Does anyone know if there are any descriptions of "requests for assessments" as a question type? Such as "What do you think?" and related #linguistics #EMCA

Sorry to all syntacticians, but my article just came out: "Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in Danish" - the reviewers did not comment on the title!

It lets you know about what "fuck" and "fucking" is used for in interaction, and how they are distributed across different syntactic constructions and how those are used for different kinds of assessments, sequentially speaking.

Open access:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nordic-journal-of-linguistics/article/fuck-syntax-and-fucking-syntax-in-the-borrowing-of-swearwords-for-assessments-in-danish/5DC53ECDDA9525CB04C1AA276AD88DDE

#Danish #syntax #linguistics #EMCA

We’re hiring! PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language

Jobs! If you are interested in fundamental research at the intersection of language, interaction and technology, have a look at the PhD and postdoc positions we are advertising. We look forward to growing the Futures of Language team.

https://ideophone.org/were-hiring-phd-and-postdoc-positions-in-futures-of-language/

Me and Michael Mair (University of Liverpool) are running an Ethnomethodology Summer School 11-15 August, for interested applicants currently undertaking Masters or PhD studies in a social-sciences-relevant area. See link for detail: http://bit.ly/44xYwom

##ethnomethodology #sociology #emca

whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads https://markdingemanse.net/futures/news/summer-reads/

#SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage

Conversation has structure and languages reflect these structures. #Linguistics acknowledges the importance of spoken language, but the many attempts at fulfilling the implications of thait are with mixed succes. #Conversation Analysis offers many detailed analyses of specific conversational practices and their structures as related to interaction. In this book, we collect a number of such descriptions while working towards an account of the #grammar as a whole #EMCA

https://benjamins.com/catalog/slsi.37.01ste

The book "Grammar in Action" is out and I've received my physical one!!! #linguistics #grammar #emca

"Hva fanden" ('what the devil') is a #Danish swearing expression used as part of questions. The range of questions include word search and other-initiation of repair, but also genuine requests for information overlaid frustration. However, "hva fanden" is also very frequently used in reported speech (or thought), where its part of assessing, building on the previous uses but with a strong stance!

The article was just published in Gesprächsforschung📜

http://www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/fileadmin/dateien/heft2025/ga-soerensen.pdf
#EMCA #linguistics

Is there a good terminology to distinguish assessments that are "reactive" (but still first assessments), for instance to some sudden (possibly non-verbal) event or noticing (e.g., "oh shit" or maybe "great catch"), in contrast to assessments that also introduce the assessable, so to say? Assessments in third position and during stories may be considered 'reactive' like this, but they are in a specific sequential context different than my focus now
#EMCA

Another piece of text got uploaded to ResearchGate: My 2019 MUDS chapter on action distinctions within response tokens and their varied relation to intonation [in Danish]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389913929_Handling_og_intonation_pa_tvaers_af_svarord
#EMCA #intonation

We (Kevin Whitehead, Geoff Raymond, and I) are very happy to announce a new book: Categories in Social Interaction - out now from Routledge. In it, we investigate categories from the most mundane to those most strongly associated with power and privilege. By examining the reciprocal relationships between categorial phenomena and the basic structures of social interaction, we aim to provide a new integration of CA and MCA #EMCA

The best CA&CE scenario: report from the 8th CA&CE Meeting, Oxford July 1-3 2024
Welcome to Oxford - CA&CE 2024 Virginia Calabria (Durham University) and Yicen Guo (Oxford University)

This summer the 8th International Meeting on Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters (CA&CE 2024) took place. Over three days, a diverse group of 96 inte
https://www.conversationanalysis.org/the-best-cace-scenario-report-from-the-8th-cace-meeting-oxford-july-1-3-2024/
#Uncategorized #CACE2024 #EMCA

The University of York offers a course on the #Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction in June this year!

https://www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd/sector-specific-courses/phonetics-talk-in-interaction/

#UoY #EMCA

New CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit

📍📅 Friday 7th March 2025, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online - to register:

eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... (fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates) 💬

Our article "Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction" critically discusses some linguistic concepts in the context of interaction, on the basis of some specific studies within the "Grammar in Everyday Life". The process and discussions behind this were very heavy and demanding and I would love to hear people's thoughts... Now, a (before proof) version has been uploaded to ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371462881_Toward_a_Grammar_of_Danish_Talk-in-Interaction_From_Action_Formation_to_Grammatical_Description
#linguistics #EMCA

My best part of my PhD thesis is probably the paper on rising 'ja' (yes) and 'nej' (no) in Danish). It shows that these are used for affiliation in contrast to the 'normal' versions with level intonation. But it also shows how the rising pitch often (cor)responds to a wide pitch span in the previous turn, as part of making affiliation relevant.

Now your can get a version of this on ResearchGate (AAM, before layout and proofs)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348636560_Affiliating_in_Second_Position_Response_Tokens_with_Rising_Pitch_in_Danish

#linguistics #phonetics #emca #intonation

My university DOES have access to the Handbook of Methods in CA 😍 📖 🥳

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-cambridge-handbook-of-methods-in-conversation-analysis/E6E6C302B82A8CD88A8E3988449796DD

#emca

Was TCU always short for "turn constructionAL unit" and not "turn construction unit"?
#EMCA

Full-time fixed term postdoctoral research assistant for an #EMCA/DA project on patient safety in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Deadline: 27th September 2024.,https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/10645/research-associate.html

Ann Weatherall's #ForensicCA2024 #EMCA presentation shows how instructors in feminist self-defence classes 'animate' legislation about what constitutes self-defence or (by contrast) construct extreme (illegal) cases of vengeful or disproportionate violence