Johannes Wagner to visit UW Madison, April 13-14, 2012

Johannes Wagner is Professor in Communication Studies and Chairman of the Ph.D. School of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark. Since 1997 Dr. Wagner has been the director of the International Graduate School in Language and Communication. His research focuses on issues of L2 conversation and learning. His most recent book is Johannes Wagner, 2004, eds: Second Language Conversations. London: Continuum. (with Rod Gardner).

Ongoing research projects include a corpus of interaction data in different languages. Development of electronic tools and corpora for CA research. In cooperation with Talkbank. Læring og Integration (Language Acquisition and Integration). Research projected sponsored by the Danish National Research Council for the Humanities. (With several cooperators)

Dr. Wagner will be a plenary speaker at the 2012 Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium, this year on the theme "Language Choice and Choosing a Language". For more information on the symposium use this link:

http://slagrads.rso.wisc.edu/2012symposiumhome.html

Virginia Teas Gill and Felicia Roberts: Visiting Scholars in Sociology

Visiting Scholars in Sociology, Fall 2011

Virginia Teas Gill is Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. During the Fall 2011 semester she is on sabbatical at UW-Madison, where she is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Sociology. A conversation analyst, Professor Gill studies interaction between physicians and patients. She has a particular interest in the interactional practices patients and physicians use to offer, press for, and resist interpretations of illness, as well as patients' requests for medical interventions. She is a former Co-Chair of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and is currently Finance Officer for the International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). With Alison Pilnick and Jon Hindmarsh, she recently co-edited the volume, Communication in Healthcare Settings: Policy, Participation and New Technologies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Dr. Gill's faculty page at Illinois State University:
http://sociologyanthropology.illinoisstate.edu/profiles/default.aspx?q=BM200809310019




Felicia Roberts is Associate Professor of Communications at Purdue, where she is also a member of the Program in Linguistics. Dr. Roberts' primary interest is conversation analysis, understanding the coordinated verbal and nonverbal practices that construct everyday and institutional life. Her research crosses contexts from doctor-patient encounters to parent-child interaction, to veterinarians managing people and their pets. Ongoing interests in language attitudes, perception of non-standard speakers, language variation and change.

Representative Publications

• Roberts, F. (in press). Qualitative approaches to clinician-patient communication In D.W. Kissane B.D. Bultz, Butow, P. & Finlay, I. (Eds.) Handbook of Oncology and Palliative Care. Oxford University Press.
• Roberts, F., Wilson, Delaney, J. & Rack, J. (2009). Interactional patterns as indicators of trait verbal aggressiveness. In D. Cahn (Ed.) Family Violence: Communication Processes, pp. 155-178. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• Roberts, F., Francis, A.L., Morgan, M. (2006). The interaction of inter-turn silence with prosodic cues in listener perceptions of "trouble" in conversation. Speech Communication, 48, 1079-1093.
• Balog, H. L. & Roberts, F. (2004). Perception of utterance relatedness during the first-word period. Journal of Child Language, 31, 837-854.
• Roberts, F. & Robinson, J.D. (2004). Inter-observer agreement on '"first-stage" conversation analytic transcriptions. Human Communication Research, 30, 376-410

Steve Clayman Visit - March 30th-April 1

Mark your calendar for two events involving Professor Steve Clayman
from UCLA later in March:

1. Sociology Departmental Colloquium: Wednesday, March 30, 12:15 p.m.,
Sewell Social Sci. Bldg, room 8417

Questioning Authority: The White House Press Corps as Watchdog,
Lapdog, or Attack Dog?

2. Data session with Steve Clayman: Friday, April 1, 3-5:00 p.m. in 8108 Sewell (Havens Center).

Steven E. Clayman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research concerns the interface between talk, interaction, and social institutions, with an emphasis on journalism and the mass media. He has examined broadcast new interviews, presidential news conferences, political speeches, and various forms of journalistic gatekeeping. He has authored more than forty articles and is the co-author (with John Heritage) of The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures On the Air (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

A talk by John Rae, Roehampton University, London England

Social Psychology and Microsociology (SPAM) presents:

Prof. John Rae, Department of Psychology, Roehampton University, London England

"Passing stuff: How do humans accomplish manual object transfers?"

Friday, January 21

12:05-1:30

2435 Sewell Social Science

John Rae is a conversation and discourse analyst whose research interests include:

Language, interaction and communication generally
Talk and body movement in social interaction
Multimodal interaction
Interactions involving persons with a challenged capacity (e.g. people with aphasia or with an autistic

spectrum disorder)
Tele-mediated interaction; Computer-mediated communication
Philosophy of the social sciences

Prof. Makoto Hayashi Speaks at UW

Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, Department of English and Department of Sociology
Present a lecture on Conversation Analysis

Proffering insertable elements: A study of other-initiated repair in Japanese

Makoto Hayashi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kaoru Hayano
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

4:30-6:00 pm
Friday, October 15, 2010
L185 Education

Abstract

Intended as a contribution to a growing effort to understand the organization of repair across languages, this paper examines one particular type of turn-constructional practice used for other-initiated repair in Japanese conversation. The target practice, which we term ‘proffering insertable elements’ (PIE), is described as follows. Upon completion of another speaker’s turn, the repair-initiating party proffers a candidate understanding of an element that was projected but not delivered in that prior turn. It is notable in this practice that the proffered candidate understanding is designed in such a way that it is grammatically ‘insertable’ into the structure of the trouble-source turn. For example:

A: kyuushuu ni kaeru koto ni shita toka yutte
Kyushu to return N PT did QT say
(X) told me (X) would go back to Kyushu. {(X) = unexpressed element}

-> oya ga?
parent SP
Your parents?

In this example, B proffers a candidate understanding of an element that was projected but not delivered in A’s turn, and she formats it as a subject noun phrase (a nominal + subject particle ga) that fits into the grammatical structure of A’s turn. Based on an examination of various other forms of other-initiated repair in Japanese, we argue that the format of PIE can be seen as asserting the least degree of speakership on the part of the repair-initiating party. This is so because, in this practice, the proffered understanding is designed and presented as if the repair-initiating party were voicing a part of the trouble source turn by another speaker. In other words, PIEs appear to be designed to maintain the trouble-source speaker’s speakership to a maximum degree while at the same time soliciting confirmation for a correct understanding of a projected yet undelivered element of that other speaker’s turn. We show that this design feature of PIEs makes them suitable for executing an other-initiated repair in a maximally aligning manner—‘aligning’ in the sense that it introduces a minimal disruption to the progressivity of the project that the other speaker is pursuing.

CA Data Sessions—Fall 2010 Schedule

Fridays 4:15 - 6pm

Sewell building, room 8108

Oct 22 Jacque Preston

Collective Persuasions: Tropes, Schemes, and Ideographs

Participants in this Data session are three white female college students and their mothers. The group is discussing the young women's experiences transitioning to the University. Here, the six have moved into a conversation about "being gay." Specifically, I'm looking at how tropes, schemes, and ideographs (even more specifically devices such as reclassification, negation, and repair) are functioning to mediate sociocultural shifts within this social network. I'm not a linguist, so I could really use the perspectives of others.

Oct 29 Beth Godbee

Redistributing Power in One-with-one Writing Conferences

Nov 12 Jae A.D. Takeuchi" jtakeuchi@wisc.edu

I am looking at mutual understanding and negotiation of meaning in interactionsbetween speakers with multilingual backgrounds, and the interactions take place in Japanese.

Data Sessions July-August 2010

Data session continue during summer 2010 thanks to Beth Godbee (dissertator in Rhetoric and Composition, UW Madison).

We are meeting on Thursdays from 2:00-4:00 in H.C. White 6176.

July 8

Heather B. Carroll

The data are conversations among radio disk jockeys. The conversation we will discuss involve an animation of a fictional character, Mr. Sushi.

July 15

Brandy Trygstad

July 22

Karen Schaepe

The data is from a two-day video-recorded conference where conversation analysts present findings on doctor-patient interaction to an audience of medical educators. I'd like to look at a couple of displays of “dual intellectual allegiance” among medical educators who were also trained in conversation analysis. (That is, where someone speaks from both a clinical perspective and from the perspective of CA.) I'm interested in their displays of greater intrapersonal trouble through hesitation and self repair.

July 29

Beth Godbee

One-with-one writing conferences recorded in the Community Writing Assistance Program (writing instructors and community members talking about writing work in progress)

Aug 5

Anne Chevalier McKechnie

Aug 12

Jacque Preston
“Collective Persuasions: Tropes, Schemes, and Ideographs”

Participants in this Data session are three white female college students and their mothers. The group is discussing the young women's experiences transitioning into the University. Here the six have moved into a conversation about "being gay." Specifically, I'm looking at how tropes, schemes, and ideographs are functioning to mediate sociocultural shifts within this social network.

Aug 19

Carolina Schlenker