tracks publications relevant to Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.

== Browse the entire database ==
You can browse, search and filter the database by year, author, tag/keyword and publication type. If the window below is too small for your browser, try [http://emcawiki.net/bibtex/browser.php?frameset&bib=emca.bib browsing the database in a new window].
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* Or [http://emcawiki.net/bibtex/emca.bib download the entire database as a bibtex file]

== Books ==

* [[EMCA books database]]: a list of books in the database ordered by publication date

== Specialised EMCA bibliographies ==

There are a number of specialised tag/keyword lists maintained as part of the bibliography:

* [[Basic resources and debates tag]]
* [[General EMCA tag]]
* [[Membership categorization analysis tag]]
* [[Interactional linguistics tag]]
* [[Discursive psychology tag]]
* [[Related interaction studies tag]]
** (incl.: Goffman, anthropology, micro-ethnography, etc.)
* [[Medical EMCA tag]]
** (EMCA in the field of medicine, psychotherapy, and related topics like impaired communication)
* [[Racism EMCA tag]]
*[[Phonetics of talk-in-interaction]]

== Background and status ==

The EMCA bibliography was initiated and has been maintained by Paul ten Have on the [http://www.paultenhave.nl/EMCA.htm EMCA news] website since the early 1990s. His bibliographies - as of July 2014 are [[Static EMCA bibliographies| available on this site]].

This wiki was established to digitize that bibliography and make it available alongside an updatable wiki building on the wealth of EMCA resources Paul assembled on his site.

== Scope ==

The bibliography lists academic work that is based mainly on EM/CA methods and approaches and/or positions its findings directly in relation to past or current work in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. If you are unsure whether an item fits this description and would like to discuss it, please contact [[The EMCA wiki Admins]].

== Adding to the bibliography ==

[[Adding bibliography entries]] is the best way to help build and maintain this resource. as well as keep the new ones up to date. You need a user account to do this, so please [[How to help|get in touch]] if you can help in this way and we will make you one.

=== Import ===
* You can import small BibTeX files into EMCA wiki by clicking the '[[Form:BibEntry|Add to the bibliography]]' link in the sidebar.
* If you have a large amount of EMCA-related bibliographic data (preferably in BibTeX format) that you would like to contribute, please [mailto:admins@emcawiki.net get in touch]].

=== Where this wiki started ===

We started this wiki by digitizing the [[static EMCA bibliographies|old bibliographies]] from Paul ten Have's site. If you click on the 'discussion' link on the top of each of the bibliography pages, it will provide you with a link to the old bibliography if you're interested in data archeology.

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Carlin2025f

2025-09-15T08:41:07Z

SaulAlbert: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Andrew P. Carlin; |Title=Sacks studies”: legacies and innovations |Tag(s)=EMCA; Harvey Sacks; Social structure |Key=Carlin2025f |Year=..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrew P. Carlin;
|Title=Sacks studies”: legacies and innovations
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Harvey Sacks; Social structure
|Key=Carlin2025f
|Year=2025
|Language=English
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=9--26
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2906
|Abstract=The basic aim of this essay is to orient readers to legacies of Harvey Sacks, and subsequent innovations that take these legacies forward. It also points towards the relevance of Sacks’s own innovations to social structure and to theory. Another aim of this essay is to introduce contributions to the present part of the Harvey Sacks thematic issue of Przegląd Socjologiczny. The second part of the thematic issue is scheduled for publication in March 2026.
}}

Carlin2025e

2025-09-13T15:18:32Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:18:32

{{BibEntry
|Key=Carlin2025e
|Key=Carlin2025e
|Title=Particularization, place-relevant categories and moral order: Kindergarten as a “local organizational ensemble”
|Author(s)=Andrew P. Carlin; Younhee Kim;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; grammatical analysis; membership categorization; moral order; parent-child interaction; particularization
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=107–134
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2903
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/7
|Abstract=Our hearings of a corpus of audio-recordings provided us, as members, with cultural resources with which to approach these for doing ethnomethodological membership categorization analysis. We began to recognize ordinary, social order properties that we suggest are features of “«parent»-«child» interaction”. Furthermore, these properties provide us with access to a “moral” order – commentaries upon accountable, expectable workings of Kindergarten (childcare centre or nursery). In the recordings a father asks his son about his activities at Kindergarten. The child’s accounts demonstrate Kindergarten is populated with members of a cohort who the father, through talk, seeks to regularize as ratified individuals. The moral order exhibited within these data is not exclusively formulated by the father: a very young child demonstrates competence in expressing his orientation to the “noticeable absence” of accountable actions. We comment on the “grammar” of categorization practices within the field of “«parent»-«child» interaction”.
}}

Keel2025a

2025-09-13T15:16:43Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:16:42

{{BibEntry
|Key=Keel2025a
|Key=Keel2025a
|Title=Unpacking physiotherapy exercise instructions with Sacks’s sociological approach to indexical expressions
|Author(s)=Sara Keel;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; conversation analysis; ethnomethodology; exercise instructions; indexical expressions; physiotherapist-patient interactions
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=55–82
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2901
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/5
|Abstract=This contribution addresses a topic of investigation that receives considerable attention in Sacks’s lectures but is otherwise underexamined in sociology: members’ methodical use of indexical expressions, for example “now” and “here”, to achieve the intelligibility of activities for what they are from within a given setting. Drawing on Sacks’s approach to indexicality, our contribution is based on synchronized video-recordings that feature therapeutic exercise instructions given during two physiotherapy consultations, one face-to-face and one remote. More specifically, it investigates uses of the Swiss German indexical expression “do; here” occurring within embodied instruction sequences in the two distinct settings. Our descriptions of the exercise instruction sequences reveal how members’ methodical use of “do; here” relies on and at the same time constitutes its embeddedness in physiotherapists’ and patients’ distinct instructional practices. In the face-to-face setting, the practices involve the precise articulation of “do; here” with touching-being touched to monitor, assess, correct, etc. the patient’s instructed actions. In the remote setting, the practices are accomplished through the skillful embedding of “do; here” in contrastive chains of embodied instructional demonstrations that the physiotherapist provides for the patient, who is sitting in front of the laptop watching her.
}}

Matsunaga2025

2025-09-13T15:15:38Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:15:37

{{BibEntry
|Key=Matsunaga2025
|Key=Matsunaga2025
|Title=Temporality as a member’s problem in real time: An analysis of a prehospital emergency care setting
|Author(s)=Shintaro Matsunaga; Nozomi Ikeya;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; emergency medicine; ethnomethodology; Harvey Sacks; perspicuous setting; sociology of time
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=83–105
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2902
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/6
|Abstract=The aim of this paper is to explore how theoretical concepts can be studied as members’ problems, building on an argument developed by Sacks and Garfinkel through the notion of perspicuous settings. This notion is crucial for addressing social order as a member’s problem. We aim to articulate ways of describing a member’s problem in real time by focusing on the concept of time, since members’ orientations to time are relevant to virtually all forms of action, whether or not they are carried out through interaction.It might seem, then, that describing actions in interaction with close attention to the details of sequential organization is the appropriate way to approach members’ problems in real time. However, this approach leaves unaddressed another dimension of members’ orientation to time – namely, the assumptions members make when engaging in setting-specific actions, which may not be audio-visually transcribable. Therefore, this paper articulates different ways of describing time as a member’s problem in real time, encompassing members’ orientations both to the ordering principles of interaction and to time as an ordering principle of the work setting – or to either of these dimensions individually.The setting of prehospital emergency care is chosen as a perspicuous setting, in which various temporal and spatial dimensions are made relevant in the coordination of actions involved in transferring a patient under treatment.
}}

Czyzewski2025

2025-09-13T15:15:38Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:15:38

{{BibEntry
|Key=Czyzewski2025
|Key=Czyzewski2025
|Title=Robin James Smith, Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley (eds.), On Sacks: Materials, methodology, and inspirations, Routledge, Abingdon 2021, ss. 225 – rec. Marek Czyżewski
|Author(s)=Marek Czyżewski;
|Tag(s)=Book review; EMCA; Methodology
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=135–142
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2904
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2024/74.3/8
}}

Burns2025

2025-09-13T15:15:37Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:15:37

{{BibEntry
|Key=Burns2025
|Key=Burns2025
|Title=Sacks and Garfinkel, early on
|Author(s)=Stacy Lee Burns;
|Tag(s)=Sacks; Garfinkel; EMCA; ethnomethodology; practical action; radical break
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=37–54
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2900
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/4
|Abstract=Early on, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks were independently and sometimes collaboratively pioneering an alternative to the prevailing theories of social action and models of formal analysis by radically re-specifying the study of social life and social order. Garfinkel and Sacks rejected the notion that rules were adequate to explain or determine social action. They focused instead on the methodic practices and competencies through which social order is enacted and recognized, treating the features of a setting and the actions in that setting as situated accomplishments of the participants to that setting and activity. Sacks “envisioned the possibility of a science of practical actions that would elucidate formal structures exhibited in actions” [Lynch 2017: 11, later published as Lynch 2019], while Garfinkel resisted any program of formal analysis. Yet when viewed together, this paper argues that their groundbreaking corpus of studies demonstrates an already existing world of specific occasions, practical tasks, embodied skills, and contextures of activity as these are regularly organized by people in situ, in real-time, and in material detail.
}}

Sacks2025

2025-09-13T15:15:36Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:15:35

{{BibEntry
|Key=Sacks2025
|Key=Sacks2025
|Title=The local repair system in conversation. Précis
|Author(s)=Harvey Sacks; Emanuel A. Schegloff;
|Tag(s)=Repair; EMCA
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=27–28
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2898
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/2
}}

McHoul2025

2025-09-13T15:15:36Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-13 09:15:36

{{BibEntry
|Key=McHoul2025
|Key=McHoul2025
|Title=Understanding (and) culture: Working out Sacks’s aphorism
|Author(s)=Alec McHoul;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; culture; Gilbert Ryle; Harvey Sacks; phenomenology; recognizability; reflexivity; understanding
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Przegląd Socjologiczny
|Volume=74
|Number=3
|Pages=29–36
|URL=https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/2899
|DOI=10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/3
|Abstract=This essay is a batch of reflections on and extensions of a short passage from notes made by Harvey Sacks in preparation for a lecture presented in the Fall term 1965 at UCLA. It concerns questions of understanding and culture as fundamental topics for doing sociology.
}}

The EMCA wiki Admins

2025-09-09T10:59:50Z

SaulAlbert: /* Current admins */

The EMCA wiki Admins are a group of people who volunteered to help our beloved late colleague [[Paul ten Have 1937-2022|Paul ten Have ]] maintain his [http://www.paultenhave.nl/about.htm EMCA news website] and have become an ad-hoc editorial group for this new site.

== Current admins ==

* [[User:DarceySearles|Darcey Searles]]
* [[User:BryHebenstreit|Bry Hebenstreit]]
* [[User:ClaraIversen|Clara Iversen]]
* [[User:BurakTekin|Burak Tekin]]
* [[User:JackJoyce|Jack Joyce]]
* [[User:BogdanaHuma|Bogdana Huma]]
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* [[User:VirginiaCalabria | Virginia Calabria]]
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* [[User:Clair-AntoineVeyrier|Clair-Antoine Veyrier]]
* [[User:ElliottHoey|Elliott Hoey]]
* [[User:JoshuaRaclaw|Joshua Raclaw]]
* [[User:JakubMlynar|Jakub Mlynář]]
* [[User:PınarTopal |Pınar Topal]]
* [[User:SaulAlbert|Saul Albert]]
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* [[User:YusukeArano|Yusuke Arano]]
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* [[User:PatriciaJimenez|Patricia Jimenez]]
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* [[User:TeijaAhopelto|Teija Ahopelto]]

== Join the EMCA wiki admin group ==

If you would like to help with technical, editorial, community-building or other skills, you are very welcome to join the admin group.

[mailto:admins@emcawiki.net Email us] and we'll get in touch, or you can contact the individual admins above by writing on their 'discussion' pages (click the link to their name, then the 'Discussion' tab).

Ahopelto2026

2025-09-06T09:35:45Z

SaulAlbert: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-06 03:35:44

{{BibEntry
|Key=Ahopelto2025
|Key=Ahopelto2025
|Title=What does a test say about the mind? Personality tests as discursive objects in recruitment interviews
|Author(s)=Teija Ahopelto; Melisa Stevanovic; Johanna Ruusuvuori;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Personality; Personality tests; Finnish; Institutional talk; Applied CA
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=sep
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Pages=14614456251362993
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456251362993
|DOI=10.1177/14614456251362993
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=In this article, we examine how recruiters and applicants talk about personality tests, reflecting presuppositions about personality and its accessibility. Using video-recorded data from 21 Finnish job interviews, we show how the personality test functions as a discursive object for managing stakes in the recruitment process. When applicants referred to the test after receiving positive evaluations, they emphasized its ability to reveal their personality, thus reinforcing the evaluation. In these moments, both recruiters and applicants treated the test as structured and purposeful. When test talk occurred before receiving results, applicants highlighted the test’s limitations in accessing their personality, creating space to reinterpret outcomes. Recruiters, in contrast, treated the test as a reliable tool, emphasizing its role in identifying inconsistencies in applicants’ conduct. Our findings show that personality tests can both enable and constrain participants’ ability to manage stakes, contributing to the impression of objectivity and truth-finding during job interviews.
}}

CA Day 2025 - 15th December 2025 at Loughborough and Online

2025-08-29T10:29:45Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=CA Day 2025 - 15th December 2025 at Loughborough and Online
|Short title=CA Day 2025
|Short summary=It's the #CADay2025 Call for Papers! Deadline: 3rd October, Event: Loughborough ,UK & hybrid, 15th December with keynotes by Chase Wesley Raymond and Deborah Chinn. Papers on any aspect of interaction illuminated by CA are welcome! #EMCA
|Announcement text=- CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) 9:30 am - 5:30 pm GMT - £25

Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 18th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 15th December 2025, 9:30am-5:30 (followed by an evening reception with food and wine), supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.

Join us for a (hybrid) meeting comprising a series of paper presentations in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Invited Speakers

- Chase Wesley Raymond https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/chase-wesley-raymond
- Deborah Chinn https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/deborah-chinn

We welcome presentations on all aspects of interaction illuminated by Conversation Analysis.

Please use this submission form: https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/submit-an-abstract-for-ca-day-2024/

Contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

If you submit a paper after we have opened the waiting list for registrants, then you are guaranteed a place only if your paper is accepted. We will let you know by one week after the deadline.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 3rd October 2025.

In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!

Registration

Registration is now open on the Loughborough event booking system: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/communication-and-media/upcoming-events/ca-day-2025

In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis but (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!

Once we have reached capacity, you can join the waiting list. Normally a number of registrants withdraw before the conference, and we allocate their places to those waiting. Most withdrawals happen close to the conference date, though, so you may not be sure about a place for some time.

Attendance costs:

In-person: £25, or £20 for students/unwaged, which pays for refreshments and the evening reception (you will be able to buy lunch on campus this year) Online-only: £5, which helps to pay for other event costs and for someone to look after the stream/questions etc.

#CAkeOff2025

We would also like to invite you to participate in the delicious CA Day #CAkeOff2025 competition.

For those planning on participating in the CAkeOff competition in-person, please bring your cakes to CA day where our invited speakers will judge, along with enthusiastic participation from all other CA Day in-person delegates.

Venue information

Please contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) with any queries. We’ll be in the Brockington Extension, Room U.0.05. Use these links for travel and campus map. Added: Here’s a list of University accommodation. Other hotels are also available. Overseas visitors: the closest airport is East Midlands Airport (EMA), Birmingham Airport is not too far.

Follow the #CAday2025 hashtag on whatever social media platforms still exist.
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day-2025-monday-15th-december-hybrid/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/12/15
|To date=2025/12/15
|Address=Loughborough University and online (hybrid)
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2025/10/03
|Submission deadline=2025/10/03
}}

CA Day 2025 - 15th December 2025 at Loughborough and Online

2025-07-09T09:15:27Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=CA Day 2025 - 15th December 2024 at Loughborough and Online
|Short title=CA Day 2025
|Short summary=It's the #CADay2025 Call for Papers! Deadline: 3rd October, Event: Loughborough ,UK & hybrid, 15th December with keynotes by Chase Wesley Raymond and Deborah Chinn. Papers on any aspect of interaction illuminated by CA are welcome! #EMCA
|Announcement text=- CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) 9:30 am - 5:30 pm GMT - £25

Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 18th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 15th December 2025, 9:30am-5:30 (followed by an evening reception with food and wine), supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.

Join us for a (hybrid) meeting comprising a series of paper presentations in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Invited Speakers

- Chase Wesley Raymond https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/chase-wesley-raymond
- Deborah Chinn https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/deborah-chinn

We welcome presentations on all aspects of interaction illuminated by Conversation Analysis.

Please use this submission form: https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/submit-an-abstract-for-ca-day-2024/

Contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

If you submit a paper after we have opened the waiting list for registrants, then you are guaranteed a place only if your paper is accepted. We will let you know by one week after the deadline.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 3rd October 2025.

In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!

Registration

Registration is now open on the Loughborough event booking system: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/communication-and-media/upcoming-events/ca-day-2025

In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis but (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!

Once we have reached capacity, you can join the waiting list. Normally a number of registrants withdraw before the conference, and we allocate their places to those waiting. Most withdrawals happen close to the conference date, though, so you may not be sure about a place for some time.

Attendance costs:

In-person: £25, or £20 for students/unwaged, which pays for refreshments and the evening reception (you will be able to buy lunch on campus this year) Online-only: £5, which helps to pay for other event costs and for someone to look after the stream/questions etc.

#CAkeOff2025

We would also like to invite you to participate in the delicious CA Day #CAkeOff2025 competition.

For those planning on participating in the CAkeOff competition in-person, please bring your cakes to CA day where our invited speakers will judge, along with enthusiastic participation from all other CA Day in-person delegates.

Venue information

Please contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) with any queries. We’ll be in the Brockington Extension, Room U.0.05. Use these links for travel and campus map. Added: Here’s a list of University accommodation. Other hotels are also available. Overseas visitors: the closest airport is East Midlands Airport (EMA), Birmingham Airport is not too far.

Follow the #CAday2025 hashtag on whatever social media platforms still exist.
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day-2025-monday-15th-december-hybrid/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/12/15
|To date=2025/12/15
|Address=Loughborough University and online (hybrid)
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2025/10/03
|Submission deadline=2025/10/03
}}

CA Day 2025 - 15th December 2025 at Loughborough and Online

2025-07-09T09:15:00Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=CA Day 2025 - 15th December 2024 at Loughborough and Online
|Short title=CA Day 2025
|Short summary=#CADay2025 Call for Papers! Deadline: 3rd October, Event: Loughborough ,UK & hybrid, 15th December with keynotes by Chase Wesley Raymond and Deborah Chinn. Papers on any aspect of interaction illuminated by CA are welcome! #EMCA
|Announcement text=- CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) 9:30 am - 5:30 pm GMT - £25

Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 18th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 15th December 2025, 9:30am-5:30 (followed by an evening reception with food and wine), supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.

Join us for a (hybrid) meeting comprising a series of paper presentations in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Invited Speakers

- Chase Wesley Raymond https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/chase-wesley-raymond
- Deborah Chinn https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/deborah-chinn

We welcome presentations on all aspects of interaction illuminated by Conversation Analysis.

Please use this submission form: https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/submit-an-abstract-for-ca-day-2024/

Contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

If you submit a paper after we have opened the waiting list for registrants, then you are guaranteed a place only if your paper is accepted. We will let you know by one week after the deadline.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 3rd October 2025.

In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!

Registration

Registration is now open on the Loughborough event booking system: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/communication-and-media/upcoming-events/ca-day-2025

In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis but (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!

Once we have reached capacity, you can join the waiting list. Normally a number of registrants withdraw before the conference, and we allocate their places to those waiting. Most withdrawals happen close to the conference date, though, so you may not be sure about a place for some time.

Attendance costs:

In-person: £25, or £20 for students/unwaged, which pays for refreshments and the evening reception (you will be able to buy lunch on campus this year) Online-only: £5, which helps to pay for other event costs and for someone to look after the stream/questions etc.

#CAkeOff2025

We would also like to invite you to participate in the delicious CA Day #CAkeOff2025 competition.

For those planning on participating in the CAkeOff competition in-person, please bring your cakes to CA day where our invited speakers will judge, along with enthusiastic participation from all other CA Day in-person delegates.

Venue information

Please contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) with any queries. We’ll be in the Brockington Extension, Room U.0.05. Use these links for travel and campus map. Added: Here’s a list of University accommodation. Other hotels are also available. Overseas visitors: the closest airport is East Midlands Airport (EMA), Birmingham Airport is not too far.

Follow the #CAday2025 hashtag on whatever social media platforms still exist.
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day-2025-monday-15th-december-hybrid/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/12/15
|To date=2025/12/15
|Address=Loughborough University and online (hybrid)
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2025/10/03
|Submission deadline=2025/10/03
}}

PhD on Informatics at Gothenburg University starts January 2026

2025-06-30T12:54:41Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Job
|Full title=PhD on Informatics at Gothenburg University starts January 2026
|Short title=PhDGothenburg2026
|Short summary=Fully funded PhD position at the University of Gothenburg focused on trust and interactivity in AI-driven media formats and their role in public discourse - EM/CA applicants welcome. Deadline 15th Sept 2025, starts Jan 2026.
|Announcement text=Dear colleagues,

I’m reaching out to share a fully funded PhD position in Informatics at the University of Gothenburg, embedded in the national WASP-HS research cluster AI, Power and Politics. The position focuses on trust and interactivity in AI-driven media formats and their role in public discourse.

While formally situated within the broader themes of AI and society, I would especially welcome candidates grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The successful applicant will join a research environment that takes seriously Garfinkel’s question of how social order is locally and interactionally produced—and what it means when machines begin to speak within that infrastructure.

Within our group, we are currently pursuing a set of inquiries into how generative AI systems reshape the fundamental conditions of social interaction. This includes questions of relationality, factuality, and the shifting intelligibility of technologically mediated action. These issues invite detailed ethnomethodological and conversation analytic engagement with topics such as:

* How are social relationships produced with artificial companions?
* How is knowledge negotiated in interaction with ‘competent’ machines?
* And how do societies respond to these shifting conditions of intelligibility?

There is ample room for the PhD project to align with, extend, or reframe these themes—empirically, conceptually, or methodologically—based on the interests and background of the candidate.

The position is fully funded for four years and begins in January 2026.

* Full position details and application: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=p37886
* Application deadline: 15 September 2025
* Contact: jonas.ivarsson@gu.se for informal questions.

Feel free to share widely, especially with advanced students and colleagues working in EM/CA and adjacent traditions.

Warm regards,
Jonas
|Year=2026
|Web link=https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=p37886
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/06/30
|To date=2025/09/15
|Address=University of Gothenburg, Sweden
|Location=57.69839, 11.97158
|Submission deadline=2025/09/15
}}

YorCCA 2025

2025-06-30T12:45:14Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=YorCCA 2025
|Short title=YorCCA2025
|Short summary=CFP: YorCCA 2025 will take place 18-Jul-2025 with invited speakers Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada. Please submit abstracts by 22 April
|Announcement text=The York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) is a PhD-led conference at the University of York, designed for PhD researchers in Conversation Analysis to present their work, receive feedback, and engage with established academics.

The 2025 conference will take place on Friday 18th July, with two invited speakers, Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada, and presentations from PhD researchers. In-person attendees can also participate in CA skills workshops led by the invited speakers on Saturday 19th July.

The Call for Papers is now open, with a submission deadline of Tuesday 22nd
April 2025
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/yorcca/home
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized; Workshop
|From date=2025/07/18
|To date=2025/07/19
|Address=University of York, UK
|Location=53.94611, -1.05177
|Abstract due=2025/04/22
}}

Funny videos that can help to explain CA concepts

2025-06-17T10:12:25Z

SaulAlbert: /* Turn-taking */

== Funny videos that help explain EM/CA concepts ==

Compiled from [http://lists.hum.aau.dk/pipermail/languse/Week-of-Mon-20150302/004635.html a great thread on video 'funnies'] by Ruth Parry on the languse mailing list and random tweets. See also the video section of the [[EMCA Teaching resources]] page.

=== Preference organization ===

* Response conformity/non-conformity: https://twitter.com/DanRiffle/status/1106292926831824907 - from [Adrian Kerrisson]
* Preference structures: A clip montage of Worf from Star Trek TNG having a slew of first actions rejected and challenged - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs

==== Dispreference ====

* Green Wing Sue White and her completely deviant interactional practice (buzzer) for indicating dispreferredness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBM1x5DPBXA

=== Sequence organization ===

* The hedge sketch – for sequencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FUZ6eUwG54
* sequence organization, conditional relevance and adjacency pairs (although some find it a little violent...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpSeMIE361g

==== Adjacency pairs ====

* The Audition (from Mr Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ZNX1jqbOk

==== Pre-sequences ====

* Here’s a favorite from “Everybody Loves Raymond.” I’ve been using this to teach about pre-sequencing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0418Ozjt4

=== Social norms ===

* Curb your Enthusiasm Chat and cut – for queueing behaviour and social norms, and of course Larry’s rudeness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bW1aMAkhs
* Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm are absolute treasure troves of this kind of thing. The most famous example probably being the ‘close talker’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVSIkEi3mM

=== Question design ===

* Medical students’ spoof on communication skills – overdone ‘open questioning’ and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m6d95yJd8

=== Next turn proof procedure ===

* From 0:36 onward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGXxAnYDMc

=== Pursuing a response ===

* And there is also this, from Family Guy, which I like, on delayed recipiency and pursuing responses…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

=== Participation frameworks ===

* participation frameworks/eye contact https://vimeo.com/85448261

=== Smiling ===

* hide your pain Harold' meme works well for expression/smiling http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hide-the-pain-harold

=== Oh ===

* The Yip Yips discover the call of the telephone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX8-XcupDaY&ab_channel=kgordonprofessor

=== Gesture ===

* emblematic v's deictic gesture (it's also good for Goffman) from the old faithful seinfeld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLEaVzBMuQ

=== Intersubjectivity ===

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcWtvEzdR8 (but ensure you stop it before the racism starts at about 3:40)

=== Repair ===

* repair/breaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR6pBGMZ90
* problems of hearing vs. problems of understanding: https://twitter.com/saul/status/1136216104408420352

=== Turn-taking ===

* turn-taking, tcus, projectability, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY
* TCUs and speech exchange systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gULNoATVT1I
* Turn-taking, but also progressivity & contiguity, repair, gaze/gesture/body orientation: https://twitter.com/saul/status/1136196231577968641
* Turn-taking, turn-allocation (Seinfeld): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tYq_PjRjI
* Collaborative completions (Bit of Fry & Laurie, Understanding Barman sketch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvAQfHPTomA

=== Apologies ===

* This scene from Friends is useful for talking about apologies and what kinds of responses they might make relevant: Minutes 1:36-2:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHTrX6milno

Song2024a

2025-05-08T13:18:51Z

SaulAlbert:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INPROCEEDINGS
|Author(s)=Le Song;
|Title=“Oh my Dave, your face says it all!”: Exploring the Multimodal Practices of Tasting in Live Streaming
|Editor(s)=Jeff Nichols
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Tasting; Multimodal conversation analysis; Live streaming; Video-mediated interaction
|Key=Song2024a
|Publisher=Association for Computing Machinery
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Booktitle=Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
|Volume=8
|Number=271
|Pages=1-27
|URL=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3676518
|DOI=10.1145/3676518
|Abstract=Research on the activity of tasting, examined through the lens of conversation analysis, reveals that in face-to-face contexts, tasting is an interactive and sequential process that combines individual sensory experience with a public, witnessable, accountable, and intersubjective dimension. This perspective can be extended to the realm of live-streamed tasting, where streamers demonstrate and communicate the taste of food products to online audiences in real time. By adopting multimodal conversation analysis to scrutinize the unfolding sequence moment by moment, my study aims to demonstrate 1) Three practices to achieve the configuration of "tasting heads," wherein the current taster's face is displayed on-screen. 2) Patterns of gaze withdrawal from the screen and subsequent gaze back to the screen during the tasting process. 3) The performative and animated facial expressions. 4) The structure of responses from both streamers and viewers after the tasting.
}}

Song2024a

2025-05-08T13:16:07Z

SaulAlbert:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INPROCEEDINGS
|Author(s)=Le Song;
|Title="Oh my Dave, your face says it all!": Exploring the Multimodal Practices of Tasting in Live Streaming
|Editor(s)=Jeff Nichols
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Tasting; Multimodal conversation analysis; Live streaming; Video-mediated interaction
|Key=Song2024a
|Publisher=Association for Computing Machinery
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Booktitle=Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
|Volume=8
|Number=MHCI
|URL=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3676518
|DOI=10.1145/3676518
|Abstract=Research on the activity of tasting, examined through the lens of conversation analysis, reveals that in face-to-face contexts, tasting is an interactive and sequential process that combines individual sensory experience with a public, witnessable, accountable, and intersubjective dimension. This perspective can be extended to the realm of live-streamed tasting, where streamers demonstrate and communicate the taste of food products to online audiences in real time. By adopting multimodal conversation analysis to scrutinize the unfolding sequence moment by moment, my study aims to demonstrate 1) Three practices to achieve the configuration of "tasting heads," wherein the current taster's face is displayed on-screen. 2) Patterns of gaze withdrawal from the screen and subsequent gaze back to the screen during the tasting process. 3) The performative and animated facial expressions. 4) The structure of responses from both streamers and viewers after the tasting.
}}

Forensic Conversations 2025

2025-04-30T14:58:34Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=Forensic Conversations 2025
|Short title=FC2025
|Short summary=Forensic Conversations Symposium is BACK, to be held at Loughborough University and online on 17th Sep 2025.
|Announcement text=We are delighted to announce that the Forensic Conversations Symposium is BACK, to be held at Loughborough University and online on 17th Sep 2025. Abstracts due: 15th June.

Join us for a friendly and informal day of networking, discussions, and presentations with researchers using EMCA methods (ethnomethodology and conversation analysis) to explore conversations in policing and criminal justice contexts. This could include (but is not limited to) emergency and non-emergency police calls, patrol footage, victim/suspect interviews, courtroom interactions, parole meetings.

This year we are offering a bonus half day of in-person only data sessions (18th September 2025).

Invited Speaker: Professor Jan Svennevig, University of Agder

Read about Jan’s current project: Police investigative interviews in Norwegian as a Second Language – Communicative Challenges and Solutions
Call for abstracts is now open

The deadline for abstracts is Friday 15th June.

Registration is now open

Hybrid symposium 17th Sep: In-person attendance £25 (salaried), £5 (concession), Online attendance £5.
In-person only data sessions 18th Sep: attendance is free but spaces are limited.

We look forward to seeing you in September!

Laura Jenkins, Emma Richardson, and Alexandra Kent
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forensic-conversations-in-criminal-justice-settings/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/09/17
|To date=2025/09/17
|Address=Loughborough University and online (hybrid)
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2025/06/15
|Submission deadline=2025/06/15
}}

Forensic Conversations 2025

2025-04-30T14:58:07Z

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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Conference
|Full title=Forensic Conversations 2025
|Short title=FC2025
|Short summary=Forensic Conversations Symposium is BACK, to be held at Loughborough University and online on 17th Sep 2025.
|Announcement text=We are delighted to announce that the Forensic Conversations Symposium is BACK, to be held at Loughborough University and online on 17th Sep 2025.

Join us for a friendly and informal day of networking, discussions, and presentations with researchers using EMCA methods (ethnomethodology and conversation analysis) to explore conversations in policing and criminal justice contexts. This could include (but is not limited to) emergency and non-emergency police calls, patrol footage, victim/suspect interviews, courtroom interactions, parole meetings.

This year we are offering a bonus half day of in-person only data sessions (18th September 2025).

Invited Speaker: Professor Jan Svennevig, University of Agder

Read about Jan’s current project: Police investigative interviews in Norwegian as a Second Language – Communicative Challenges and Solutions
Call for abstracts is now open

The deadline for abstracts is Friday 15th June.

Registration is now open

Hybrid symposium 17th Sep: In-person attendance £25 (salaried), £5 (concession), Online attendance £5.
In-person only data sessions 18th Sep: attendance is free but spaces are limited.

We look forward to seeing you in September!

Laura Jenkins, Emma Richardson, and Alexandra Kent
|Year=2025
|Web link=https://darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forensic-conversations-in-criminal-justice-settings/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/09/17
|To date=2025/09/17
|Address=Loughborough University and online (hybrid)
|Location=52.76503, -1.23209
|Abstract due=2025/06/15
|Submission deadline=2025/06/15
}}

CLDI 022

2025-04-14T08:26:11Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Datum
|Corpus=Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI)
|Corpus ID=CLDI 022
|Vernacular title=Donald Trump and the President of Mexico
|Date of incident=2024/02/24
|Location of incident=National Harbor, Maryland, USA
|Geographic location=38.7818, -77.01466
|Context=Political speech
|Linguistic medium=English
|Targeted languages=Spanish
|Recording length=0 min, 53 sec
|DataDownloadURL=https://osf.io/tdbaz/
|TranscriptPDFURL=8mwxh
|MediaURL=mcdtu
}}

CLDI 021

2025-04-14T08:26:04Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Datum
|Corpus=Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI)
|Corpus ID=CLDI 021
|Vernacular title=Bona fide American
|Date of incident=2019/02/01
|Location of incident=Cracker Barrel Restaurant, El Paso, Texas, USA
|Geographic location=31.8369, -106.56808
|Context=Restaurant
|Linguistic medium=English
|Targeted languages=Spanish
|Recording length=2 min, 31 sec
|DataDownloadURL=https://osf.io/5sdeg/
|TranscriptPDFURL=pmy5t
|MediaURL=2d9xz
}}

CLDI 013

2025-04-14T08:25:56Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Datum
|Corpus=Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI)
|Corpus ID=CLDI 013
|Vernacular title=I love Puerto Ricans
|Date of incident=2019/12/23
|Location of incident=Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
|Geographic location=42.37322, -72.51985
|Context=Public bus
|Linguistic medium=English
|Targeted languages=Chinese; Korean; Spanish
|Recording length=5 min, 11 sec
|DataDownloadURL=https://osf.io/dqba8/
|TranscriptPDFURL=mg9tz
|MediaURL=y64nr
}}

CLDI 021

2025-04-14T08:24:21Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Datum
|Corpus=Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI)
|Corpus ID=CLDI 021
|Vernacular title=Bona fide American
|Date of incident=2019/02/01
|Location of incident=Cracker Barrel Restaurant, El Paso, Texas
|Geographic location=31.8369, -106.56808
|Context=Restaurant
|Linguistic medium=English
|Targeted languages=Spanish
|Recording length=2 min, 31 sec
|DataDownloadURL=https://osf.io/5sdeg/
|TranscriptPDFURL=pmy5t
|MediaURL=2d9xz
}}

Adjacency pair

2025-04-07T13:41:29Z

SaulAlbert:

{{Infobox cite
| Authors = '''Tiina Eilittä''' (University of Oulu, Finland) (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1655-7535) & '''Anna Vatanen''' (University of Helsinki, Finland) (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8236-657X)
| To cite = Eilittä, Tiina & Vatanen, Anna. (2025). Adjacency pair. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott M. Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), ''Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics''. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). DOI: [http://10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ54V 10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ54V]
}}

A basic unit in the organization of social interaction and social action is a '''[[Sequence|sequence]]''' (e.g., Schegloff, 1968, 2007). Sequences minimally consist of two turns. When the link between the two turns is particularly tight and conventionalized, the sequence is formed of an '''adjacency pair'''. An adjacency pair is thus a sequence that is composed of two turns, called '''[[First pair part|first pair part]]''' and '''[[Second pair part|second pair part]]''', that are performed sequentially, one after another, by two separate speakers (Schegloff & Sacks, 1973). Examples of adjacency pairs include greeting sequences (''hi'' – ''hello''), offering sequences (as seen in Excerpt 1), and information-request sequences (as in Excerpt 2).

(1) (Schegloff, 2007: 51)

07 Don: Dju wa[nt a knife?
08 Bet: [Oh yea:h.=
09 Ann: =[Nyeh,

(2) (Hakulinen, 2001: 3) [telephone conversation]

01 E: On-ks toi äiti kotona.
is-Q that mother home-at
''Is your mummy there.''

02 S: O:n
is
''Yes''

At the core of adjacency pairs is the idea of '''conditional relevance''', which refers to how certain types of initiating turns make relevant a restricted range of possible next actions (Schegloff & Sacks, 1973; Schegloff, 2007). In other words, a speaker’s first pair part (e.g., an information-seeking question) makes a particular type-fitted second pair part (e.g., an answer) ''conditionally relevant'' and expected from the recipient (Sacks, 1995; Schegloff, 1968). If the relevant second pair part to a first pair part is not produced, co-participants may treat it as missing and hold the person who should have produced it as accountable (Davidson, 1984; Heritage, 1984; Pomerantz, 1984; Schegloff, 1968, 2007). This becomes visible, for example, when the speaker pursues a response from the recipient by repeating the initial first pair part (e.g., Eilittä & Vatanen, 2023) or modifying it (Davidson, 1984). Excerpt 3 shows how a child (Iiro, IIR) repeats the first pair part (a summons; lines 26, 29 and 31) and complements the verbal summonses by touching his dad’s (DAD) neck in order to pursue a response from him. His dad produces the second pair part (an answer) to the summonses in line 32 (line 28 is an end of a telling by Niklas, dad’s friend).

(3) Eilittä, 2024a: 113)

26 IIR: ISKÄ.
''daddy''

27 (0.4)

28 NIK: hyvä ava°in° [°°(itelle.)°°
''a good key (for oneself)''

29 IIR: [>isi,<
''daddy''

30 (0.3)%(0.5)%(0.3) ((=1.1))
iir %.....%touching dad’s neck-->>

31 IIR: i:si::,
''daddy''

32 DAD: mitä.
''what''

For some adjacency pairs, there is only one type-fitted response (e.g., a greeting to a greeting). For other adjacency pairs, however, there may be several alternative second pair parts from which the recipient of the first pair part needs to choose. For example, when the first pair part is an invitation, its recipient may either accept or decline it in the second pair part (e.g., Margutti et al. 2018). Similarly, a request may be either granted or rejected in the second pair part (e.g., Drew & Couper-Kuhlen 2014; for other turn types that a recipient of a request may use, see, e.g., Vatanen & Haddington 2023, 2024). Typically, one of the two alternatives is the '''[[Preferred|preferred]]''' one (e.g., acceptance or granting) while the other is the '''[[Dispreferred|dispreferred]]''' one (e.g., declining or rejection) (see '''[[Preference|preference]]''').

However, at times, speakers may respond to first pair parts with other actions, such as requests for clarification and counters (Levinson, 2013; Schegloff, 2007). These types of second turns are not, strictly speaking, the normatively expected second pair parts of the adjacency pair in question, and hence the two consecutive turns do not form an adjacency pair.

While first pair parts often make certain type-fitted responses strongly expected and relevant, not all initiating actions mobilise a response to the same degree. It has been shown that certain types of first pair parts, such as noticings and announcements, make a response less strongly expected (Stivers & Rossano, 2010). A silence (a '''[[gap]]''') after these types of actions is thus less problematic, such as in the following exchange from a situation where a group of people is shoveling dung in a sheep stable when Toomas makes a comment, shown on line 04 below, and no-one responds (Keevallik 2018).

(4) (Keevallik 2018: 320, slightly modified)

03 (3.0)

04 Toomas: Kurat see on nagu põhjatu sin. hh
''Damned it’s like bottomless here.''

05 (0.5)*(27.0)*(9.3)
*Veiko and Piia possibly looking at Toomas.
*Renee grabs wheelbarrow handles to pull it out.

06 Piia: aa,

The adjacency pair structure thus has a fundamental significance for speakers as well as for the study of conversations: first pair parts and the responses they receive display how mutual understanding and intersubjectivity are established in talk (Heritage, 1984; Schegloff, 1992). To analysts, participants’ responses to first pair parts provide evidence for how preceding talk has been understood by the participants. This analytic resource of Conversation Analysis is referred to as the next turn proof procedure (e.g., Sacks et al., 1974: 729).

In their minimal form, adjacency pairs involve two turns: a first pair part and a second pair part (Schegloff, 2007). Even though it is possible for sequences to be composed of minimal adjacency pairs only, especially when opening and closing parts of conversations (e.g., Schegloff, 2007: 22), sequences are often more complex than that. Complexity is brought to adjacency pairs with expansions. Adjacency pairs can be expanded in several ways. '''[[Pre-expansion (sequence)|Pre-expansions]]''' precede the first pair parts and thus the base pair (Schegloff, 2007: 27), that is, the underlying adjacency pair. '''[[Insert expansion (sequence)|Insert expansions]]''' occur between first and second pair parts, and '''[[Post-expansion (sequence)|post-expansions]]''' follow second pair parts (Levinson, 1983; Schegloff, 1988, 2007; Sidnell, 2010; Stivers, 2013).

Adjacency pairs may be produced solely with talk, but they can also be accomplished multimodally. Similar to verbal adjacency pairs, in these situations, the first pair part makes another action sequentially expected and conditionally relevant. Adjacency pairs are multimodal when the first and second pair parts are delivered in different modalities, for example, when the FPP is produced verbally (e.g., a request) and the SPP in a bodily manner (e.g., performing the requested action), as shown in Excerpt 5 (Rauniomaa & Keisanen, 2012; Keisanen & Rauniomaa, 2012; Stukenbrock, 2014, 2018; see also Mondada, 2014).

(5) (Keisanen & Rauniomaa, 2012: 327, simplified)

15 JEANNINE: Alex can you *pass me the pepper.
alex *initiates visual search

16 JONATHAN: *Laura can you say grace please
alex *grabs pepper and places it in front of Jeannine

At times, adjacency pairs can be performed as embodied actions without any accompanying talk. This can be seen, for example, in greetings, when participants wave at each other without producing verbal greetings (e.g., Siitonen et al., 2022). An example of this follows in Excerpt 6, where Noora and Linnea greet each other by waving. Noora and other participants have been in a Zoom space where Linnea joins. Linnea joining the space prompts Noora to smile and wave at Linnea, to which Linnea responds with a wave.

(6) (Siitonen et al., 2022: 96, simplified)

05 SAIJA: .hhh +heh during the day,
noora -> +waves
06 SAIJA: .hh*hhh [so ] it’s all quite,
07 SYLVIA: [°mm°]
linnea -> *waves

With respect to timing, in many cases the SPP follows the FPP in a consecutive manner. However, second pair parts can be – and often are – produced in overlap with the first pair parts (e.g., Vatanen 2014, 2018; Deppermann et al. 2021), and the early timing has been shown to carry specific meanings related, e.g., to an agreeing second speaker’s equal, independent commitment to the assertion made by a first speaker (Vatanen 2018). This issue of timing of SPPs becomes even less straightforward when one or both of the pair parts are embodied. Embodied SPPs are frequently produced already when the verbal first pair part is under way (see Deppermann et al. 2021 for an overview; and De Stefani 2021 on question-answer sequences where the answer is a head nod). For example, in a study of request sequences in specific contexts, Mondada (2021) shows how the local ecology (e.g., gesture, gaze, and bodily orientations) and the praxeological context (features of the local ongoing activity) enable the participants to anticipate and produce the next relevant action very early on – sometimes even before it has been requested. Consequently, some of these cases actually question the ‘firstness’ and ‘secondness’ of actions in certain contexts. Mondada (2021: 415) also points out that “the sequential value of an action crucially depends on the temporality in which it is achieved”.

Adjacency pairs have been researched in various populations of interactional participants. Research has demonstrated, for example, how children summon adults, and how the adults respond to the children’s summonses (e.g., Eilittä, 2024a; Cekaite, 2009; Filipi, 2009). In contrast, Suàrez (2017) has studied how people with dementia react to information-seeking questions, and shown how they produce less and less relevant answers to questions as their disease progresses. Adjacency pairs have also been studied between non-human participants. For example, Rossano (2013, 2024) has illustrated how the communicative actions of bonobo monkeys can be organized in adjacency pairs. Similarly, it has been demonstrated how types of adjacency pairs can also occur in conversations that humans have, for example, with robots (e.g., Tisserand & Baldauf-Quilliatre, 2024) and virtual assistants (Reineke & Helmer, 2024).

The majority of research on adjacency pairs, cited above, has focused on casual face-to-face or telephone conversations. However, adjacency pairs have also been studied in different face-to-face contexts, for example, in institutional interactions in courtrooms (e.g., Drew & de Almeida, 2020), classrooms (e.g., Korpela, Kurhila & Stevanovic, 2022), kindergartens (Eilittä, 2024b), and medical encounters (e.g., Heritage, 2009). As different technologies and conversational platforms have developed, research on adjacency pairs in technology-mediated interactions has also emerged. Research on online interactions has shown how, in text-based asynchronous or quasi-synchronous interactions, the first and second pair parts of adjacency pairs are not always adjacent (e.g., Garcia & Jacobs, 1999; König, 2019; Meredith, 2019). Adjacency pairs have also been studied in video- and audio-mediated meetings, for example, regarding openings of the meetings (e.g., Oittinen & Piirainen-Marsh, 2015), as well as in video calls between family members where adults are facilitating young children to respond to first pair parts directed at them (e.g., Gan, Greiffenhagen & Kendrick, 2023).

Finally, studies have shown that the adjacency pair structure is relevant for all human communities – at least all that have been studied in this respect. For example, the timing of second pair parts to first pair parts that ask a polar question has been shown to be strikingly similar across languages and cultures (Stivers et al. 2009). In Sidnell’s (2001: 1263) words, there is thus evidence that “the orderliness of conversation (and of talk-in-interaction generally) is grounded in a species-specific adaptation to the contingencies of human social intercourse.” Nevertheless, each language has its own ways of building up the social actions in an adjacency pair (for examples, see entries on specific social actions).

'''Additional Related Entries:'''

* '''[[Conditional relevance]]'''
* '''[[First pair part]]'''
* '''[[Insert expansion (sequence)|Insert expansion]]'''
* '''[[Next-turn proof procedure]]'''
* '''[[Pre-expansion (sequence)|Pre-expansion]]'''
* '''[[Post-expansion (sequence)|Post-expansion]]'''
* '''[[Second pair part]]'''
* '''[[Sequence]]'''
* '''[[Social action]]'''
* '''[[Turn-constructional unit (TCU)]]'''
* '''[[Turn-taking]]'''

'''Cited References:'''

Davidson, J. (1984). Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals dealing with potential or actual rejection. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), ''Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis'' (pp. 102–128). Cambridge University Press.

Deppermann, A., Mondada, L., & Pekarek Doehler, S. (2021). Early Responses: An Introduction. ''Discourse Processes'', 58(4), 293–307.

De Stefani, E. (2021). Embodied Responses to Questions-in-Progress. Silent Nods as Affirmative Answers. ''Discourse Processes'', 58(4), 353–371.

Drew, P., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2014). Requesting – from speech act to recruitment. In P. Drew, & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), ''Requesting in Social Interaction'' (pp. 1–34). John Benjamins.

Drew, P., & de Almeida, F. F. (2020). Order in court: Talk-in-interaction in juridical settings. In M. Coulthard, A. May & R. Sousa-Silva (Eds.), ''The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics, 2nd edition'' (pp. 177–191). Routledge.

Eilittä, T. (2024a). ''How to engage: children’s summonses to adults in families and kindergartens''. (ACTA Universitiasis Ouluensis, B Humaniora, 176) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Oulu].

Eilittä, T. (2024b). How to engage: Kindergarteners telling on their peers and recruiting adults’ assistance. ''Research on Children and Social Interaction'', 8(1), 1–31.

Eilittä, T., & Vatanen, A. (2023). Children’s self-repeated summonses to adults: pursuing responses and creating favourable conditions for interaction. ''Gesprächsforschung'', 24.

Gan, Y., Greiffenhagen, C., & Kendrick, K. H. (2023). Sequence Facilitation: Grandparents Engineering Parent-Child Interactions in Video Calls. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 56(1), 65–88.

Garcia, A. C., & Jacobs, J. B. (1999). The Eyes of the Beholder: Understanding the Turn-Taking System in Quasi-Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 32(4), 337–367.

Hakulinen, A. (2001). Minimal and non-minimal answers to yes-no questions. ''Pragmatics'' 11(1), 1–15.

Heritage, J. (1984). ''Garfinkel and ethnomethodology''. Polity Press.

Heritage, J. (2009). Questioning in Medicine. In S. Erlich & A. F. Freed (Eds.), ''Why do you ask? The function of questions in institutional discourse'' (pp. 42–68). Oxford University Press.

Hutchby, I., & Wooffitt, R. (1998). ''Conversation analysis''. Polity Press.

Keisanen, T., & Rauniomaa, M. (2012). The organization of participation and contingency in prebeginnings of request sequences. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 45(4), 323–351.

Korpela, R., Kurhila, S., & Stevanovic, M. (2022). Apologizing in Elementary School Peer Conflict Mediation. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 55(1), 1–17.

König, K. (2019). Sequential patterns in SMS and WhatsApp dialogues: Practices for coordinating actions and managing topics. ''Discourse & Communication'', 13(6), 612–629.

Levinson, S. C. (1983). ''Pragmatics''. Cambridge University Press.

Levinson. S. C. (2013). Action formation and ascription. In J. Sidnell, & T. Stivers (Eds.), ''Handbook of Conversation Analysis'' (pp. 103–130). Wiley-Blackwell.

Margutti, P., Tainio, L., Drew, P., & Traverso, V. (2018). Invitations and responses across different languages: Observations on the feasibility and relevance of a cross-linguistic comparative perspective on the study of actions. ''Journal of Pragmatics'' 125, 52-61.

Meredith, J. (2019). Conversation Analysis and Online Interaction. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 52(3), 241–256.

Mondada, L. (2014). The temporal orders or multiactivity: Operating and demonstrating in the surgical theatre. In P. Haddington, T. Keisanen, L. Mondada, & M. Nevile (Eds.), ''Multiactivity in social interaction: Beyond multitasking'' (pp. 35–75). Benjamins.

Mondada, L. (2021). How Early can Embodied Responses be? Issues in Time and Sequentiality. ''Discourse Processes'', 58(4), 397–418.

Oittinen, T., & Piirainen-Marsh, A. (2015). Openings in technology-mediated business meetings. ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 85, 47–66.

Pomerantz, A. M. (1984). Pursuing a response. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), ''Structures of social action: Studies on conversation analysis'' (pp. 152–163). Cambridge University Press.

Rauniomaa, M. & Keisanen, T. (2012). Two multimodal formats for responding to requests. ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 44(6–7), 829–842.

Reineke, S., & Helmer, H. (2024). User practices in dealing with trouble in interactions with virtual assistants in German: Repeating, altering and insisting. ''Discourse & Communication'', 18(6), 942–953.

Rossano, F. (2013). Sequence organization and timing of bonobo mother-infant interactions. ''Interaction Studies'', 14(2), 160–189.

Rossano, F. (2024). How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities. In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, T. Oittinen, I. Rautiainen & A. Vatanen (Eds.), ''Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: Emerging methods and new technologies'' (pp. 21–41). Routledge.

Sacks, H. (1995). ''Lectures on conversation: Volumes I & II''. Basil Blackwell.

Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. ''Language'', 50(4), 696–735.

Schegloff, E. A. (1968). The routine as achievement. ''Human Studies'', 9, 111–151.

Schegloff, E. A. (1988). Presequences and indirection: Applying speech act theory to ordinary conversation. ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 12(1), 55–62.

Schegloff, E. A. (1992). Repair after next turn: The last structurally provided defense of intersubjectivity in conversation. ''American Journal of Sociology'', 97(5), 1295–1345.

Schegloff, E. A. (2007). ''Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis''. Cambridge University Press.

Schegloff, E. A., & Sacks, H. (1973). Opening up closings. ''Semiotica'', 7, 361–382.

Sidnell, J. (2001). Conversational turn-taking in a Caribbean English Creole. ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 33, 1263–1290.

Sidnell, J. (2010). ''Conversation analysis: An introduction''. Wiley-Blackwell.

Siitonen, P., Helisten, M., Siromaa, M., Rauniomaa, M., & Holmström, M. (2022). Managing co-presence with a wave of the hand: Waving as an interactional resource in openings and closings of video-mediated breaks from work. ''Gesture'', 21(1), 82–114.

Stivers, T., Enfield, N. J., Brown, P., Englert, C., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Rossano, F., De Ruiter, J. P., Yoon, K-E. & Levinson, S. C. (2009). Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'', 106(26), 10587–10592.

Stivers, T. (2013). Sequence Organization. In J. Sidnell, & T. Stivers (Eds.), ''The handbook of conversation analysis'' (pp. 191–209). Wiley-Blackwell.

Stukenbrock, A. (2014). Take the words out of my mouth: Verbal instructions as embodied practices. ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 65, 80–102.

Stukenbrock, A. (2018). Forward-looking: Where do we go with multimodal projections? In A. Deppermann, & J. Streeck (Eds.), ''Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources'' (pp. 31–68). Benjamins.

Suárez, A. V. (2017). The question-answer adjacency pair in dementia discourse. ''International Journal of Applied Linguistics'', 28(1), 86–101.

Tisserand, L., & Baldauf-Quilliatre, H. (2024). Rejecting a robot’s offer: An analysis of preference. ''Discourse & Communication'', 18(6), 931–941.

Vatanen, A. (2014). '''[http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-0280-5 Responding in overlap: Agency, epistemicity and social action in conversation]'''. PhD thesis. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.

Vatanen, A. (2018). Responding in early overlap: Recognitional onsets in assertion sequences. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 51(2), 107–126.

Vatanen, A. & Haddington, P. (2023). Multiactivity in adult-child interaction. Accounts resolving conflicting courses of action in request sequences. ''Text & Talk'', 43(2), 263–290.

Vatanen, A. & Haddington, P. (2024). Oota pikku hetki. Lykkäys sosiaalisena toimintona perhevuorovaikutuksessa [“Wait a moment”. Suspensions in recruitment sequences in family interaction]. ''Virittäjä'' 1/2024, 4–34.

'''Additional References:'''

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Adjacency pair

2025-04-07T13:41:18Z

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| Authors = '''Tiina Eilittä''' (University of Oulu, Finland) (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1655-7535) & '''Anna Vatanen''' (University of Helsinki, Finland) (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8236-657X)
| To cite = Eilittä, Tiina & Vatanen, Anna. (2025). Adjacency pair. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott M. Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), ''Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics''. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). DOI: [[http://10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ54V 10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ54V]]
}}

A basic unit in the organization of social interaction and social action is a '''[[Sequence|sequence]]''' (e.g., Schegloff, 1968, 2007). Sequences minimally consist of two turns. When the link between the two turns is particularly tight and conventionalized, the sequence is formed of an '''adjacency pair'''. An adjacency pair is thus a sequence that is composed of two turns, called '''[[First pair part|first pair part]]''' and '''[[Second pair part|second pair part]]''', that are performed sequentially, one after another, by two separate speakers (Schegloff & Sacks, 1973). Examples of adjacency pairs include greeting sequences (''hi'' – ''hello''), offering sequences (as seen in Excerpt 1), and information-request sequences (as in Excerpt 2).

(1) (Schegloff, 2007: 51)

07 Don: Dju wa[nt a knife?
08 Bet: [Oh yea:h.=
09 Ann: =[Nyeh,

(2) (Hakulinen, 2001: 3) [telephone conversation]

01 E: On-ks toi äiti kotona.
is-Q that mother home-at
''Is your mummy there.''

02 S: O:n
is
''Yes''

At the core of adjacency pairs is the idea of '''conditional relevance''', which refers to how certain types of initiating turns make relevant a restricted range of possible next actions (Schegloff & Sacks, 1973; Schegloff, 2007). In other words, a speaker’s first pair part (e.g., an information-seeking question) makes a particular type-fitted second pair part (e.g., an answer) ''conditionally relevant'' and expected from the recipient (Sacks, 1995; Schegloff, 1968). If the relevant second pair part to a first pair part is not produced, co-participants may treat it as missing and hold the person who should have produced it as accountable (Davidson, 1984; Heritage, 1984; Pomerantz, 1984; Schegloff, 1968, 2007). This becomes visible, for example, when the speaker pursues a response from the recipient by repeating the initial first pair part (e.g., Eilittä & Vatanen, 2023) or modifying it (Davidson, 1984). Excerpt 3 shows how a child (Iiro, IIR) repeats the first pair part (a summons; lines 26, 29 and 31) and complements the verbal summonses by touching his dad’s (DAD) neck in order to pursue a response from him. His dad produces the second pair part (an answer) to the summonses in line 32 (line 28 is an end of a telling by Niklas, dad’s friend).

(3) Eilittä, 2024a: 113)

26 IIR: ISKÄ.
''daddy''

27 (0.4)

28 NIK: hyvä ava°in° [°°(itelle.)°°
''a good key (for oneself)''

29 IIR: [>isi,<
''daddy''

30 (0.3)%(0.5)%(0.3) ((=1.1))
iir %.....%touching dad’s neck-->>

31 IIR: i:si::,
''daddy''

32 DAD: mitä.
''what''

For some adjacency pairs, there is only one type-fitted response (e.g., a greeting to a greeting). For other adjacency pairs, however, there may be several alternative second pair parts from which the recipient of the first pair part needs to choose. For example, when the first pair part is an invitation, its recipient may either accept or decline it in the second pair part (e.g., Margutti et al. 2018). Similarly, a request may be either granted or rejected in the second pair part (e.g., Drew & Couper-Kuhlen 2014; for other turn types that a recipient of a request may use, see, e.g., Vatanen & Haddington 2023, 2024). Typically, one of the two alternatives is the '''[[Preferred|preferred]]''' one (e.g., acceptance or granting) while the other is the '''[[Dispreferred|dispreferred]]''' one (e.g., declining or rejection) (see '''[[Preference|preference]]''').

However, at times, speakers may respond to first pair parts with other actions, such as requests for clarification and counters (Levinson, 2013; Schegloff, 2007). These types of second turns are not, strictly speaking, the normatively expected second pair parts of the adjacency pair in question, and hence the two consecutive turns do not form an adjacency pair.

While first pair parts often make certain type-fitted responses strongly expected and relevant, not all initiating actions mobilise a response to the same degree. It has been shown that certain types of first pair parts, such as noticings and announcements, make a response less strongly expected (Stivers & Rossano, 2010). A silence (a '''[[gap]]''') after these types of actions is thus less problematic, such as in the following exchange from a situation where a group of people is shoveling dung in a sheep stable when Toomas makes a comment, shown on line 04 below, and no-one responds (Keevallik 2018).

(4) (Keevallik 2018: 320, slightly modified)

03 (3.0)

04 Toomas: Kurat see on nagu põhjatu sin. hh
''Damned it’s like bottomless here.''

05 (0.5)*(27.0)*(9.3)
*Veiko and Piia possibly looking at Toomas.
*Renee grabs wheelbarrow handles to pull it out.

06 Piia: aa,

The adjacency pair structure thus has a fundamental significance for speakers as well as for the study of conversations: first pair parts and the responses they receive display how mutual understanding and intersubjectivity are established in talk (Heritage, 1984; Schegloff, 1992). To analysts, participants’ responses to first pair parts provide evidence for how preceding talk has been understood by the participants. This analytic resource of Conversation Analysis is referred to as the next turn proof procedure (e.g., Sacks et al., 1974: 729).

In their minimal form, adjacency pairs involve two turns: a first pair part and a second pair part (Schegloff, 2007). Even though it is possible for sequences to be composed of minimal adjacency pairs only, especially when opening and closing parts of conversations (e.g., Schegloff, 2007: 22), sequences are often more complex than that. Complexity is brought to adjacency pairs with expansions. Adjacency pairs can be expanded in several ways. '''[[Pre-expansion (sequence)|Pre-expansions]]''' precede the first pair parts and thus the base pair (Schegloff, 2007: 27), that is, the underlying adjacency pair. '''[[Insert expansion (sequence)|Insert expansions]]''' occur between first and second pair parts, and '''[[Post-expansion (sequence)|post-expansions]]''' follow second pair parts (Levinson, 1983; Schegloff, 1988, 2007; Sidnell, 2010; Stivers, 2013).

Adjacency pairs may be produced solely with talk, but they can also be accomplished multimodally. Similar to verbal adjacency pairs, in these situations, the first pair part makes another action sequentially expected and conditionally relevant. Adjacency pairs are multimodal when the first and second pair parts are delivered in different modalities, for example, when the FPP is produced verbally (e.g., a request) and the SPP in a bodily manner (e.g., performing the requested action), as shown in Excerpt 5 (Rauniomaa & Keisanen, 2012; Keisanen & Rauniomaa, 2012; Stukenbrock, 2014, 2018; see also Mondada, 2014).

(5) (Keisanen & Rauniomaa, 2012: 327, simplified)

15 JEANNINE: Alex can you *pass me the pepper.
alex *initiates visual search

16 JONATHAN: *Laura can you say grace please
alex *grabs pepper and places it in front of Jeannine

At times, adjacency pairs can be performed as embodied actions without any accompanying talk. This can be seen, for example, in greetings, when participants wave at each other without producing verbal greetings (e.g., Siitonen et al., 2022). An example of this follows in Excerpt 6, where Noora and Linnea greet each other by waving. Noora and other participants have been in a Zoom space where Linnea joins. Linnea joining the space prompts Noora to smile and wave at Linnea, to which Linnea responds with a wave.

(6) (Siitonen et al., 2022: 96, simplified)

05 SAIJA: .hhh +heh during the day,
noora -> +waves
06 SAIJA: .hh*hhh [so ] it’s all quite,
07 SYLVIA: [°mm°]
linnea -> *waves

With respect to timing, in many cases the SPP follows the FPP in a consecutive manner. However, second pair parts can be – and often are – produced in overlap with the first pair parts (e.g., Vatanen 2014, 2018; Deppermann et al. 2021), and the early timing has been shown to carry specific meanings related, e.g., to an agreeing second speaker’s equal, independent commitment to the assertion made by a first speaker (Vatanen 2018). This issue of timing of SPPs becomes even less straightforward when one or both of the pair parts are embodied. Embodied SPPs are frequently produced already when the verbal first pair part is under way (see Deppermann et al. 2021 for an overview; and De Stefani 2021 on question-answer sequences where the answer is a head nod). For example, in a study of request sequences in specific contexts, Mondada (2021) shows how the local ecology (e.g., gesture, gaze, and bodily orientations) and the praxeological context (features of the local ongoing activity) enable the participants to anticipate and produce the next relevant action very early on – sometimes even before it has been requested. Consequently, some of these cases actually question the ‘firstness’ and ‘secondness’ of actions in certain contexts. Mondada (2021: 415) also points out that “the sequential value of an action crucially depends on the temporality in which it is achieved”.

Adjacency pairs have been researched in various populations of interactional participants. Research has demonstrated, for example, how children summon adults, and how the adults respond to the children’s summonses (e.g., Eilittä, 2024a; Cekaite, 2009; Filipi, 2009). In contrast, Suàrez (2017) has studied how people with dementia react to information-seeking questions, and shown how they produce less and less relevant answers to questions as their disease progresses. Adjacency pairs have also been studied between non-human participants. For example, Rossano (2013, 2024) has illustrated how the communicative actions of bonobo monkeys can be organized in adjacency pairs. Similarly, it has been demonstrated how types of adjacency pairs can also occur in conversations that humans have, for example, with robots (e.g., Tisserand & Baldauf-Quilliatre, 2024) and virtual assistants (Reineke & Helmer, 2024).

The majority of research on adjacency pairs, cited above, has focused on casual face-to-face or telephone conversations. However, adjacency pairs have also been studied in different face-to-face contexts, for example, in institutional interactions in courtrooms (e.g., Drew & de Almeida, 2020), classrooms (e.g., Korpela, Kurhila & Stevanovic, 2022), kindergartens (Eilittä, 2024b), and medical encounters (e.g., Heritage, 2009). As different technologies and conversational platforms have developed, research on adjacency pairs in technology-mediated interactions has also emerged. Research on online interactions has shown how, in text-based asynchronous or quasi-synchronous interactions, the first and second pair parts of adjacency pairs are not always adjacent (e.g., Garcia & Jacobs, 1999; König, 2019; Meredith, 2019). Adjacency pairs have also been studied in video- and audio-mediated meetings, for example, regarding openings of the meetings (e.g., Oittinen & Piirainen-Marsh, 2015), as well as in video calls between family members where adults are facilitating young children to respond to first pair parts directed at them (e.g., Gan, Greiffenhagen & Kendrick, 2023).

Finally, studies have shown that the adjacency pair structure is relevant for all human communities – at least all that have been studied in this respect. For example, the timing of second pair parts to first pair parts that ask a polar question has been shown to be strikingly similar across languages and cultures (Stivers et al. 2009). In Sidnell’s (2001: 1263) words, there is thus evidence that “the orderliness of conversation (and of talk-in-interaction generally) is grounded in a species-specific adaptation to the contingencies of human social intercourse.” Nevertheless, each language has its own ways of building up the social actions in an adjacency pair (for examples, see entries on specific social actions).

'''Additional Related Entries:'''

* '''[[Conditional relevance]]'''
* '''[[First pair part]]'''
* '''[[Insert expansion (sequence)|Insert expansion]]'''
* '''[[Next-turn proof procedure]]'''
* '''[[Pre-expansion (sequence)|Pre-expansion]]'''
* '''[[Post-expansion (sequence)|Post-expansion]]'''
* '''[[Second pair part]]'''
* '''[[Sequence]]'''
* '''[[Social action]]'''
* '''[[Turn-constructional unit (TCU)]]'''
* '''[[Turn-taking]]'''

'''Cited References:'''

Davidson, J. (1984). Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals dealing with potential or actual rejection. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), ''Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis'' (pp. 102–128). Cambridge University Press.

Deppermann, A., Mondada, L., & Pekarek Doehler, S. (2021). Early Responses: An Introduction. ''Discourse Processes'', 58(4), 293–307.

De Stefani, E. (2021). Embodied Responses to Questions-in-Progress. Silent Nods as Affirmative Answers. ''Discourse Processes'', 58(4), 353–371.

Drew, P., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2014). Requesting – from speech act to recruitment. In P. Drew, & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), ''Requesting in Social Interaction'' (pp. 1–34). John Benjamins.

Drew, P., & de Almeida, F. F. (2020). Order in court: Talk-in-interaction in juridical settings. In M. Coulthard, A. May & R. Sousa-Silva (Eds.), ''The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics, 2nd edition'' (pp. 177–191). Routledge.

Eilittä, T. (2024a). ''How to engage: children’s summonses to adults in families and kindergartens''. (ACTA Universitiasis Ouluensis, B Humaniora, 176) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Oulu].

Eilittä, T. (2024b). How to engage: Kindergarteners telling on their peers and recruiting adults’ assistance. ''Research on Children and Social Interaction'', 8(1), 1–31.

Eilittä, T., & Vatanen, A. (2023). Children’s self-repeated summonses to adults: pursuing responses and creating favourable conditions for interaction. ''Gesprächsforschung'', 24.

Gan, Y., Greiffenhagen, C., & Kendrick, K. H. (2023). Sequence Facilitation: Grandparents Engineering Parent-Child Interactions in Video Calls. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 56(1), 65–88.

Garcia, A. C., & Jacobs, J. B. (1999). The Eyes of the Beholder: Understanding the Turn-Taking System in Quasi-Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 32(4), 337–367.

Hakulinen, A. (2001). Minimal and non-minimal answers to yes-no questions. ''Pragmatics'' 11(1), 1–15.

Heritage, J. (1984). ''Garfinkel and ethnomethodology''. Polity Press.

Heritage, J. (2009). Questioning in Medicine. In S. Erlich & A. F. Freed (Eds.), ''Why do you ask? The function of questions in institutional discourse'' (pp. 42–68). Oxford University Press.

Hutchby, I., & Wooffitt, R. (1998). ''Conversation analysis''. Polity Press.

Keisanen, T., & Rauniomaa, M. (2012). The organization of participation and contingency in prebeginnings of request sequences. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 45(4), 323–351.

Korpela, R., Kurhila, S., & Stevanovic, M. (2022). Apologizing in Elementary School Peer Conflict Mediation. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', 55(1), 1–17.

König, K. (2019). Sequential patterns in SMS and WhatsApp dialogues: Practices for coordinating actions and managing topics. ''Discourse & Communication'', 13(6), 612–629.

Levinson, S. C. (1983). ''Pragmatics''. Cambridge University Press.

Levinson. S. C. (2013). Action formation and ascription. In J. Sidnell, & T. Stivers (Eds.), ''Handbook of Conversation Analysis'' (pp. 103–130). Wiley-Blackwell.

Margutti, P., Tainio, L., Drew, P., & Traverso, V. (2018). Invitations and responses across different languages: Observations on the feasibility and relevance of a cross-linguistic comparative perspective on the study of actions. ''Journal of Pragmatics'' 125, 52-61.

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