State of Talk: Recent Episodes
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Interviews and data sessions with Conversation Analysts - a Podcast from The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA)
In this special episode in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, you’ll hear an interview with John Heritage, professor emeritus of…
In this episode you’ll hear an interview with two of the first researchers to apply EMCA in Germany — Jörg…
In this episode you’ll hear an interview with Melisa Stevanovic, assistant professor of social psychology at Tampere university in Finland.…
This episode was recorded as part of the "Life in CA" plenary at the Digital Meeting on Conversation Analysis in November 2022. During the plenary session, our guests: Bogdana Huma, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, and Chase Raymond answered audience questions put to them via the conference 'Whova' platform. Saul Albert (the host) introduces each guest during the episode, but their biographies (from the DMCA website) are included below for the sake of completeness.
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen held the position of professor for English linguistics at the University of Konstanz from 1995-2002 and at the University of Potsdam from 2003-2009. From 2009-2013 she was Finland Distinguished Professor for Interactional Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. She is now located in Berlin, Germany. Her recent publications are devoted to the study of prosody and grammar in Interaction, and include monographs and edited volumes such as Interactional Linguistics (co-authored with Margret Selting); Requesting in Social Interaction (co-edited with Paul Drew), and Imperative Turns at Talk (co-edited with Marja-Leena Sorjonen & Liisa Raevaara); as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.
Chase Raymond
Chase Wesley Raymond holds PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics (2014) and Sociology (2016), both from UCLA, and is currently Associate 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, with a particular emphasis on grammar. His research has appeared in journal outlets across the fields of Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, Communication Studies, and Medicine, and he is author (with Luis Manuel Olguín) of Análisis de la Conversación: Fundamentos, Metodología y Alcances (Routledge 2022).
Bogdana Huma
Bogdana Huma is an Assistant Professor in the department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Originally, her background was in psychology and sociology, which she studied at the University of Bucharest in Romania. She discovered conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology (DP) quite late, while she was doing her PhD in sociology, and she was captivated by the originality of these new approaches that could make sense of apparently ‘messy’ everyday interaction. So far, her research has used CA, DP and, on occasion, ethnomethodology and membership categorisation analysis to examine commercial encounters, gender inequalities, and, more recently, healthcare interactions.
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In this episode, Elliott Hoey interviews Leelo Keevallik, Professor of Language, Culture, and Interaction at Linköping University, and also associate editor…
In this episode you’ll hear an interview with Hansun Zhang Waring, Professor of Linguistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University…
In this episode, Saul Albert introduces a feature interview with Doug Maynard and Jason Turowetz, co-authors of an exciting new book entitled Autistic Intelligence, published in summer 2022 by the University of Chicago Press.
In this episode, Saul Albert interviews Charles Antaki, Professor Emeritus of Language and Social Psychology at Loughborough University. Charles is…
In this episode, Elliott Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) interviews Stuart Ekberg, associate professor of in the School of Psychology and…
In this episode, Elliott Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) interviews Sara Goico and Natasha Shrikant about the group Ethnomethodology and Conversation…
In this episode, Elliott Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) interviews Lorenza Mondada, professor of linguistics at the University of Basel. Professor Mondada is now the world’s foremost authority on the analysis of video recorded social interactions, especially as regards the interplay of multimodal resources for the constitution of everyday and institutional activities. In recent work, she has examined in a series of papers the interpenetration of talk and ambulatory movement, she recently edited a volume on touch in social interaction, and coming out this summer is a monograph entitled Sensing in social interaction. Among many other sites, Lorenza has recorded in wine and cheese shops all over Europe, as well as bakeries and butcheries, in train depots and border crossing stations, art museums and garden tours, and documented activities from dumpster diving to fine dining. Given this truly remarkable breadth of fieldwork, she was the perfect person to talk to about data collection.
In this episode, Saul Albert (Loughborough University) does a data session and a short interview with Anita Pomerantz, Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Albany. Her conversation analytic work on agreeing and disagreeing, seeking and providing information and negotiating responsibility for blameworthy and praiseworthy deeds has been foundational for the field, opening up new areas of basic CA work, and has shaped the rich field of applied CA work - including her own - in medical and legal contexts. She has served as Chair of the Language and Social Interaction Divisions of both the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association, and has recently completed a book with Oxford University Press entitled “Asking and Telling in Conversation"
In this episode, Yumei Gan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) interviews Marjorie Harness (Candy) Goodwin, distinguished research professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Candy is a linguistic anthropologist, whose research deals with "the embodied language practices human beings use to construct in concert with each other the social, cultural and cognitive worlds they inhabit". In this interview, Yumei and Candy talk about Candy's early data sessions with Gail Jefferson, Charles Goodwin, and Erving Goffman, as well as data collection and analytic interests.
Welcome to the State of Talk podcast, brought to you by the International Society for Conversation Analysis. In this episode, Saul Albert (Loughborough University) conducts a data session with Professor Mardi Kidwell. Professor Kidwell is chair of the department of communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her research deals with all aspects of embodied communication and has centred on studies of police–citizen communication and children’s communication. Her contributions to fundamental conversation analytic work have focused on gaze, facial and bodily orientations, mutual attentiveness and availability, and the overall coordination of practical meaning in interaction.
Welcome to the State of Talk podcast. For this episode Elliott Hoey interviews Prof. Anne Warfield Rawls, Professor of Sociology at Bentlee University and Research Professor of Socio-informatics at the University of Siegen. We got to talk to Anne about a new and incredibly timely and important anthology of papers she put together with Waverly Duck and Kevin Whitehead called Black Lives Matter: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies of Race and Systemic Racism in Everyday Interaction.
Welcome back to the State of Talk podcast. For this second episode Dr Emily Hofstetter talks to Prof. Leelo Keevalik about a piece of video data involving a syntactic-bodily unit used in a collaborative completion by a teacher and a student in a partner dance class.
Welcome to the kick-start of the State of Talk podcast. For this first episode we interview Prof Rod Gardner. We got to talk about some of the history of CA in Australia, some of the fascinating multi-modal work their team is doing in remote Australia and a return to ‘mmm’.