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| CLIC GSA 2020 Conference + | THE 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND CULTURE Access and Engagement: Mechanisms of Social (In)equality April 23rd-25th, 2020 University of California, Los Angeles Kerckhoff Grand Salon (Map) Presented by: The Center for Language, Interaction and Culture Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Los Angeles & The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Santa Barbara The 26th Annual Conference on Language Interaction, and Culture will be hosted at UCLA on April 23-25, 2020. The theme for 2020 is “Access and Engagement: Mechanisms of Social (In)equality.” Plenary speakers this year includes Dr. Ananda Marin (UCLA, Education), Dr. Justin Richland (UC-Irvine, Anthropology), and Dr. Stephanie Hyeri Kim (CSUN, Linguistics). All students interested in presenting in the conference should submit abstracts (no longer than 500 words) to 2020clic@gmail.com. + |
| CMPH EMCA Career Pathways Flinders University Australia 09 May 2022 + | '''Date''': 09 May 2022 '''Time''': 10am - 11:30am ACST Join us for our ‘Career Pathway’ event aimed to help EMCAs identifying and plan a career that best matches their strength and values. '''About this event''' The event will include invited talks and discussion panel from 4 speakers with different career pathways: Prof James Smith (Deputy Dean of Rural and Remote Health, and Matthew Flinders Professor of Health and Social Equity at Flinders University) Dr Pallave Dasari (Strategic Partnerships and Development Officer, Chief Scientist for South Australia) Dr Vicky Staikopoulos (Managing Director and Co-founder of Woven Optics and Product Manager at Miniprobes) Dr Reuben Jacob (Manager, Business & Strategic Projects at Bellberry) We will be accommodating IN-PERSON and ONLINE streaming capabilities. Please join us at Alere Function Centre, Flinders University for an engaging and interactive discussion on how you can best plan to kick goals in your career and life! If you wish to join us online, please access via Teams, or e-mail alyce.martin@flinders.edu.au for assistance. Light refreshments will be provided + |
| COACT Conference 2019 + | '''COACT Conference 2019''' '''Interaction and discourse in flux: Changing landscapes of everyday life''' '''University of Oulu, Finland, 24-26 April, 2019''' This conference explores how changes in society emerge in interactions and discourses. How do these changes influence, and how are they influenced by, participants in various contexts of work and everyday life? We warmly welcome contributions that outline future trends and present new perspectives on interaction and discourse studies. Presentations may investigate the complexity of different settings, data, methods and theories. We invite papers and posters from different viewpoints, such as: * Methodologies in flux: developing and combining different methods and materials, covering also big data and thick data * Research approaches in flux: reconsidering theories, societal impact of research, researchers' responsibility in engaging in public discourse * Technologies in flux: relationships and interactions with, via and within ubiquitous technologies * Participation in flux: examinations of togetherness, encounters and human sociality in different settings; how access and participation may be redefined, e.g., in working life, education and online environments The theme can be examined from, but is not restricted to, the following research approaches and strategies: action research, activity theory, content analysis, conversation analysis, cultural-historical activity theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, mediated discourse analysis, multimodal interaction analysis, narrative analysis and nexus analysis. The invited keynote speakers address the conference theme from their respective viewpoints: *''Jon Hindmarsh'', King’s College London *''Rodney Jones'', University of Reading Leena Kuure, University of Oulu *''Paul McIlvenny'', Aalborg University The main language of the conference is English, but presentations in other languages are also welcome. '''Important dates''': *Submission of abstracts: '''19 October 2018''' *Notifications of acceptance: ''30 November 2018'' *Registration will open in January 2019 *Deadline for registration and payment: 28 February 2019 '''Papers and poster presentations:''' The abstracts for both papers and poster presentations are limited to 300 words, including references. The time allotted to section papers will be 20 mins + 10 mins. Posters will be presented during a Poster Walk, which consists of short 5-minute talks followed by commentary and a general discussion. Please submit your abstract and find more information at the conference website: http://www.oulu.fi/coact/conference2019 The conference fee is 80 €. The fee includes lunches and coffees. Contact Pentti Haddington (pentti.haddington (at) oulu.fi) Tiina Keisanen (tiina.keisanen (at) oulu.fi) '''About COACT''' The conference is organized by the research community COACT - "Complexity of (inter)action: Towards an understanding of skilled multimodal participation", based at the University of Oulu, Finland. Research in COACT focuses on how language and multimodal resources feature in the complexity of social action and interaction, and how social participants skillfully manage and organize their conduct at complex sites of learning, work and everyday life. For more information: http://www.oulu.fi/coact/ '''Organising committee:''' Pentti Haddington (conference chair), Tiina Keisanen (conference chair), Tiina Eilittä, Marika Helisten, Mari Holmström, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Marjukka Käsmä, Annamari Martinviita, Florence Oloff, Iira Rautiainen, Maritta Riekki, Pauliina Siitonen, Maarit Siromaa, Anna Suorsa, Anna Vatanen '''Conference sponsors''': research projects HANS (Human Activity in Natural Settings) and iTask (Linguistic and embodied features of interactional multitasking), funded by the Academy of Finland + |
| CRSI2017 + | CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS First edition of the Young Researchers Conference of the Center for Research on Social Interactions (CRSI) 16 – 17 February 2017, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland In the past few decades, there has been an exponential growth in the interest in research on social interaction in various academic disciplines such as psychology, linguistics, anthropology, neurosciences, education, and artificial intelligence. In many respects, social interaction research has garnered such popularity due to the highly interdisciplinary research objectives that incorporate an array of different interactional phenomena to study and theoretical and methodological frameworks to explore. The main goal of the Center for Research on Social Interactions (CRSI) and its affiliated doctoral school is to promote this interdisciplinarity by facilitating collaborations between scientists working on social interaction. The CRSI doctoral school introduces young researchers working on social interaction to an interdisciplinary approach, and helps them develop their theoretical and methodological backgrounds in the field by means of epistemological and empirical lectures, conferences, training events, and workshops. In organizing this two-day-conference, we offer young researchers working on social interaction an opportunity to present their work and to learn from experienced scholars in an environment that fosters dialogue and feedback across academic disciplines. We hope that these days will facilitate research collaborations and provide an opportunity to the participants to explore new methodologies, research tools, and theoretical frameworks in order to improve their own research. Confirmed keynote speakers · Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London, England) · Sara Greco (University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland) · Michèle Grossen (Université of Lausanne, Switzerland) · Klaus Zuberbühler (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) The conference will include a number of invited talks by social interaction researchers in various disciplines: Beatrice Ligorio (University of Bari, Italy), Eric Mayor (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Gaëlle Molinari (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Cécile Petitjean (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Sonia Szramek-Karcz (University of Katowice, Poland). We also encourage all interested PhD students working with social interaction to participate actively in the conference by presenting their completed or work-in-progress research projects. We invite submissions for two types of presentations: (1) poster presentations, and (2) short oral communications. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 27 December 2016 For further information about the presentation formats, how to submit an abstract and register for the event, please visit the CRSI-YR conference at the following address: http://www.crsi-yr-conference.com/ CRSI website: http://www2.unine.ch/interactions-sociales + |
| CaHRU Improvement science and research methods seminar on conversation analysis 26 Apr2022 + | The April CaHRU research seminar will take place at 11.00 on 26.04.2022 and will be presented by Kim Kirby who is a clinical academic paramedic at South Western Ambulance Service and PhD candidate at University of the West of England. Kim is funded on a National Institute for Health Research Clinical Academic Doctoral Research Fellowship Award. Her fellowship explored how the ambulance service can improve the recognition and response to patients contacting the ambulance service who are at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. One of the objectives of the fellowship utilised conversation analysis to analyse ambulance emergency call data involving calls for patients who were alive at the time of the 999 call and then subsequently suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Kim analysed a sample of 50 anonymised emergency call recordings and transcripts and completed conversation analysis on the opening sequence of the emergency call. The analysis revealed some interesting results and during the seminar some of the findings will be discussed. If you would like to attend, please contact Sue Bowler sbowler@lincoln.ac.uk for a link to join. + |
| Call for Book Proposals: New Books Series on Language, Discourse & Mental Health + | The editors are very pleased to announce the new book series "Language, Discourse and Mental Health" published with the University of Exeter Press. This book series is a unique resource to further knowledge and understanding of mental health from a pluralistically informed linguistic perspective. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches to language-based analysis, the empirical and theoretical contributions will provide a compelling insight on mental health from a range of perspectives and contexts, including psychotherapeutic communication, public presentations of mental health, literary accounts of lived experiences, and language features associated to specific mental health problems. This interdisciplinary book series will be an essential reference for students, researchers and practitioners in linguistics, communication, education, cognitive science, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, special needs, medicine, nursing, and medical anthropology. Scope of the Book Series The book series is framed in terms of linguistic and communication perspectives that differentiate between communication about mental health (i.e., language performance or use), and the communication of individuals with mental health problems (i.e., language competence or systems) in real-world and research contexts. Such a focus is anticipated to be captured through the following linguistic perspectives: sociolinguistics and sociocultural linguistics, cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics, literary linguistics and stylistics. These can be applied through a range of language-based methodologies, including qualitative methods (e.g., discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, narrative analysis, thematic analysis), quantitative methods (e.g., corpus-based approaches, quantitative content analysis), and also experimental methods. Call for Book Proposals The book series "Language, Discourse and Mental Health" is accepting book proposals for monographs and edited volumes. To discuss your book proposal, please contact the book series editors. The book series will launch in spring 2019. Book proposal form available at: http://www.exeterpress.co.uk/documents/1562/Book%20Proposal%20Form.pdf (see also http://www.exeterpress.co.uk/forauthors) Please distribute widely. The Editors: Dr. Laura A. Cariola Laura.Cariola@ed.ac.uk Dr. Stefan Ecks Stefan.Ecks@ed.ac.uk Dr. Billy Lee Billy.Lee@ed.ac.uk Dr. Lisa Mikesell Mikesell.Lisa@gmail.com Dr. Anders Nordahl-Hansen a.j.nordahl-hansen@isp.uio.no + |
| Call for Manuscripts CA as Change Agent Book Chapter 2022 + | Dear Colleagues: We are soliciting manuscripts for an edited volume on *conversation analysis as a change agent in language teacher education*. Over the last decade, conversation analytic (CA) findings from classroom discourse studies have started feeding into language teacher education contexts, yielding a number of CA-based teacher training frameworks such as SETT (Walsh 2013), IMDAT (Sert, 2019) and FAB (Waring & Creider, 2021). We have now reached a tipping point of grappling with or groping for the material impact of CA in the actual language classrooms around the world. In particular, we are interested in *studies that document practice-based changes (e.g., change in teacher practices in the classroom and in reflective practices) in which CA plays a role.* We realize that such CA-informed “interventions” can come in many shapes and forms and welcome a multitude of endeavors and innovations. Should you be interested in participating in such a project, please send us a *300-word abstract by* *December 5, 2022 *that describes (1) the context of the study, (2) the specific role CA plays as a change agent, and (3) the types of changes (to be) documented. Decisions for possible inclusion in the volume will be sent out by December 15, 2022, with submissions of first drafts due by July 1, 2023. Please use this link to submit your abstract: https://bit.ly/3zwd73x Many thanks for your consideration. We look forward to hearing from you. Profs. Olcay Sert & Hansun Waring For inquiries contact: olcay.sert@mdu.se OR hz30@tc.columbia.edu + |
| Call for Nominations: 2020 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 Years + | Call for nominations: 2020 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 years (a.k.a., “The Recent Scholarship Award”) Deadline: September 1, 2020 This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction. Any member of the National Communication Association (NCA) LSI Division may nominate a published work; the senior author must be a member of the LSI Division during the year in which the award is made. Selection criteria shall include scholarly merit, contribution to knowledge in language and social interaction, and current impact on the discipline. Studies of an analytical, critical, empirical, philosophical, or theoretical nature that make a contribution to LSI are eligible for consideration. Only actually published works will be considered. To submit a nomination for this award, please include a 1-page letter explaining the significance of the work and the impact it has on our field, and (if available) include a PDF copy of the work along with the complete citation. Direct your nominations to LSI Immediate Past Chair, Mardi Kidwell (mkidwell@unh.edu). Deadline for submission is September 1, 2020. The award will be presented at the LSI Business Meeting at the 2020 NCA Conference. + |
| Call for Paper Submissions for American Sociological Association Panels 2021 + | We are issuing a Call for paper submissions to our Section Sessions (and Regular Sessions) for the 2021 ASA Meetings which will be held virtually due to Covid 19. Last year, our Section had very robust attendance and lively discussions for each of our panels in this virtual format. We expect we’ll be even better with a year of practice! The panel options are described below and we encourage everyone to submit in hopes of adding further panels. The submissions portal is now open and will close on February 3 at 11:59 PM Eastern time. One important change: Submitters may elect to submit either full papers (15-35 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages). If participants submit an abstract and it is accepted, the full paper will be expected to be sent to the session participants at least one month before the Annual Meeting. We are hopeful that this change will encourage more submissions. https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2021/submissions ASA’s submission process is straightforward with one exception: When you submit, you are first asked to select either “Regular Session on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis” or a “Section Session.” The regular sessions are organized by Anne Rawls (arawls@bentley.edu). The section sessions are organized by Tanya Stivers (stivers@soc.ucla.edu) and Jay Meehan (meehan@oakland.edu). We encourage papers that are reporting your new work using EM and/or CA methods in all of these sessions. The organizers will work together to place papers in panels. The section has two panels currently: “New Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis” and “Current Research in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.” We welcome research that utilizes other methods but would be of interest to our section’s membership. To maximize the programming of papers, after you select a first session choice, you will be asked if you would like your paper to be considered by other alternate session choices (2nd and 3rd choices). Please list as your alternate choices the other panel options listed above to enable us as organizers to maximize the programming and provide a nice group of papers for us to hear in August! If you still find this confusing (it is!) please contact any of us organizers (Jay, Anne, or Tanya). + |
| Call for Papers in BMC Psychology + | We are calling for papers for a special collection on "Mental Health, Discourse, and Stigma" in BMC Psychology. The special collection will bring together sociolinguistic research on mental health as well as mental health stigma. The central objective of the collection is to focus on how mental health and associated stigma is constructed and communicated in different contexts. Submissions should utilize established sociolinguistic methods such as conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics (amongst others). We especially welcome submissions focusing on non-English data and from scholars in the Global South. Guest editors: David Matthew Edmonds, Zoe Fortune, Olga Zayts-Spence; The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Submission date: 10 November 2023 (full papers). Details and to submit: https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/mhds Contact email: edmonds@hku.hk or bmcpsychology@biomedcentral.com + |
| Call for abstracts – edited book – “sensing life: the social organization of the senses in interaction” + | INTERACTION, ORGANISATION & TECHNOLOGY Exploring the relationship between interaction, organisation and technology SKIP TO CONTENT MUSEUMS OPTOMETRY MARKETS AND MARKETING TECHNOLOGY AND (SOCIAL) MEDIA METHODS AND METHODOLOGY ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND INTERACTIONISM BOOK REVIEWS PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINES BOOKS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – EDITED BOOK – “SENSING LIFE: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE SENSES IN INTERACTION” #SOCIOLOGY #SSSI #EMCA #INTERACTION #SENSES Announcement, book, Call for Papers, Ethnomethodology, sociology, SSSI Sensing Life: the social organization of the senses in interaction Co-edited by Will Gibson (University College London), Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University), and Dirk vom Lehn (King’s College London) This edited collection aims to continue the advances in scholarship of the senses as interactional phenomena and experiences. Our aim is to bring together contemporary empirical research that looks at how the senses are used in interaction, showcasing the broad range of concepts and methodologies through which they can be examined. In the past decade or so interactionist researchers have been increasingly interested in the role of the senses in social interaction (see e.g., Vannini, Waskul and Gottschalk 2012). A special issue of the journal Symbolic Interaction in 2021 brought together studies that examined sensorial practice, focusing on diverse areas including everyday acts such as cheese and coffee tasting (Mondada, 2021; Fele and Liberman, 2021) through to the professional work of nurses (Grosjean, Matte, and Nahon-Serfaty, 2021) and race car testers (Salvadori and Gobo). These collected papers marked an important development in the empirical examination of communication about the senses, showing how talk, gesture, gaze, material artefacts and other aspects of the physical environment can be mobilised to make the senses accountable to others. The introduction to this special issue (vom Lehn and Gibson, 2021) pointed to several interrelated features of sensorial praxis which the papers helped to bring into focus. The intersection between different sensorial experiences; the entwinement of the senses with cultural resources and practices; their contextually situated nature and the multimodal, structured but also serendipitous form of expression. The proposed volume aims to continue these lines of analysis by inviting contributions from a multiplicity of approaches, including symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and cognate areas from Discourse Studies and multimodal inquiry. To balance the strong EMCA theme represented in the 2021 special issue we are particularly keen to encourage papers from symbolic interactionism or that use ethnographic methods. We are interested in papers that examine conceptually and empirically the uses of the senses in ‘making something happen’, which might be in an institutional or non-institutional context. We welcome tentative expressions of interest and are happy to explore the fit of possible research papers with the above theme. An abstract of no more than 400 words should be submitted by email to Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, and Dirk vom Lehn (SensesInteractionism@gmail.com) by 2 May 2023. Bibliography Fele, Giolo, and Kenneth Liberman. 2021. ‘Some Discovered Practices of Lay Coffee Drinkers’. Symbolic Interaction 44, no. 1: 40–62. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.486. Gibson, Will, and Dirk vom Lehn. 2021. ‘Introduction: The Senses in Social Interaction’. Symbolic Interaction 44, no. 1: 3-9. Grosjean, Sylvie, Frederik Matte, and Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. 2021. ‘“Sensory Ordering” in Nurses’ Clinical Decision-Making: Making Visible Senses, Sensing, and “Sensory Work” in the Hospital’. Symbolic Interaction 44, no. 1: 163–182. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.490. Mondada, Lorenza. 2021. ‘Orchestrating Multi-Sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language’. Symbolic Interaction 44, no. 1: 63–86. Vannini, Philip, Dennis D. Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk. 2012. The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture. London: Routledge. Salvadori, Francesca Astrid, and Giampietro Gobo. 2021. ‘Sensing the Bike: Creating a Collaborative Understanding of a Multi-Sensorial Experience in MotoGP Racing’. Symbolic Interaction 44, no. 1: 112–133. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.529. Wiggins, Sally, and Leelo Keevallik. 2021. ‘Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices’. Symbolic Interaction 44, no. 1: 87–111. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.527. + |
| Call for chapters: Conversations in Criminal Justice + | We are soliciting manuscripts for an edited book on Conversations in criminal justice: Insights from discursive psychology and ethnomethodological conversation analysis to be proposed as part of a collection for ‘Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology’ edited by Cristian Tileagă, Elizabeth Stokoe, and Sally Wiggins Young. Authentic, recorded interactions in criminal justice settings were subject to sustained and detailed analysis in some of the earliest examples of conversation analysis (CA), ethnomethodology (EM) and discursive psychology (DP). This fine-grained approach revealed the interactional character unique to different criminal justice settings, for example, in the work of Atkinson & Drew (1979) on restrictive turn-taking in courtrooms. Studies also examined interactional practices used in the service of criminal justice activities. In the context of police interviews, this includes descriptions of mechanisms by which speakers assess moral character (Sacks, 1972) and allocate blame and motive (Watson, 1983; Wowk, 1984). Since then, a steadily growing set of studies has generated insights into interactions in police settings, courtrooms, and other wide-ranging criminal justice contexts, with increasingly varied analytic foci, and more recently, a diversity of languages and geographical locations. Our edited book will present new interactional insights into the conversations that take place and comprise criminal justice systems. It aims to showcase the unique potency and empirical rigour of EMCADP approaches within this context. Specifically, each chapter will provide insights into the mechanics of legal interactions and matters central to legal processes such as culpability, agency, vulnerability, and identity and how they manifest as practical concerns for participants. This volume will expound upon how such matters are built into interaction and fitted to ongoing practices across settings that include emergency calls, investigative police interviews, courtroom interactions, youth justice settings and forensic mental health contexts. The anticipated audience is both academic and professional. We will invite authors to include a reflection on the implications of their research for practitioners in their conclusions. Should you be interested in contributing a chapter drawing upon discursive psychology (DP) and/or ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) in criminal justice settings, please send a 500-word abstract by 30 June 2024 to e.richardson@lboro.ac.uk. We particularly welcome contributions from scholars working in contexts outside of the USA/Western Europe, and/or studies in prison/incarceration and probation settings or psychological interventions. Timeline: 30 June 2024 Abstracts due 6 July 2024 Decisions communicated 30 Nov 2024 Final manuscripts due (around 7,000 words) Apr-Jun 2025 Book published Decisions about inclusion will be taken in collaboration with the series editors. The book will be internationally available through the Springer Link website, available in hard and soft cover and as an e-book. We look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Volume editors Emma Richardson & Laura Jenkins References Atkinson, J. M., & Drew, P. (1979). Order in the Court. Springer. Sacks, H. (1972). Notes on Police Assessment of Moral Character (D. Sudnow, Ed.). Free Press. Watson, D. R. (1983). The presentation of a victim and motive in discourse: The case of police interrogations and interviews. Victimology, 8(1–2), 31–52. Wowk, M. T. (1984). Blame allocation, sex and gender in a murder interrogation. Women’s Studies International Forum, 7(1), 75–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(84)90087-6 + |
| Call for study protocols August 2020 + | We are setting up a hub for written documents on procedures, processes, protocols for conversation analytic studies. The intention is to share knowledge on designing and setting up successful CA studies: http://emcawiki.net/Example_CA_Study_Protocols For the benefit of the international EMCA community, we are especially interested in studies outside of the UK context, where most of our existing materials are based. There will be two options for documents’ accessibility: * '''Access upon request'''. Original authors are contacted to agree or refuse access. The person requesting access will be asked to confirm in writing, that they will not share beyond their research team, and to cite and acknowledge materials. * '''Publicly available online for downloading''' - this is the status of most of the protocols currently listed on the wiki. For 'access on request' materials, we will publish author names, study title, funding, regional and ethical approval details - and will pass on requests for access to other documents to the authors. Please submit written documents relating to successful CA studies (i.e. funded, and/or published, and/or in progress, and/or approved by ethics and other oversight bodies) - Both published and unpublished materials can be submitted. Of interest are: * Study protocols * Documents on recruiting procedures * Documents on consenting procedures * Documents on data collection, transfer, processing, storage * Documents on anonymising data * Documents submitted to institutional ethics committees or governance bodies of participating organisations, including full submissions, participant information sheets, and consent forms. If your protocol does not already include practical issues such as how you did your recordings, how the recruitment and consent processes were organized etc, please also include a description along with your entry. We will include citation details for each document so that authors’ work can be appropriately credited. If you have some materials and/or references you would like added to the wiki, please email admins@emcawiki.net + |
| CfP 17 June 22 Special Issue - Law-in-(inter)action: communicative practices in legal settings + | The connection between law and language has been investigated by a myriad of researchers from different disciplines, using a wide range of methods (see Conley et al. 2019; Coulthard et al. 2021). Language plays a decisive role in constituting the legal universe, as it is through talk- in-interaction that legal professionals (i.e. lawyers, judges, conciliators, mediators, police officers, etc.) perform some of the activities which are most germane to the deliver of justice around the world. However, despite the pervasive nature of language in legal work, research on talk-in-interaction in police and judicial settings is still marginal in the social sciences. This call for papers stems from our desire to promote empirical research in language and law that focuses on examining interactional and discursive practices which are constitutive of law-in- (inter)action. We welcome submissions from those working with audio/video recordings or official transcripts of legal or quasi-legal speech events (e.g. courtroom interactions, police interrogations/interviews, mediation encounters, etc), and employing methodologies from the social sciences and linguistics (e.g. conversation analysis, ethnmethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, lingustic anthropology). In this way, we hope to bring together those studying interactional and discursive practices in legal contexts, who also situate their research findings in broader debates on language and law and/or socio-legal studies. This special issue is guest edited by Fabio Ferraz de Almeida (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and Camila Alves Borges Oliveira (FGV Direito SP, Brazil). All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review following the journal’s standard procedure. Interested authors should submit their manuscripts online, via the journal system: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/index The submission deadline to be considered for this special issue is 17 June 2022, for a tentative publication date of December 2022. For any queries regarding this call, please contact the special issue editors: Fabio Ferraz-de-Almeida or Camila Alves Borges Oliveira. + |
| CfP 2023 International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10) + | '''1st Call for Papers - International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10)''' The Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is pleased to announce the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023. The aim of the ICLC conference series, running since 1998, is to encourage fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC brings together researchers from different linguistic subfields (and neighboring disciplines) to continue the (interdisciplinary) dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community, to discuss the state of the art, and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. Contrastive Linguistics as a linguistic subfield has had a checkered history, but comparative and contrastive work has always been and continues to be an important part of linguistic research. New impulses for comparative and contrastive work include the increasing availability of multilingual corpora or comparative work drawing on naturalistic interaction data. At this anniversary edition of ICLC, we want to provide a stage for the presentation of such new work, and reflect the past, current and future developments of contrastive research in linguistics. '''We invite contributions addressing (meta)theoretical, methodological or empirical issues, such as (but not limited to) the following:''' Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis, including lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as matters such as register and socio-cultural context The state of the art and recent advances in contrastive linguistic research The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistic research The status of contrastive research within linguistic studies and its relationship with neighbouring or complementary approaches such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics The link between contrastive studies and fields of applied linguistics such as foreign language teaching and learning, translation studies and corpus linguistics Potentials and limits of theoretical frameworks in relation to contrastive analysis (e.g., functional, cognitive, interactional, generative, constructional approaches) Theoretical and theoretical-methodological issues (comparability, incommensurability, the socio-cultural context, tertia comparationis, language universals) Empirical and data-related methodological issues (parallel / translation corpora, comparable corpora, learner corpora, multimodal corpora, naturalistic data of face-to-face interaction, psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, surveys) The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and for cross-linguistic generalizations and the development of linguistic theory on the other hand Some of these issues will be addressed by five invited keynote speakers. '''Confirmed keynote speakers are:''' Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Germany) Jenny Audring (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg, Germany, and KU Leuven, Belgium) Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany) Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway) There will be a possibility to publish selected papers in a conference volume. '''Submission of Abstracts''' We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should formulate a clear research question and include a description of the methods, results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. All submissions must be in English, fully anonymous, and no longer than one page (12 point Times New Roman), with up to one additional page for data, figures and references. Abstracts will be submitted via the EasyChair system. Further details on the submission procedure, registration and practical information will be announced in the 2nd call. ''Submission deadline: 16.01.2023'' '''Organizing Committee:''' Beata Trawinski (Chair) Marc Kupietz Kristel Proost Jörg Zinken + |
| CfP 2023 International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10) Second Call for Papers + | 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference 2nd Call for Papers The Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is pleased to announce the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023. The aim of the ICLC conference series, running since 1998, is to encourage fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC brings together researchers from different linguistic subfields (and neighbouring disciplines) to continue the (interdisciplinary) dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community, to discuss the state of the art, and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. Contrastive Linguistics as a linguistic subfield has had a checkered history, but comparative and contrastive work has always been and continues to be an important part of linguistic research. New impulses for comparative and contrastive work include the increasing availability of multilingual corpora or comparative work drawing on naturalistic interaction data. At this anniversary edition of ICLC, we want to provide a stage for the presentation of such new work, and reflect the past, current and future developments of contrastive research in linguistics. We invite contributions addressing (meta)theoretical, methodological or empirical issues, such as (but not limited to) the following: * Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis, including lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as matters such as register and socio-cultural context * The state of the art and recent advances in contrastive linguistic research * The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistic research * The status of contrastive research within linguistic studies and its relationship with neighbouring or complementary approaches such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics * The link between contrastive studies and fields of applied linguistics such as foreign language teaching and learning, translation studies and corpus linguistics * Potentials and limits of theoretical frameworks in relation to contrastive analysis (e.g., functional, cognitive, interactional, generative, constructional approaches) * Theoretical and theoretical-methodological issues (comparability, incommensurability, the socio-cultural context, tertia comparationis, language universals) * Empirical and data-related methodological issues (parallel / translation corpora, comparable corpora, learner corpora, multimodal corpora, naturalistic data of face-to-face interaction, psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, surveys) * The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and for cross-linguistic generalizations and the development of linguistic theory on the other hand Some of these issues will be addressed by five invited keynote speakers. Confirmed keynote speakers are: * Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Germany) * Jenny Audring (Leiden University, The Netherlands) * Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg, Germany, and KU Leuven, Belgium) * Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany) * Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway) The conference will include a poster session. The conference language will be English. Following the conference, all participants will be offered the possibility to submit their contribution for publication in a volume of selected conference papers. Submission of Abstracts We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) or poster presentations. Abstracts should formulate a clear research question and include a description of the methods, results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. All submissions must be in English, fully anonymous, and no longer than one page (12 point Times New Roman), with up to one additional page for data, figures and references. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system through the following submission web page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc10 Submission Procedure: 1. Login at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc10 2. Enter your EasyChair username and password and log in. 3. If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on "create an account" and fill out the form. 4. Click "New Submission" at the top left of the page. 5. By following the instructions, fill out the form. 6. Select topics relevant to your submission from the list of Topic Domains and from the list of Languages. The topics will be used for assigning submissions to reviewers, for compiling the conference program and for conference analytics. Ideally, you select at least one topic from each list. 7. Specify your preferred presentation type: Oral or Poster. Both presentation types are considered to be of equal value. 8. Upload your abstract via "Files", and then submit. 9. After submitting your abstract successfully, you will receive an e-mail from EasyChair that you have successfully submitted your abstract. Important Dates · 16.01.2023: Deadline for abstract submission * 31.03.2023: Notification of acceptance * 14.04.2023: Confirmation of participation * 18.07.2023: Arrival, Registration, Get-together * 19.-21.07.2023: Conference Conference Web Site https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de/ https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de Organizing Committee: Beata Trawinski (Chair) Marc Kupietz Kristel Proost Jörg Zinken + |
| CfP Conversation Analytic Studies on Teaching and Learning Practices: International Perspective + | CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE Conversation Analytic Studies on Teaching and Learning Practices: International Perspectives Special Issue Co-Editors: Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle University Olcay Sert, Hacettepe University Ufuk Balaman, Hacettepe University Published since 1986, Hacettepe University Journal of Education is an open access and fully refereed journal devoted to research in all fields of Education. The journal is published quarterly both in online and in print format. Having published scholarly work from both local and global contexts, the journal is indexed in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Thomson Reuters, Web of Science), and is covered in Google Scholar Metrics. Hacettepe University Journal of Education announces a call for abstracts for its 2018 special topic issue: Conversation Analytic Studies on Teaching and Learning Practices - International Perspectives. The aim of the special issue is to bring together articles from various contexts that use Conversation Analysis to investigate learning and teaching practices. This broad perspective will allow contributions from a wide range of institutional settings where learning is mediated through talk-in-interaction. The scope of the issue, therefore, will include teaching and learning of languages, science, and other subjects and will go beyond teaching and learning practices in traditional classrooms in a way to cover online interaction. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Second Language Acquisition (CA-for-SLA) Teaching and Learning of Science and other subjects Talk-in-interaction in Language, Content, and CLIL classrooms Interactional Competence English (and any other language) as a Medium of Instruction Language Teacher Education Teaching and learning practices in Online Interaction Multimodal interaction in mediated learning environments Multilingual practices in mediated learning environments Epistemics and teaching/learning practices Teaching/Learning of professional communication (e.g. medical interaction) Authors interested in publishing in the special issue should first send a 300-500 word abstract with keywords and bio details. Authors of the selected proposals will then be notified to submit their full length articles. Manuscripts will be subject to anonymous review by a panel of experts. The accepted papers will be given DOI numbers and will be available online ahead of print after the final decision by the referees and the special issue editors. There is no publication fee, and the articles will be available online free-of-charge. Each author will also receive a print copy of the journal. The abstracts and papers should be sent via email attachment to: Olcay Sert and Ufuk Balaman Hacettepe University Emails: sertolcay[at]yahoo.com , ubalaman[at]gmail.com The journal is available online at http://efdergi.hacettepe.edu.tr/homepage.html IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20.02.2017 Submission of full papers: 01.09.2017 Decisions to be sent to authors: 01.11.2017 Submission of revised manuscripts: 01.12.2017 Online publication with DOI numbers: immediately after typesetting Publication of the special issue: The first quarter of 2018 + |
| CfP International Journal of Sport Communication - Special Issue: Social Media and Sport Communication: Reflections & Opportunities - Deadline 15 Jan 2023 + | International Journal of Sport Communication Call for Papers Special Issue: Social Media and Sport Communication: Reflections & Opportunities Publication Issue: 16(3)—September 2023 Guest Editors: Gashaw Abeza, Towson University, and Jimmy Sanderson, Texas Tech University Submission deadline: January 15, 2023 ============================================== In 2012, the International Journal of Sport Communication published a special issue on Twitter and its influence on sport communication/media. At that time, Twitter and other social media platforms were arguably quite nascent in sport, and in the ensuing decade, social media platforms have grown exponentially and become standard operating procedure for sport organizations, athletes, sport media personnel, and sport fans, among others. Additionally, in 2018, another special issue of IJSC was published that examined contemporary issues with social media in sport. As social media has grown and become normalized across diverse sport contexts, it continues to exert considerable force, both positive and negative, for a variety of sport stakeholders. The past decade also has seen a rise in social media and sport scholarship. Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to provide a holistic overview on where sport and social media research has been (reflections) and where it may be headed in the future. Specifically, what has social media and sport scholarship contributed in the past decade+, and what are the implications for sport and social media in coming years? For this special issue on social media, we also welcome papers that examine gaming and virtual-reality platforms. Topics may include, but are not limited to, • The role/influence of social media in sport media • The impact of social media in sport marketing • The impact of social media in organizational decision making (e.g., policy and training) • The impact/influence of specific social media platforms on specific sport stakeholders • The impact/influence of gaming platforms (e.g., Twitch) or virtual-reality platforms • How various sport stakeholders experience/use social media • Social media discourse at the intersection of sport and politics/nationalism • Social media discourse at the intersection of sport and gender/sexuality/race • Social media as a form of surveillance in sport • The commodification of social media in sport • Social media and sport research methods This special issue encourages submissions from a variety of methodological approaches and frameworks. We welcome both empirical studies that analyze data and scholarly commentaries related to the call. We also encourage submissions such as case studies, student research, and industry interviews. We wish to attract scholars from diverse fields and backgrounds. Our overall aim is to position sport and social media scholarship and to help advance future work. '''Deadline for submissions:''' January 15, 2023 '''Publication Issue:''' Volume 16, Issue 3— September 2023 Submissions can be to any of the following sections of the journal: scholarly commentaries, student (with advisor) research articles, full research articles, and case studies. Please reach out to Drs. Gashaw Abeza and Jimmy Sanderson—the guest editors of this special issue—at gabeza@towson.edu and jimmy.sanderson@ttu.edu with any questions regarding the issue. To submit a manuscript, however, please go through the regular submission steps found at the IJSC website (please see link below). In the cover letter to the IJSC editor (Paul M. Pedersen, Ph.D., Indiana University), simply note that the submission is for the Social Media and Sport Communication special issue. '''Submission Guidelines:''' https://bit.ly/3Db9v9F '''IJSC:''' https://bit.ly/3d5DtRT + |
| CfP Making plurilingual/pluricultural education accessible International perspectives TEACUP22 Conference + | '''Making plurilingual/pluricultural education accessible: International perspectives''' Keynotes by: Prof. Ofelia García, The City University of New York Prof. Anthony Liddicoat, University of Warwick Prof. Ricardo Otheguy, The City University of New York Organizing Committee: Prof. M.ª Elena Gómez-Parra, University of Córdoba Dr. Joanna Pfingsthorn, University of Bremen Dr. Tim Giesler, University of Bremen The basic assumption behind plurilingualism is that individual language components are “uneven, differentiated according to the learner’s experience and in an unstable relation as that experience changes” (CEFR 2001: 34). Plurilinguals are assumed to have the ability to call flexibly upon their repertoire and e.g., switch from one language, dialect, or variety to another, call upon the knowledge of several languages (or dialects, or varieties) to make sense of a text or experiment with alternative forms of expression (CEFR Companion Volume 2020: 30). The fluidity with which various language components interact is believed to promote the development of linguistic and cultural awareness, and to contribute to global understanding and acceptance of diversity. It is also interwoven with the concept of pluriculturalism – an approach that perceives individuals as complex beings shaped by multiple cultural experiences and identifications. Yet, with languages (and their cultural contexts) being taught in isolation, compartmentalized institutionalized education often leaves little room for a plurilingual approach. This is problematic as monolingual teaching: a) fails to do justice to the complex reality of learners’ linguistic/cultural repertoires (Blommaert & Backus 2011), and b) creates “limitations in terms both of learning capacity and space in the curriculum” (FREPA 2012: 8). In the European context, this e.g., stands in the way of the Barcelona Summit (2002) “mother tongue + 2” objective. At the same time, there is ample evidence to support the notion that adopting plurilingualism can be a challenge for teachers. As Helot and Ó Laoire (2011, xi) put it: “teachers in the multilingual classroom may continue to underestimate the competence of plurilingual students and to silence their voices, rather than using cross-linguistic learning strategies and learners’ metalinguistic awareness as learning resources across languages and even across school disciplines.” The conference, associated with the project TEACUP (teacup-project.eu), will focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with the adoption of the plurilingual approach and on the measures that could be undertaken to make it more accessible. We welcome empirical, theoretical, and practice-based contributions that address but are not limited to the following questions: What theoretical perspectives need to be reassessed, redefined, discussed, or considered in the pursuit of making plurilingualism more accessible? What promising and/or challenging methods are there to foster various plurilingual competences and learning strategies in a sustainable way? What challenges and opportunities are associated with the affective dimension of plurilingualism? What geopolitical and educational policy factors play or have played a role in a sustainable adoption of the plurilingual approach? What influence do local and national (educational) contexts exert on plurilingualism/pluriculturalism and on the measure undertaken to make the implementation of the plurilingual/pluricultural approach more accessible? The aim of the conference is to engage interested colleagues in fruitful discussions in which they can share their reflections, experiences, perspectives, and insights. Participation is free of charge. '''Conference Formats:''' '''Oral presentation:''' 30 minutes, i.e., 20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion. '''Workshop:''' 30 minutes: practice-oriented sessions with elements of active participation demonstrating tools, methods and/or best practice. Proposals for contributions should be submitted by '''31.05.22''' and contain the following: title of the oral presentation/workshop keywords abstract (400 words) biography (80–100 words) Proposals will be blind reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee. The presenters will receive a note of acceptance by 15.06.22. Selected papers will be published in a peer reviewed compilation (UCOPress, indexed in SPI, and/or Peter Lang). '''References:''' Blommaert, J., & Backus, A. (2011). Repertoires revisited: ‘Knowing language’ in superdiversity. Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies 67, 1–26. Council of Europe (2020). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment – Companion volume, Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, available at www.coe.int/lang-cefr Council of Europe. (2001). Common European framework of reference for languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Cambridge, UK: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. European Centre for Modern Languages. (2012). FREPA: A framework of reference for pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures: competences and resources. Hélot, C. & Ó Laoire, M. (2011). Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom: Pedagogy of the Possible. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847693686 + |
| CfP Special Issue: Examining Question Use in Clinical Contexts with Children and Youth + | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE '''Examining Question Use in Clinical Contexts with Children and Youth''' This co-edited special journal issue will focus on bringing together state-of-the-art scholarship on the interactional function(s) of questions in clinical contexts involving children and adult participants. Sacks (1992) argued that studying questions is critical, as they illuminate imperative information about interactional rights. More specifically, question and answer sequences characterize clinical communication in institutional settings (Hayano, 2012; Lester & O’Reilly, 2021; Tracy & Robles, 2009). Question-response sequences have indeed been well studied in clinical contexts (e.g., Erkelens et al., 2021; Heritage, 2010; Jenkins et al., 2015; Maynard, 1991; O’Reilly et al., 2015; Robinson & Heritage, 2006; Stafford et al., 2016; Stivers & Majid, 2007), with much of this scholarship highlighting how questions used in clinical interviews serve a range of functions, including agenda setting and delivery of diagnostic news. While there is a sizeable body of scholarship around question design generally and in clinical contexts specifically, far less attention has been given to question-response sequences in clinical contexts that involve both children and adults -- contexts wherein the negotiation and navigation of children's membership rights, epistemic status, and competence occurs. As such, this special issue aims to center attention on interactional sequences whereby children and young people are questioned in the presence of adults in clinical settings (e.g., pediatric clinics, primary care, mental health settings). This focus will explore how epistemic rights are invoked by different parties, how questions are designed to be developmentally appropriate, how next speaker selection is managed in situ, how social and interactional competencies are oriented to, and the extent to which child-centered practice is realized in real world clinical settings. The special issue’s targeted publication outlet will be a clinically oriented journal (e.g., Patient Education and Counseling). As such, we strongly encourage clinicians and/or interdisciplinary research teams with a track record of writing for clinical audiences to submit an abstract for consideration. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): ● Questioning practices for child/patient-centered care; ● Question design in family therapy; ● Information elicitation in diagnostic practices; ● Answering more than the question; ● Getting beyond ‘I don’t know’ answers; If interested, please submit a 500-word abstract and 100-word author biography to Jessica Nina Lester (jnlester@iu.edu), Francesca Williamson (frawhite@iu.edu), and Michelle O’Reilly (mjo14@leicester.ac.uk) by August 25, 2022. The editorial team will review abstracts and invite selected authors by September 30, 2022. Full manuscripts will not be due until mid-2023. '''References''' Erkelens, D. C., van Charldorp, T. C., Vinck, V. V., Wouters, L. T., Damoiseaux, R. A., Rutten, F. H., ... & de Groot, E. (2021). Interactional implications of either/or-questions during telephone triage of callers with chest discomfort in out-of-hours primary care: A conversation analysis. Patient Education and Counseling, 104(2), 308-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.07.011 Hayano, K. (2012). Question design in conversation. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.), The handbook of conversation analysis (pp. 395-414). Wiley-Blackwell. Jenkins, L., Cosgrove, J., Ekberg, K., Kheder, A., Sokhi, D., & Reuber, M. (2015). A brief conversation analytic communication intervention can change history-taking in the seizure clinic. Epilepsy & Behavior, 52, 62-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.08.022 Lester, J.N., & O’Reilly, M. (2021). Communication, mental health, and how language-based research can help in practice. In O’Reilly, M., & Lester, J.N., (Eds.). Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research. London: Routledge O’Reilly, M., Karim, K., & Kiyimba, N. (2015). Question use in child mental health assessments and the challenges of listening to families. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 1(2), 116-120 Robinson, J., & Heritage, J. (2006). Physicians’ opening questions and patient’s satisfaction. Patient Education and Counseling, 60, 279-285. Sacks, H. (1992) Lectures on Conversation, Vol. 2, ed. G. Jefferson, with introduction by E.A. Schegloff. Oxford: Blackwell. Stafford, V., Hutchby, I., Karim, K., & O’Reilly, M. (2016). “Why are you here?” Seeking children’s accounts of their presentation to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 21(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104514543957 Stivers, T., & Majid, A. (2007). Questioning children: Interactional evidence of implicit bias in medical interviews. Social Psychology Quarterly, 70(4), 424-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/019027250707000410 Tracy, K. & Robles, J. (2009). Questions, questioning, and institutional practices: An introduction. Discourse Studies, 11(2), 131-152. + |
| CfP: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Interaction in a triadic setting (Special Issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics) + | Call for Papers Special Issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics: "Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Interaction in a triadic setting" Guest Editors: Claudio Scarvaglieri (Lausanne University), Anna Wamprechtshammer (University of Hamburg), Peter Muntigl (Ghent University) Description The growing linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe has brought interpreter-mediated psychotherapy (IMP) to the forefront of clinical practice. Interpreters play a crucial role in enabling communication between therapists and patients who do not share a common language – a practice that is gaining in societal relevance but remains under-investigated from a scientific standpoint. Because the presence of an interpreter transforms the traditional therapist-patient dyad into a triadic conversational framework, there are considerable implications for how therapeutic relationships are formed, maintained, and negotiated and for the process and outcome of therapy. This special issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics aims to deepen our understanding of the communicative, linguistic, and relational dynamics in IMP. We invite contributions that explore how language, discourse, and interaction shape therapeutic processes and outcomes in multilingual settings. We particularly welcome submissions that investigate the co-construction and (interactional) accomplishment of the therapeutic relationship, trust, empathy, communicative ruptures and repairs, and the role of interpreters as relational, cultural and linguistic brokers of interaction in therapy. Comparative studies with monolingual psychotherapeutic interactions are also possible, if they include data from IMP. ________________________________________ Possible Topics Submissions may address (but are not limited to) the following themes: • Linguistic and discursive dimensions of IMP • Trust, empathy, and alliance in IMP • Communicative ruptures and repair mechanisms in IMP • The interpreter’s role as a co-constructor of the therapeutic relationship • Ethical and practical implications of interpreter involvement in therapy • Comparative studies between monolingual and interpreter-mediated sessions • In-person vs. online IMP We encourage empirical, data-based studies drawing on fields such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis, translation/interpreting studies, psychotherapy research, or applied linguistics. ________________________________________ Submission Guidelines • Abstract submission deadline: 10. 11. 2025 • Full paper submission deadline: 31. 3. 2026 • Expected publication: January 2027 Each submission will undergo double-blind peer review. ________________________________________ Contact For inquiries about the special issue, please contact: • Claudio Scarvaglieri, Lausanne University, claudio.scarvaglieri@unil.ch • Anna Wamprechtshammer, University of Hamburg, anna.wamprechtshammer@uni-hamburg.de • Peter Muntigl, Ghent University, Peter.muntigl@ugent.be ________________________________________ Background This special issue builds upon recent collaborative research, including the project “Interpreting in Psychotherapy: Process and Outcome, Interaction and Perception”, and follows ongoing discussions presented at COMET 2025. It aims to foster dialogue among linguists, translation scholars, and psychologists to better understand and enhance interpreter-mediated therapeutic practice. + |
| ChICaS-Conference-2025 + | ChICaS Project - PRIN22 / Final conference - Children’s Interactional Competence at School: Conversational Social Norms, Forms of participation and Language Structures To join the seminar online, contact piera.margutti@unimore.it 11 December 2025 - 10.00-18.00 Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali • Aula B0.6 Largo S. Eufemia, 19 - Modena 10.00: Piera Margutti, Introduction 10.15: Invited speaker: Myrte N.Gosen (University of Groningen) Let the students do the talking. Insights in offering room for the enhancement of students’ interactional competence 11.00: Coffee break 11.30: Piera Margutti, Daniele Urlotti, Elisa Rossi (Modena Unit) Responding beyond the informative content: pupils conforming their answers to the expectation of teacher questions 12.00: Rosa Pugliese, Alessandro D’Altoè, Vittoria Colla (Bologna Unit) Being relevant in classroom interaction 12.30 Lunch break 14.30: Invited speaker: Nicola Nasi (University of Bologna) Children’s peer languages and cultures. On learning, agency, and diversity at school 15.15: Elisa De Roberto, Sabrina Rizzello (RomaTre Unit) Style shifting in small group interaction 15.45: Daniela Veronesi, Monica Simone (Bolzano Unit) What does it mean to work as a team? Negotiating interactional roles and opportunities for participation in primary school children’s peer interaction 16.15: Coffee break 16.45: Discussants Letizia Caronia (University of Bologna) Alessandra Fasulo (University of Portsmouth) Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Il seminario è aperto a tutti gli interessati, ricercatori, dottorandi e studenti dei corsi di laurea magistrale. Sarà attivo un collegamento on line. Per informazioni, scrivere a: piera.margutti@unimore.it + |
| Co-animation and association in English Interaction: jointly ‘doing being’ others to interactionally define joint selves - A Presentation by Dr. Marina N. Cantarutti + | Date: 22nd October 2020 Time: 2.30pm-4.00pm (BST;UK time) Place: Zoom. To receive joining instructions, please email Merran Toerien: merran.toerien@york.ac.uk Abstract This presentation will review the findings (and many remaining questions) of my doctoral research on the interactional practice I have called co-animation, i.e. the joint voicing, or (re-)enactment of the same figure in adjacent sequential positions (cfr. Niemelä 2011; Guardiola & Bertrand, 2013; Mathis & Yule, 1994). I have found that during the development of particular social activities - namely, troubles-tellings and indirect complaint stories on the one hand, and teasing and mockery episodes on the other- a participant’s first animation is often completed or continued in responsive position by the co-participant. Drawing on the theoretical and methodological insights of Conversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson, 1974) and multimodal approaches to Interactional Linguistics (Couper-Kuhlen & Selting, 2001), I will discuss my description of the multimodal and sequential organisation of co-animation based on 89 cases identified in 10 hours of video-recordings of naturalistic English interaction between friends, relatives, and co-workers. I will focus on the defining characteristics of the practice, as well as on some of the relational consequences of the situated deployment of the practice, specifically the display of association (Lerner, 1993). During the presentation I will address two aspects of co-animation: a) How co-participants multimodally design their responsive turns in a way that they are seen and heard as coherent with prior animations, and at the same time, as fitted affiliative responses that collaboratively further an ongoing course of action, making it a joint endeavour. b) How participants deploy (co-)animation at particular points in the development of specific social activities to deal with (emerging) moral matters, thus interactionally defining what constitutes a shared stance, values, and identity, and teaming up against absent but invoked transgressive behaviours or parties. Marina Noelia Cantarutti is an interactional linguist currently working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University. She has recently completed her PhD in Language and Communication at the University of York, UK. She holds over a decade of experience in EFL teacher training and lecturing in Practical Phonetics and Discourse Analysis in various Higher Education institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is particularly interested in the study of phonetics and gesture as resources deployed and oriented to by participants in everyday talk-in-interaction, especially in collaborative practices, and for the creation of collective identities. + |
| Communication in Medical and Healthcare Interactions 3-5 June 2019 + | Communication in Medical and Healthcare Interactions 3-5 June 2019 Merran Toerien, Clare Jackson, Kat Connabee, and Paul Drew, We are offering a short course in researching medical and healthcare interactions, hosted and organized by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication at the University of York. The course is designed to benePit those beginning or in the early stages of research into med- ical, clinical and healthcare interactions; it will also be relevant for healthcare professionals interested in communication. The programme will include lectures on a range of integrated topics, directed exercises, as well as practical hands-on sessions giving participants experience in analyzing data, using the perspective and methods of Conversation Analysis (CA). Practical sessions will therefore be focused on applying CA’s methodology, not only in the detailed analysis of particular medical/health care interactions but also in working on collections of significant patterns to be found in medical interactions, as well as coding and statistical analysis of these patterns. The data used throughout will be real-life, authentic medical interactions – based on the considerable experience each of us has had working in a range of divers medical settings (these include primary care, oncology, neurology, seizure clinics, memory clinics, maternity units, medical helplines). Our research has focused on aspects of the effectiveness of communication, on patient-centred medicine and patient choice, the role of communication in diagnosis, etc. We will draw on our own datasets and research findings across the practical elements of this workshop. Our aim is to assist participants in developing research skills, through enhancing their under- standing of CA’s methodology, and their ability to apply CA in their investigations of medical inter- actions. Prior experience of CA will be a real advantage, but is not a pre-requisite, for this work- shop. While it is not possible to learn CA from scratch in just three days, the workshop is intended to equip participants with practical analytic skills, which should be applicable to their own future work. We hope that the workshop will further inspire participants in their research. The number of participants will be restricted to 15, in order to ensure that there is ample opportunity for all to participate in the practical sessions. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration The cost of the course is £380 for salaried researchers and faculty or £280 for postgraduate students. This includes course materials, a Certificate of Attendance, lunches, tea and coffee for the three days, and one dinner together on the evening before the final day. It does not include accommodation, which can be found on campus or in local hotels. The University of York offers bed and breakfast accommodation on campus at reasonable rates. This can be booked online at https://yorkconferences.com/. Information about accommodations in York city centre, which is 15 minutes from campus, can be found at https://www.visityork.org/ sleep. The course will commence at 10:00 on Monday 3 June and finish at approximately 16:00 on Wednesday 5 June. Details of the programme will be circulated at a later date. The deadline for registration is the 15 May 2019. To register for the course, or for inquiries and further information, please contact Paul Drew (paul.drew@york.ac.uk). Course tutors Merran Toerien is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology. She has expertise in the application of conversation analysis to communication in institutional settings, with a particular interest in patient choice. She has extensive experience of teaching CA at undergraduate and graduate levels, and has run workshops in South Africa, China, the Netherlands and the UK. Clare Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology. Her research covers both basic CA – particularly practices for referring to persons – and applied CA – particularly feminist issues and healthcare. She is currently working on an NIHR funded project examining decisional practices between women, birth partners and practitioners in midwifery-led intrapartum care. Kat Connabeer is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Birmingham City University. Her doctoral research focused on medical interactions in primary care consultations, with a particular interest in how health professionals deliver lifestyle recommendations. She is currently involved in a project combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, to examine decision making in neonatal intensive care interactions. Paul Drew, a Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, has considerable experience of teaching CA at introductory and advanced levels, both in conventional courses and through workshops, worldwide. His current research includes projects on recruitment of assistance (with Kobin Kendrick), self-correction and normativity, and on medical interactions in neonatology, and telephone delivery + |
| Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions 2023 + | “Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions” (CDPI) is a hybrid international conference organised by the research group linkage team on the project “Interactive Dynamics and Contexts of Nigerian and German Doctor-Patient-Encounters” (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) to be hosted at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and in the virtual space, from 3rd to 5th of October 2023. Within Conversation Analysis (CA) and Linguistic Pragmatics, the investigation of doctor-patient interactions has become one of the most dominant branches of research and “has expanded to include interactions in a variety of specialty care settings as well as in allied fields such as pharmacy and dentistry” (Teas Gill & Roberts 2013: 575). While studies in Medical CA (e.g., Heritage 2017, Fatigante, et al. 2020) or Medical Pragmatics (e.g., Odebunmi 2021) usually include – at least implicitly – a comparative perspective in the way that they relate their own results to previous findings in corresponding or similar interaction types, only few studies have explicitly compared conversational phenomena across data sets originating from different linguistic/cultural/national contexts until now. Exceptions are e.g. the studies by Bergen, et al. (2018) and Boluwaduro & Groß (2019). The former investigates differences between US American and British interactions with regards to the manifestation of patients’ resistance against treatment recommendation showing that distinct behavioural trends may reflect distinct cultural norms of good-practices. Boluwaduro & Groß (2019) compare the conversational impact of the “How are you (doing)” opening question in Nigerian and German HIV consultations and conversely show that one identical practice might have distinct conversational consequences and thus contextualise distinct norms. In order to shift the attention to this promising research area we call for contributions that explicitly take a comparative perspective on doctor-patient interactions within Medical Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Health Communication. We look forward to proposals that explore doctor-patient interactions focusing on interactional phenomena from a comparative view in the sense that they compare linguistic choices, conversational practices and actions within the same interaction type (such as HIV consultations, first consultations at the general practitioner etc.) in different linguistic/cultural/national contexts. Comparative investigations may also be triggered by emphasising the contextualization of social factors like gender, social class and educational background, the role of interpreter-mediation in multilingual interactions compared to monolingual interactions, as well as the relevance of the medical setting (in vs. out patient etc.). We welcome contributions which relate their analyses to theoretical concepts of health science, such as paternalism/humanism, shared decision making, informed choice (e.g., Albus & Koerfer 2015), asymmetry (e.g., Pilnick & Dingwall 2011), subjective illness theories (e.g., Birkner & Vlassenko 2015) or to pragmatic theories, including face theories (e.g., Arundale 2020; Goffman 1967), politeness theories (Locher & Watts 2015; Kadar & Haugh 2013; Brown & Levinson 1978, identity theories (e.g., Simon 2004), common ground theories (e.g., Clark & Brennan 1991; Kecskes & Zhang 2009) etc. Abstracts (max. 350 words, plus references) should clearly indicate the objective(s), methodology and results of the study. Presentations will typically be scheduled in sessions of 30 minutes allocated to each individual presentation. We also plan a poster session conducted in the virtual space. Submissions should be sent to the conference committee via email at CDPI@uni-bayreuth.de, and should include information whether they are meant for an oral presentation or a poster. Conference committee: Tosin Adeyehun (University of Ibadan/Nigeria), Oluwaseun Amusa (University of Ibadan/Nigeria), Alexandra Groß (University of Bayreuth/Germany), Ahmad Izadi (University of Bayreuth/Germany and Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran.) Important information: ● Conference venue: Hybrid meeting, hosted at the University of Bayreuth and in the virtual space (via zoom) ● Conference dates: from 3rd to 5th of October 2023 ● Deadline for abstract submission: 31th May 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2023 ● Conference language: English ● Registration fee: None (The conference is funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) References: Arundale, R. (2020). Communicating and relating: Constituting face in everyday interacting. Oxford University Press. Bergen, C., Stivers, T., Barnes, R. K., Heritage, J., McCabe, R., Thompson, L., & Toerien, M. (2018). Closing the Deal: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Treatment Resistance. In: Health Communication 33(11), 1377-1388. Birkner, K., & Vlassenko, I. (2015). Subjektive Theorien zu Krankheit und Gesundheit. In A. Busch, & T. Spranz-Fogasy (eds.). Handbuch Sprache und Medizin, de Gruyter, 137-155. Boluwaduro, E., Groß, A. (2019). "How are you doing?" - "Great!" : Negotiating mundane, medical and moral dimensions of patients' wellbeing in opening sequences of German and Nigerian HIV consultations. In: A. Groß, R. Pech, I. Vlassenko (eds.): HIV/AIDS : Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. LIT, 43-76. Brown, P., & Levinson, S.C. (1978). Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge University Press. Clark, H. & Brennan, S. (1991). Grounding in communication. In: L. Resnick, J. Levine, and S. Teasley (eds.). Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. American Psychological Association. 127–149. Fatigante, M., Heritage, J., Alby, F., Zucchermaglio, C. (2020). Presenting treatment options in breast cancer consultations: Advice and consent in Italian medical care. In: Social Science & Medicine 266, 113175. Heritage, J. (2017). Online Commentary in Primary Care and Emergency Room Settings. In: Acute Medicine & Surgery 4, 12-18. Kádár, D. & Haugh, M. (2013). Understanding politeness. Cambridge University Press. Kecskes, I., & Zhang, W. (2009). Activating, seeking and creating common ground- a sociocognitive approach. In: Pragmatics & Cognition 17.2. Koerfer A, Albus C (2015). Dialogische Entscheidungsfindung zwischen Arzt und Patient. In: A. Busch, T. Spranz-Fogasy (eds.). Handbuch Sprache in der Medizin. De Gruyter, 116-153. Locher, M. & Watts. R. (2005). Politeness theory and relational work. In: Journal of Politeness: Language, Behavior, Culture, 1, 9-33. Pilnick, A. & Dingwall, R. (2011). On the remarkable persistence of asymmetry in doctor/patient interaction: A critical review. In: Social Science and Medicine 72(8), 1374-82. Odebunmi, A. (2021). Negotiating patients’ therapy proposals in paternalistic and humanistic clinics. In: Pragmatics 31(3), 430–454. Simon, B. (2004): Identity in modern society: A social psychological perspective. Blackwell. Teas Gill, V., Roberts, F. (2013). Conversation Analysis in Medicine. In: J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (eds.). Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Wiley-Blackwell, 575-592. + |
