]> 2026-05-20T07:15:27-06:00 CASLC talk by Dr Matthew Butler 0 en Uncategorized 2026-03-03Z 2461102.5 Dr Matthew Butler to give CASLC talk, 12/3/2026, 2-3.30pm. Title: Talking broadcast talk into being through questions and answers. Register: https://forms.gle/jTNMWf47816i8WFb9 CASLC talk We are delighted to continue our tradition of inviting successful PGRs from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication (CASLC) at the University of York to present some of their PhD research as part of the CASLC seminar programme. Dr Matthew Butler completed his PhD in Sociology at York in August last year and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leicester. We look forward to hearing him present at the next CASLC event on the 12th March from 2.00-3.30pm on zoom. If you are on the CASLC guest mailing list, you will receive the link without registering. If you are not on the list, [https://forms.gle/jTNMWf47816i8WFb9 please register by following this link]. Abstract This talk presents Conversation Analytic work into a collection of interrelated interactional phenomena discovered in broadcast talk. We focus firstly on question design, exploring a novel practice that news interviewers adopt to simultaneously block potential responses an interviewee may produce, while also talking aspects of the broadcast talk social institution into being (e.g., legal constraints or social norms) prior to issuing a question. Our attention then turns to response design, where we explore a puzzling phenomenon involving interviewees issuing two contrastive responses to a question. Here, we show that the choice of response design enables interviewees to display alternate ways they have heard the question which producing a single response cannot achieve. The presentation demonstrates the ubiquity of question and response design as an integral resource for news interviewers and interviewees to ‘do’ aspects of their job while managing context-specific concerns and constraints they face because the interaction takes place for an overhearing audience. CASLC talk by Dr Matthew Butler 2026-03-12Z 2461111.5 Seminar or talk 2026-03-03T17:21:13Z 2461103.2230671 CASLC talk by Dr Matthew Butler 0 1 icalendar 3 [[Category:Announcements]] [[AnnShortTitle::CASLC talk]] CASLC talk by Dr Matthew Butler