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| Job: Human-Technology Interaction and Assistance - University of Duisburg-Essen 2023 + | Know. Employee:in (f/m/d, No. 617-23) - Human-Technology Interaction & Assistance EG 13 TV-L The Institute for Communication Studies at the UDE is part of the Faculty of Humanities, which is one of the largest faculties at the UDE with over 300 employees. The focus of the subject is an understanding of 'communication' as a complex form of social practice - the understanding of which includes situation-specific processes, their multimodal constitution, their embeddedness in social and institutional problem contexts as well as digital implementation conditions - which is researched both empirically and theoretically. In this context, the department of “Multimodal Communication, Social Interaction & Technology” has a modern research infrastructure with a laboratory on mobile eye tracking and is integrated into various institutional and international collaborations. * Time of occupation: Start: 2023-11-01 * Contract duration: 3 years * working hours: 39 hrs 50 mins (100%) Your main tasks You will carry out research tasks on the topic of 'Human-Technology Interaction & Assistance' as part of the “Center for Assistive Technologies Rhine-Ruhr” project and thus contribute to the orientation and development of the interdisciplinary center of the same name. You research communicative-interactive methods of support in everyday contexts and contribute to the conceptualization of assistance (systems) as well as to the development of interdisciplinary evaluation protocols for human-technology interaction. You will have the opportunity to carry out (also independently) interdisciplinary studies on human-technology interaction in an everyday context and to use modern tools for the creation and management of data corpora, create sustainably usable resources for interdisciplinary, participatory research and development processes and be in direct contact Contact with external stakeholders of a larger practice network. your profile Above-average university degree in linguistics, communication science, German studies or similar. of at least 8 semesters standard period of study as well as a completed doctorate in one of these subjects Solid knowledge of interaction linguistics (especially conversation analysis) research methods and previous scientific experience in the collection, preparation, transcription/annotation and evaluation of data from multimodal face-to-face interaction are required. Previous scientific experience in the area of human-technology interaction and/or assistance, in corpus linguistic approaches, and/or an affinity for combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods is desirable. Ability to work in a team in an interdisciplinary environment, organizational talent, a goal-oriented, structured and independent way of working as well as secure language skills (oral/written) in German and English. Expect a varied, versatile area of responsibility in a lively work area and research-intensive, interdisciplinary environment with contact to stakeholders from business and social institutions integration into a committed, dynamic and interdisciplinary team with international exchange Flexible arrangements for working hours and the possibility of working from home Family-friendliness through care offers for your children and advice on your care tasks Further education and training offers very good public transport connections and free parking spaces Sports and health offers (university sports) application time 2023-09-28 Code number 617-23 Application Please send your application with the usual documents to Prof. Dr. med. using reference number 617-23. Karola Pitsch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Humanities / Institute of Communication Studies, 45117 Essen, email: ina.schlaefke@uni-due.de . Information about the position The position will be filled subject to the availability of third-party funding. + |
| July 2023 Start - Nanyang University Singapore - Tenure Track Assistant Professor + | '''School of Humanities''' '''Nanyang Technological University, Singapore''' '''Linguistics and Multilingual Studies''' The School of Humanities invites outstanding academics to apply for a tenure-track position in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor. Successful candidates must have a PhD in Linguistics at time of appointment. The successful candidate is expected to specialize in the area of semantics and pragmatics. The candidate will demonstrate theoretical expertise, and have methodological experience (e.g., corpus-based, experimental, or fieldwork) expertise in addressing relevant issues in linguistic meaning, and/or meaning in context. The candidate should also have a secondary specialization in another subfield, preferably corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, or psycholinguistics. The candidate must present a proven track record of research excellence and a continuing research agenda that includes collaboration with other academics in these areas. The candidate is expected to teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses not only in Semantics and Pragmatics, but also courses in other general areas of linguistics, and courses in the candidate’s subfield. The teaching load is typically 2/2, and we expect this appointment to begin in July 2023. '''Emoluments''' Salary is competitive and will commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package. '''Application Procedure''' The closing date for applications is 31 October 2022. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. Applicants are invited to submit their applications (cover letter, CV, research and teaching statements, and Google Scholar citation report if available) through the NTU career portal https://bit.ly/3QyRlBL Enquiries about the position may be addressed to: Chair, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Search Committee Email: lms-search@ntu.edu.sg + |
| Junior SNSF researcher - interdisciplinary project on AI 2026 + | 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 + |
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| King's College London Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Work, Interaction and Technology 2021 + | Contact Details Professor Jon Hindmarsh, Head of Group, Public Services Management & Organisation , jon.hindmarsh@kcl.ac.uk Application Deadline: 07-Mar-2021 Job Description King’s Business School is the ninth and newest faculty at King’s College London, emerging out of the renowned School of Management & Business. We are looking to recruit an outstanding candidate, with an interest in Work, Interaction & Technology to join the Public Services Management & Organisation Group. Within the School, there are presently 140 academic staff and a full range of undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes. As such we are going through an exciting development phase and are looking for high quality people to join our growing team. The School places a premium on international levels of scholarship and research excellence, and you will be expected to play a role in the standing and development of the Group in this regard. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to high quality research and will be able to contribute excellent teaching to the development of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. You should hold a PhD in a relevant field, have a high-quality track record of publications in leading refereed journals and in securing research income. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates as they are currently under-represented within the faculty at this level. This is a full time indefinite post. Key Responsibilities To take a role in the planning, organisation and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. To undertake high-quality research in the subject area, to publish the findings in highly rated internationally recognised journals and to participate in the major internationally recognised academic networks. To carry out a range of academic management duties as requested by the Executive Dean. Sustain high-quality research activity through a portfolio of individual and/or joint research projects and to secure the funding required for this research as required. Supervise postgraduate research students and/or research staff and to provide mentoring support to junior colleagues. Attend meetings and conferences to present research findings and thereby enhance the national and international standing of the School. Take responsibility for the planning, organisation and delivery of both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching activities within the School. Develop and use a variety of methods to assess student learning and provide feedback that is timely, relevant and appropriate. Underdertake any other reasonable duties that may be required by the Head of Group. The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. + |
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| LANSI 2020 + | UPDATE: Dear Colleagues: After receiving multiple inquiries regarding whether we would consider a remote conference this year given COVID-19, our organizing committee has reached the difficult decision early this morning that a zoom conference would be the antithesis of LANSI's trademark of enabling deep conversations in an intimate environment. Our plan, instead, is to postpone the conference till late May 2021 (specific dates TBA: mostly likely 22-23 or 28-29). With that, we would also extend the deadline for our CfP to Dec. 31, 2020--the final day of this very, very unusual year . We hope we're making the right call, and we're hopeful that this will be a conference worth waiting for. It's our 10th anniversary after all.🎈 Till we see each other again--in our full dimensions, Hansun ———— The 10th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group(LANSI) Teachers College, Columbia University New York City October 9-10 (Fri & Sat), 2020 INVITED LECTURES by Douglas Maynard, Marjorie Goodwin, and Adam Hodges WORKSHOPS with Alexa Hepburn and Galina Bolden PANEL DISCUSSION with Bolden, Goodwin, Hepburn, Hodges, and Maynard 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 dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include descriptions of the following aspects of the study: (1) problem(s) being addressed; (2) central claim(s); (3) data source(s) and analytic approach(es); (4) a short piece of data to support the main argument; (5) implication(s) of the findings. 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 15-minute slot with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Deadline for electronic submission is June 1, 2020. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by July 15, 2020. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi. Conference Co-chairs Hansun Waring, Carol Lo, Lauren Carpenter, and Allie King lansi@tc.edu + |
| LANSI 2023 + | The 11th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) Teachers College, Columbia University New York City October 13-14 (Fri & Sat), 2023 INVITED SPEAKERS Tanya Stivers, UCLA; Steven Talmy, The University of British Columbia 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 dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation 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. Alternatively, you may now submit a link (e.g., Google or Dropbox) to a single, 2-3 min, audio-narrated PPT slide that displays one data extract and addresses (1)-(3) above. Please also include a 50-word summary regardless of your mode of submission. 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, 2023. Notification of acceptance or otherwise will be sent via email by early July, 2023. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi. Conference Co-chairs Hansun Zhang Waring Allie King Lauren Carpenter Kelly Frantz lansi@tc.edu + |
| LANSI 2025 + | We are delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for our 13th LANSI conference! The 13th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) Teachers College, Columbia University New York City October 10-11 (Fri & Sat), 2025 INVITED SPEAKERS *Susan Ehrlich, York University *Galina Bolden, Rutgers University 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 dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation 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, 2025. Notification of acceptance or otherwise will be sent via email by mid July, 2025. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi Conference Co-chairs: Hansun Zhang Waring Kelly Frantz Alyson (Lal) Horan Mark Romig lansi at tc.edu + |
| LANSI Advanced Studies Virtual Workshop - Fox and Gubina on Grammar and Interaction (Fri, Feb 11) 2022 + | Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce that our next LANSI Advanced Studies Virtual Workshop, "Grammar and Interaction: Exploring Offers of Assistance/Contribution," will be facilitated by Barbara Fox from University of Colorado Boulder and Alexandra Gubina from University of Mannheim. This limited-space, hands-on virtual workshop is designed for participants with an existing background in conversation analysis. There will be approximately 5 hours of pre-workshop assignments. Should you register for the workshop, you will receive an email confirming your successful registration or waitlist status. Given the limited space, we ask that you only sign up if you are certain of your participation and inform us ASAP if you are unable to attend after receiving the confirmation email. Note that the workshop will be recorded for internal use only. Please see below for the abstract and speakers' bios for the workshop as well as a link to registration. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Sincerely, Carol Lo President of LANSI Grammar and Interaction: Exploring Offers of Assistance/Contribution Barbara Fox University of Colorado Boulder Alexandra Gubina University of Mannheim Friday, February 11, 9:00 am -12:00 pm EST via Zoom Register HERE https://bit.ly/3J7HBeJ Abstract: This workshop offers advanced training in the study of grammar and interaction. Using a corpus of video-recorded joint activities in American English, collected during the early months of the pandemic, we will focus on refinements in: skills of multi-modal analysis using video-taped interactions, developing new and interesting research questions, building collections, grounding analytical claims in evidence in the data, and formulating enticing research findings. For the purposes of the workshop, we will take as our case study the grammatical resources used in the data for offering to do some practical action within the activity the participants are involved in. Pre-homework for the workshop will involve looking through transcripts and video-recordings from the corpus to identify which kinds of grammatical practices are used in the data and what kinds of distinct types of offers they might be used to implement. Participants will bring those initial observations to the workshop and we will explore them in greater detail, with an eye to refining research skills in studying how social actions are shaped by, and shape, grammatical practices in talk-in-interaction. Speakers' Bios: Barbara Fox is Professor Emerita Barbara Fox is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been exploring the complex relationships among grammar and interaction for the last 40 years, and has published studies on a wide range of topics in that area. Her recent work includes studies of request formulation at a shoe repair shop (with Trine Heinemann), the uses of ‘should I’ and ‘do you want me to’ in joint activities (with Alexandra Gubina and Chase Raymond), and formats for proposals for joint actions (with Sandra Thompson and Chase Raymond). Alexandra Gubina is an early career scholar, having submitted her dissertation and about to embark on a postdoc at the Pragmatics Department at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language at the University of Mannheim, Germany. In her research, she uses multimodal Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics to examine how specific grammatical practices are deployed in the service of accomplishing social actions in talk-in-interaction. Her main interest lies in the action formation of recruitment-related actions, as well as multifunctionality and action ascription in the case of grammatical formats typically associated with such actions. + |
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| LANSI2018 + | '''The 8th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI)''' * Teachers College, Columbia University * New York City * October 12-13 (Fri & Sat), 2018 '''INVITED SPEAKERS''' * Rebecca Clift (University of Essex) * Srikant Sarangi (Cardiff University) 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 dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include descriptions of the following aspects of the study: (1) problem(s) being addressed; (2) central claim(s); (3) data source(s) and analytic approach(es); (4) a short piece of data to support the main argument; (5) implication(s) of the findings. 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 15 or 20-minute slot with an additional 10 or 5 minutes for discussion. Deadline for electronic submission is **May 31, 2018**. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by July 15, 2018. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi '''Conference Co-chairs''' * Hansun Zhang Waring * Di Yu * Carol Lo * Allie King + |
| LANSI2026 + | 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, + |
| LISO Data Session Friday Feb 10th 2023 at UC Santa Barbara + | Dear friends of LISO, The next meeting of Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) will be a data session, held next Friday (one week from today). The meeting will be in-person only. Sabrina Sun & Ryan Ka Yau Lai "Analyzing and visualizing turns and backchannels in a multi-party conversation” Date: February 10 Time: 1:30-3:30 Location: Education 1205 (in person). All are welcome to attend. Bring a friend! + |
| LISO conference 2017 + | 23rd Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Theme: “Studying Interaction, Advancing Social Justice: Identities, Ideologies, and Inequalities” Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20, 2017 University of California, Santa Barbara Featured Plenary Speakers: * Patricia Baquedano-López, Education, UC Berkeley * Tanya Stivers, Sociology, UCLA Presented by: * Language, Interaction and Social Organization Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Santa Barbara (LISO-GSA UCSB) * The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles (CLIC UCLA) The LISO Conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The papers primarily employ analysis of naturally occurring data drawing from methodologies that include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, and interactional sociolinguistics. Theme: “Encounter and Interface” The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The papers primarily employ analysis of naturally occurring data drawing from methodologies that include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, and interactional sociolinguistics. The conference theme this year is “Encounter and Interface”. “Encounter” and “interface” here are both broadly defined and inextricably connected. Encounters, ranging from interactions between individual speakers to the intermingling of distinct linguistic and cultural systems, now occur through various contexts, both face-to-face and digitally-mediated. How are the ideological underpinnings of these encounters manifested and re-shaped in everyday interaction? How is online language and culture shaping– and being shaped by – the norms of face-to-face communication? Presentations related to the conference theme may include but are not limited to: * blending of communicative interfaces (e.g., how is online interaction talked about in face-to-face conversation, or vice versa?) * reciprocal influences between types of literacy (e.g., digital, classroom, etc.) * the influence of technology on student agency in the classroom and at home * how social media challenges traditional understandings of interaction * technology as a language-learning resource * the role of embodiment in interaction (face-to-face and online) * interaction in virtual worlds * construction(s) of identity through online and face-to-face interaction * socialization into new cultural and linguistic systems * examinations of how interaction and language in use reveal power dynamics between speakers of varying genders, sexualities, and * abilities, or ethnoracial, class, national, and linguistic backgrounds Although submissions based on the conference theme will be particularly welcome, innovative work on all aspects of language and interaction will be considered. We welcome abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty working in the areas of Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Communication, Digital Humanities, Education, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Internet Studies, Literacy Studies, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Abstracts must be submitted via email to lisoconference@gmail.com. Author information, affiliation, and contact information should be submitted in the body of the email only, with abstract attachments made completely anonymous. Please include in your abstract document the title of your poster or presentation and your preference for poster or presentation session. If you have a format preference but would like to be considered for both, please indicate that clearly. Presenters will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be displayed during a one-hour poster session. Abstracts must be submitted in .doc, .docx, or .pdf, format only. Abstracts must be no more than 500 words long and should not include the author's name or any other identifying information. The abstract should include the following: (1) a clear statement of the main point or argument of the paper; (2) a brief discussion of the problem or research question with reference to previous research and the work's relevance to the area of study; (3) a short piece of data to support the main point or argument; (4) conclusions and/or implications of the research, however tentative. If your presentation relies on a visual representation of data (e.g., video data or screenshots of Internet data), up to three images may be included in your abstract as contributing data samples. In the case of an abstract longer than 500 words, only the first 500 words will be read. Papers will be selected based on evaluation of the anonymous abstract. Abstract submission opens on November 1, 2016. Deadline for electronic submission and receipt of abstracts is January 13, 2017. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email in early February 2017. Questions can be sent to: LISOconference@gmail.com + |
| LISO talk - Chase Raymond Friday 1st February + | Friday, February 1, 2019 1:30-3:30pm Education 1205 “Category Accounts: Identity and Normativity in Sequences of Action” Chase Wesley Raymond Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder This study investigates the sequentially occasioned provision of what I term ‘category accounts’ in interaction. Category accounts tap into and make use of normative assumptions about identities and membership categories in order to explain away moments of what the participants view as category deviance. To introduce this concept, I focus on sequences in which speakers’ initiations of repair (e.g., Huh?) are oriented to as indicative of a problem of understanding. In the cases examined here, recipients of such initiations of repair treat divergence from some gender/sexuality norm as the source of the misunderstanding, which is revealed through their attempt to resolve the trouble by providing a category account, thereby closing the repair sequence and providing for the resumption of progressivity. These and similar accounting sequences are thus a means through which participants collaboratively normalize momentary departures from normativity, while at the same time reconstituting what exactly constitutes ‘normativity’ and ‘departures therefrom’, and for whom. Chase Wesley Raymond holds PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics (2014) and Sociology (2016), both from UCLA, and is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests lie at the intersection of language and (different facets of) social identity and normativity, in both ordinary and institutional interaction. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles in Language, Research on Language & Social Interaction, Language in Society, and the Journal of Sociolinguistics. + |
| LISO talk 2021-05-14- Albert J. Meehan and AnnMarie Dennis + | * Friday, May 14, 2021 * 1:30-3:30pm * email lisoinfo@soc.ucsb.edu for a zoom link & future events. “‘In Situ’ Assessments of Officer’s Accounts of ‘What Happened’ in Police-Involved Shootings” Albert J. Meehan and AnnMarie Dennis (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, University of Oakland) Abstract: This paper uses Conversation Analysis (CA) to analyze officer-officer talk in the immediate aftermath of a fatal shooting using transcripts of body-worn camera (BWC) videos drawn from the Washington Post (WAPO) database of police shootings. We focus on the account production process in-situ, in its earliest interactional genesis by analyzing officer’s conversations and non-verbal behaviors available on the video. Our data consists of 30 cases taken from the WAPO 2015 and 2017 databases where the shooting officer’s video remained on and recording after the shooting providing some conversation between officers for analysis. In this paper, we explore three sequential environments where the shooting officer is proferring an account: a) immediate agreement with the shooting officer; b) immediate disagreement with the shooting officer; and c) ambivalent or ambiguous responses to the shooting officer. In everyday conversation, the preference for agreement has been well established (Heritage and Pomerantz 2013). Consequently, exploring how agreement and disagreement occurs in this conversational space is important. Instances of disagreement, delayed agreement, and expressions of ambivalence are particularly notable in that it suggests officers may be far more discerning in their support of a colleague’s deadly force decision in the immediate aftermath of the event. Such behavior provides a more nuanced perspective about the assumption that the police “code of silence” is unequivocally protective of each other. In the limited cases where video captures post-shooting interactions and officers are formally charged and tried in court, in-situ support at the time of the shooting appears to correlate with recipient officers support, or lack there-of, for shooting officers accounts in these proceedings. + |
| LISO-Oct21-2016-Brandon-Mells + | Policing the self: A political and moral ethnography of American police power Brandon Mells, UCLA * Friday, October 21 * Education 1205 * 1:30-3:30 pm During the last several years, a remarkable shift has taken place in the public discourses surrounding American law enforcement and contemporary police practice. Law enforcement has come under intense scrutiny by the American public in general, and social movements like Black Lives Matter have drawn increasing attention to the state sanctioned violence committed against black bodies in the US. One of the main questions the American public faces in this discursive shift though is not simply why there is an uneven distribution of violence towards black people in the US; rather, I argue that the question the American public faces regarding contemporary police practice concerns the bio-political struggle over life itself which is being waged on American streets and is at the heart of the organization of contemporary police practice. Taking off from the important insights of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman on the political and moral constitution of the individual in society, in this presentation I hope to examine how contemporary American police practice is implicated in the politics and morality of the self. Indeed, I will argue that the question of the self, i.e., who someone in fact is, is crucial to the organization and exercise of postmodern police power. + |
| LSI Approaches to communication in and as sport 2018 + | We are seeking abstract submissions from Language and social interaction scholars with current research on settings of sports and sports-media talk for a panel at the International Association for Communication in Sport, April 27-29 Bloomington Indiana, USA. Abstracts would be due to us 15 October. Abstract A fundamental principle of LSI research is that it is with language and embodied action that we constitute our social settings and social lives. It is those shared methods of enacting our social scenes that LSI examines in its program of research. While not sharing LSI's methodologies or paradigm, this constitutive approach is a theoretical perspective shared by scholars in the field of communication and sport (e.g. Kassing et. al. 2016). This panel brings together LSI’s sporadic but longstanding engagement with the study of settings of sports and sports-media talk in order to bridge this gap, highlighting the methodological contribution LSI may make to research in communication and sport. We welcome papers from conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, discursive psychology, (spoken) discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, multimodal interaction analysis, membership categorisation analysis and similar LSI approaches to the study of talk with topics that broadly address the panel theme such as * Exemplar studies of using LSI in analysis of data of individual sports * Novel findings of practices of sports-in-interaction (coaching, play or everyday talk about sport) or sports-media talk * Research linking existing themes in sports communication with LSI programs of study * Discussions of the challenges and benefits of LSI data collection strategies Please email brief outline/wip abstracts (500 words) including affiliation and contact information to edward.reynolds@unh.edu and charlotte.lundgren@liu.se by 15 October in time for inclusion in the panel submission to IACS. The panel chairs will submit directly to IACS. Further information on IACS is available here https://www.communicationandsport.com/summit2018 Kassing, J. W., Billings, A. C., Brown, R. S., Halone, K. K., Harrison, K., Krizek, B., ... & Turman, P. D. (2004). Communication in the community of sport: The process of enacting,(re) producing, consuming, and organizing sport. Annals of the International Communication Association, 28(1), 373-409. + |
| LSI division NCA 2016 + | Language and Social Interaction Division NCA 102nd Annual Convention Division Call The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on language and discourse processes in social interaction. The LSI Division invites submissions of individual papers, paper sessions, and panel discussions for the 102nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10-13, 2016. This year’s convention will engage with the theme “Communication’s Civic Callings” and explore relationships between communication scholarship and multiple communities we participate in. Submissions that address the convention’s theme from the LSI perspective are welcome. Submissions to the LSI division may be empirical, theoretical, methodological, or exploratory in nature but should take an approach that is grounded in at least one of the following traditions: applied linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, membership categorization analysis, narrative analysis, pragmatics, social psychology of language, social semiotics, sociolinguistics, or speech act theory. All submissions must be made via NCA Convention Central. The submissions are accepted starting January 18, 2016 until the deadline of March 30, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. Individual Papers: An individual paper is a paper submitted by an author or authors that is not part of a preconceived paper session. Both complete papers (no longer than 25 pages in length, double spaced, excluding references) and extended abstracts will be considered. Extended abstracts should provide a rationale for the study, state the main analytic point(s) or argument(s) of the paper, and include a brief analysis of at least one data extract. Recognition for the top three individual papers will be given, including awards for top paper and top student paper. Only full papers will be considered for the awards. Please complete the required electronic submission fields including title, description, author(s), and keywords. Upload a copy of your paper or abstract. All identifying author information (names, institutions, hidden document properties) should be removed from your paper document before uploading. Please indicate whether your paper submission should be considered a student-authored paper and if you would like to be considered for presentation in Scholar to Scholar on the electronic submission form. Paper Sessions: A paper session is a preconceived and complete session of papers surrounding a particular topic in which each presenter (3-5) presents her or his paper. Paper sessions are submitted and reviewed for consideration as a whole. Paper session submissions should include: 1) a session title; 2) an overall session description; 3) chair(s) and respondent(s) (if applicable); 4) titles, author(s), and abstracts for each paper; 5) a rationale for the value of the session. Panel Discussions: A panel discussion is a preconceived and complete session of presenters discussing a particular topic or issue. Panel discussions should include: 1) a panel title; 2) an overall panel description; 3) participant contact information; 4) a rationale for the value of the panel. All submitters are encouraged to review the Professional Standards for Convention Participants prior to submission. Helpful resources, including step-by-step instructions on how to submit, definitions of different submission types, and how to prepare a blind submission, are available in the NCA Convention Resource Library at www.natcom.org/conventionresources. All submissions must be made online through NCA Convention Central, and must list any A/V requirements at the time of submission. Check your email address listed in NCA Convention Central before or after submission, as all correspondence goes there. Further information about the LSI division can be found at our website: www.nca-lsi.org. For questions about this call, please contact the Vice-Chair of the LSI division: Galina Bolden Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA E-mail: gbolden@rci.rutgers.edu + |
| LW2024 + | We are excited to announce the 7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024) on July 16-17 at Queen’s University Belfast. The workshop will be a pre-conference event, part of the 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (www.isre2024.org). Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviours and in managing the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, clicks, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that are being increasingly studied from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding), their relations to the social actions they are part of, their perceived meanings (perception/decoding), and their ordering in interaction. Furthermore, with the increased interest for more naturalness in human-machine interaction, current times also invite exploring how these phenomena can be integrated in speech applications. Research themes include, but are not restricted to, these aspects of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations: Articulation, acoustics, and perception Interaction and pragmatics Affective and evaluative meanings Social perception and organisation Disfluency Technology applications Researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts (2 pages long, including figures and references) describing their work, including work in progress. The deadline for submission is March 15th, 2024. More information about the submission process can be found on our website (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024). There will be two keynote presentations on the topics treated by the workshop, delivered by Prof. Carolyn McGettigan (University College London, UK) and Prof. Margaret Zellers (Kiel University, Germany). Looking forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to the workshop in July! Best wishes, The LW2024 Organising Committee Bogdan Ludusan, Bielefeld University, Germany Marina Cantarutti, University of York, United Kingdom For further information or questions regarding the workshop you can contact the organisers at the following email address: LaughterWorkshop2024@gmail.com + |
| LW2027 + | The Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop is an interdisciplinary exchange forum where new findings and work-in-progress are discussed with other scholars from diverse research areas in order to gain a better understanding of these phenomena. In 2027, the workshop would be in its 8th edition, celebrating the 20th anniversary from the first edition, with previous events held in Saarbrücken (2007), Berlin (2009), Dublin (2012), Enschede (2015) Paris (2018), Bielefeld (2020), Belfast (2024). Submissions in previous editions have included work on Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, Gesture Studies, Computer Science, Human-Robot and Human-Machine Interaction, Forensic Speech Science, Psychology, Sociolinguistics, L2 Learning, Health and Clinical applications. We're delighted to announce that the keynote speakers will be Prof. Catherine Pelachaud and Prof. Leelo Keevallik. The call for extended abstracts will open on September 1st. Stay up to date by visiting our website at bit.ly/LW2027. + |
| Language and Social Interaction Working Group 2017 + | The 7th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, September 22-23 (Fri & Sat), 2017 __INVITED SPEAKERS__ * John Heritage (University of California, Los Angeles) * Jürgen Streeck (University of Texas, Austin) 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 dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include descriptions of the following aspects of the study: (1) problem(s) being addressed; (2) central claim(s); (3) data source(s) and analytic approach(es); (4) a short piece of data to support the main argument; (5) implication(s) of the findings. 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 15 or 20-minute slot with an additional 10 or 5 minutes for discussion. Deadline for electronic submission is May 31, 2017. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by July 15, 2017. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi Conference Co-chairs * Hansun Zhang Waring * Elizabeth Reddington * Junko Takahashi * Gahye Song + |
| Lboro training - Conversation Analysis & Healthcare Interactions Jan 2020 + | Workshop: ==Conversation analysis and healthcare interactions== Marco Pino and Ruth Parry ===Thursday 30th/Friday 31st January 2020=== Conversation analysis (CA) is used increasingly in the scientific study of diverse health care and medical interactions, ranging from primary to secondary and tertiary care settings. CA has been used to examine numerous activities, from how patients introduce their problems to the ways in which medical decisions are negotiated and communicated. CA studies range from basic work on the fundamentals of human interaction, to applied research aimed at contributing to service improvement. ===What does this workshop cover?=== The workshop will provide an overview of the application of CA to healthcare interactions, including interactions between medical doctors, patients, and (on occasions) family members, and interactions with other healthcare professionals. The workshop will include in-depth information and practical work on CA’s methodology (including transcription and data analysis) and examination of some key findings of CA research in healthcare. The workshop aims to enable learning and enhancement of participants’ skills in CA’s methods of analysis. ===How is the workshop structured?=== This 2-day workshop will run from 10am to 5pm on the first day and 9am-4pm on the second day. Short presentations by the facilitators (Marco Pino and Ruth Parry) will cover fundamental aspects of CA and its applications to the study of healthcare interactions. However, workshop time will largely be dedicated to practical sessions and small-group assignments focusing on original data (provided by the facilitators) in a range of healthcare settings. There will be a strong emphasis on hands-on experience of working with data alongside feedback from and discussion with facilitators. ===Who is the workshop for?=== The workshop is open to all postgraduates, post-docs, researchers and faculty. The number of participants will be restricted to 20 (in order to maximise opportunities for participation). A nominal charge will cover costs, including photocopies of training materials, refreshments and buffet lunches (not accommodation). For employed persons and PhD students with training budgets the charge is £120. For unwaged and PhD students without training budgets the charge is £60. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Do I need to have prior knowledge of conversation analysis? No. This workshop is open to participants who do not have prior knowledge of CA. To register: Please follow this link: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/short-courses/communication-and-media/conversation-analysis/conversation-analysis-and-healthcare-interactions Enquiries to Marco Pino: m.pino@lboro.ac.uk + |
| LboroAdvancedCA2019 + | Workshop in Advanced Conversation Analysis Loughborough University 23-25 September 2019 Conversation analysis (CA) is used in the scientific study of social interaction, ranging from mundane to institutional settings. CA is used to examine how people accomplish social activities through the use of talk and other semiotic resources (including the non-verbal). CA studies range from basic work on the fundamentals of human interaction, to applied research aimed at contributing to service improvement. What does this workshop cover? The 3-day workshop will provide an overview of advanced topics in CA research as well as key prospects and problems in CA methodology. The workshop aims to build on the skills that participants already have in CA methods of analysis. How is the workshop structured? This workshop will run from 1pm to 6pm on the first day and then 9am-6pm on the second day, and 9am-5pm on the third day. Short presentations by the facilitators will cover advanced aspects of CA and its applications to various areas of inquiry. Most of the workshop will be dedicated to practical sessions and hands-on analytic work. Participants will work in small groups on data provided by the facilitators. They will identify an original phenomenon and will share their findings in a short, informal group presentation towards the end of the workshop. The analytic work will be supported by the facilitators. Facilitators: Saul Albert, Charles Antaki, Ruth Parry, Marco Pino, Jessica Robles, Rein Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe. Who is the workshop for? The workshop is open to postgraduates, post-docs, researchers and faculty who have a good knowledge of CA and wish to consolidate their analytic skills. This includes established colleagues interested in exploring new specialties. The number of participants will be restricted to 20 (in order to maximise opportunities for participation). The fee for the three days will cover costs, including photocopies of training materials, refreshments and buffet lunches. For employed persons and PhD students with training budgets the charge is £250. For unwaged and PhD students without training budgets the charge is £195. Do I need to have prior knowledge of conversation analysis? Yes. This workshop is open to participants who have a good working knowledge of CA. How do I apply? Enquiries and applications to Marco Pino: m.pino@lboro.ac.uk To help us prepare the Workshop and tailor it to participants’ interests: Please send a short note (no more than 100 words) saying what you would like us to cover. We have reserved some slots for skills session, which we would like to dedicate to participants’ preferred topics as much as possible. + |
| LboroCA&healthcare2021b + | Online workshop in conversation analysis and healthcare interactions Saul Albert, Charles Antaki, Ruth Parry, Marco Pino, and Jessica Robles Loughborough University Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th September 2021 Conversation analysis (CA) is used increasingly in the scientific study of diverse health care and medical interactions, ranging from primary to secondary and tertiary care settings. CA has been used to examine numerous activities, from how patients introduce their problems to the ways in which medical decisions are negotiated and communicated. CA studies range from basic work on the fundamentals of human interaction, to applied research aimed at contributing to service improvement. What does this workshop cover? The workshop will provide an overview of the application of CA to healthcare interactions, including interactions between medical doctors, patients, and (on occasions) family members, and interactions with other healthcare professionals. The workshop will include in-depth information and practical work on CA’s methodology (including data analysis) and examination of some key findings of CA research in healthcare. The workshop aims to enable learning and enhancement of participants’ skills in CA’s methods of analysis. How is the workshop structured? This 2-day workshop will run from 10am to 3.30pm (BST) on the first day and 9am-4pm (BST) on the second day. It will be delivered online using Microsoft Teams. Short presentations by the facilitators will cover fundamental aspects of CA and its applications to the study of healthcare interactions. However, workshop time will largely be dedicated to practical sessions and small-group assignments focusing on original data (provided by the facilitators) in a range of healthcare settings. There will be a strong emphasis on hands-on experience of working with data alongside feedback from and discussion with facilitators. Who is the workshop for? The workshop is open to postgraduates, post-docs, researchers and faculty who have at least some familiarity with CA as a research methodology (including CA transcription conventions). The number of participants will be restricted to 20 in order to maximise opportunities for participation in the online environment. Registration fee: - For employed academics and PhD students with training budgets: £100 - For unwaged academics and PhD students without training budgets: £25 - Commercial applicants: please get in touch with us to discuss your participation We encourage potential attenders who are unwaged or otherwise less able to afford the registration to contact the organisers as fees are negotiable in some circumstances. To apply Please send an email to m.pino@lboro.ac.uk introducing yourself and telling us about your existing knowledge of CA and your plans for using CA in your own research. Note: if are not already familiar with CA and want to attend this workshop, we recommend that you first attend our workshop ‘CA for beginners’, scheduled for the 3rd of September 2021 (you will need to apply for it separately). We will reserve extra places for applications from areas with fewer EMCA training opportunities (see http://emcawiki.net/Where_to_study_EMCA). + |
| LboroPhD2020 + | We are advertising an ESRC DTP Collaborative PhD studentship. The student will work with Ruth Parry and Marco Pino on communication in end of life care, using conversation analysis. * ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Communicating about end of life and related matters in hospice consultations Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership - Loughborough University and LOROS, Hospice Care for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland * Qualification Type: PhD * Location: Loughborough * Funding for: UK Students, EU Students * Funding amount: See advert text. * Hours: Full Time, Part Time * Placed On: 31st January 2020 * Closes: 2nd March 2020 * The Midlands Graduate School is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). One of 14 partnerships in the UK, the Midlands Graduate School is a collaboration between the University of Warwick, Aston University, University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, Loughborough University and the University of Nottingham. Loughborough University, as part of Midlands Graduate School, is inviting applications for an ESRC Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner LOROS, Hospice Care for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, to commence in October 2020. The successful applicant will undertake a study using the methodology of conversation analysis – entailing detailed inductive analysis of recordings of real-life interactions. The student will examine how sensitive conversational activities, including discussing death and dying, are managed within interactions between patients, their companions, and healthcare practitioners who specialise in palliative and end-of-life care. The applicant will spend time with LOROS Hospice staff and service users, and visit other UK Hospices. Through field visits, discussions, relevant reading, and academic supervision, the applicant will be supported in developing their own distinctive research foci. After familiarising themselves with key concepts and empirical studies, the student will examine an existing dataset comprising 85 audio/visually-recorded hospice consultations involving 85 patients (and sometimes companions), 5 consultants in palliative medicine, 5 occupational therapists, and 3 physiotherapists. Permissions exist for secondary analyses of these data. Analysis will include watching recordings, identifying sequences of talk containing phenomena of interest, and generating detailed transcripts using notation capturing what people say and how they say it, including silences, intonation, and embodied conduct. The collaborating organisation (LOROS) hosts a large research and education centre. The education department delivers communication skills training annually to over 350 health and social care professionals from the East Midlands and beyond. The student will be based within the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough and benefit from input from the VERDIS research group, led by Ruth Parry and Marco Pino. The group specialises in the study of communication on palliative and end-of-life care. The student will receive comprehensive training in the analysis of interpersonal communication. Familiarity with healthcare contexts and with conversation analysis would be advantageous but are not vital. The applicant should be fully prepared to work closely with data that can be emotionally and indeed existentially challenging; associated support mechanisms in place for all team members will also be available to the PhD student. Application Process To be considered for this PhD, please complete the Collaborative Studentship application form available online here and email this alongside your CV, to Denise Wade: D.J.Wade@lboro.ac.uk. Shortlisted applicants will be required to provide two references. Application deadline: Monday 2 March 2020 Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP Our ESRC studentships cover fees and maintenance stipend and extensive support for research training, as well as research activity support grants. Support is available only to successful applicants who fulfil eligibility criteria. To check your eligibility, visit: www.mgsdtp.ac.uk/studentships/eligibility/ Informal enquiries about the research or the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough prior to application can be directed to Dr Marco Pino: m.pino@lboro.ac.uk. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/collaborativeandjoint/parry_loughborough_-_collab_advert_2020.pdf + |
