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