CASLC talk by Prof Gonzalez-Martinez
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| Type | Seminar or talk |
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| Dates | 2026/03/26 - 2026/04/23 |
| Link | https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/caslc |
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| Tweet | CASLC talk by Prof González-Martínez on "recruitment in sight:questioning the initial recruiting utterance", 23/4/26 2pm UK time. Register: https://forms.gle/EUBjtAXMNPBGaVXKA |
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CASLC talk by Prof González-Martínez:
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The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication at the University of York is delighted to host a talk by Professor Esther González-Martínez from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Title: Recruitment in sight: questioning the initial recruiting utterance.
Date: Thursday 23rd April 2026 Time: 2.00pm-3.30pm (UK time) Place: zoom.
If you're on the CASLC guest mailing list, you will receive a zoom link automatically. If not, you can register for the talk by filling in a short form: https://forms.gle/CEiBYrg6xbKE6ad96.
Abstract: This presentation is based on the analysis of unscheduled interactions between hospital staff in two acute care facilities in French-speaking Switzerland. In collaboration with colleagues, I have examined video recordings of corridor talk among team members in an outpatient clinic as well as audio recordings of telephone conversations between surgical nursing staff and other hospital personnel. Most of these interactions consist of a very brief verbal exchange, lasting less than one minute, centred on a single main activity: securing the involvement of a co-worker in a new practical task. The staff member initiating the exchange thus swiftly produces an utterance that states or implies the expected practical engagement from their interlocutor. The presentation will detail several studies, we have conducted on this basis in recent years. These focus on the identification of the initial recruiting utterance and the function of some of the preceding talk, which is oriented towards spatially locating the prospective participants, securing their attention, checking availability, and communicating background information. These studies also examine initial recruiting utterances that diverge from conventional forms of requests or reports, in that they consist of brief, declarative statements which do not refer to a need, a want, or a trouble, nor to remedial action. In presenting these findings, I aim to highlight the interest of 'recruitment' as an analytical phenomenon and to further explore the empirical questions it raises.
