UW Interaction Interest Group

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

2012-02-18T11:12:00.005-06:00

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

2012-02-18T10:49:00.008-06:00

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

2011-03-16T09:31:00.005-05:00

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

2011-01-17T16:26:00.002-06:00

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

2010-10-15T11:54:00.001-05:00

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

2010-10-02T18:34:00.003-05:00

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

2010-07-05T21:40:00.002-05:00

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

Spring Data Sessions Continued

2010-03-22T20:40:00.002-05:00

We do have more data sessions coming up.
Location: UW-Madison College Library, 2nd Fl. Media Studio.
Time: 4:15-5:45 or so..

CANCELLED -- TO BE RESCHEULED!!!!
[[[[3/26 Karen Schaepe: Bad news disclosures in the cancer outpatient clinic]]]

4/9 Veronika Drake: Bodily actions and turn extension

4/23 Mika Simonen: Assessment interviews of social functional capacity (Finnish data)

5/7 Beth Godbee: Negotiations of power in one-with-one writing conferences

**Please contact Ceci (ceford@wisc.edu) if you are interested in attending data sessions. The only requirement is experience with a conversation analytic attitude toward discovery, data, and grounding observations in participant orientations.

Dr. Michie Kawashima to visit UW, Feb. 25-26

2010-02-23T16:51:00.002-06:00

Michie Kawashima, Saitama University, Japan, will be visiting the UW CA community on Feburary 25th-26th..

In connection with Dr. Michie Kawashima's visit, two research-oriented sessions are planned:

1. Data presentation. (This is not a formal presentation. Michie wishes to discuss some of her data on the topic, "Doing Refusal During Hotline Calls between Dispatchers and Medical Professionals.")

Thursday, February 25, Room 2435 Sewell Social Science

3:30-5:00

2. Regular Data session. Repair organization in talk in Emergency Room Treatment

Friday, February 26, 2010, College Library Media Studio, room 2191E
4:15-6:00

There will also be a potluck at Doug Maynard's home following the data session.

Spring 2010: Data Sessions for CA Practitioners

2010-02-02T11:49:00.006-06:00

Practice applying CA methods.**

Location: College Library Media Room, Room 2191E (go through doors into the periodicals section and turn left)

Time: 4:15-6p every other Friday

2/12 Trini Stickle and Ceci Ford: Non-vocal practices and getting the floor in workplace meetings

2/26 Michie Kawashima: Special presenter from Japan

3/12 Prof. Junko Mori: Japanese math classroom data

3/26 Karen Schaepe: Bad news disclosures in the cancer outpatient clinic

4/9 Veronika Drake: Bodily actions and turn extension

4/23 Mika Simonen: Assessment interviews of social functional capacity (Finnish data)

5/7 Beth Godbee: Negotiations of power in one-with-one writing conferences

**Please contact Ceci (ceford@wisc.edu) if you are interested in attending data sessions. The only requirement is experience with a conversation analytic attitude toward discovery, data, and grounding observations in participant orientations.

Data Session Fri. Oct. 30th, 4:30 PM

2009-10-07T09:17:00.001-05:00

David Shelly (UW Madison, Sociology)

date: Friday, Oct 30th (had been planned for Oct 28)
time: 4:30 pm
location: Sociology 8108

2009-05-08T22:50:00.003-05:00

Fall 2009 Data Sessions still to come:

David Schelly (Sociology) 10/30 4:30 (see location in post above)

Matt Holland (Sociology) 11/3 4:00

Heather Carroll (English Language and Linguistics) 11/18 11:00

Ceci Ford (English Language and Linguistics & Sociology) 12/4 4:30

*Participation in data sessions assumes training in and commitment to working with conversation analytic methods.

Margret Selting to visit UW CA Community

2009-04-20T22:05:00.016-05:00

Dr. Margret Selting (Potsdam University) will share her current research on interactional linguistics, Research from a project of the Cluster of Excellence ‚Languages of Emotion’ (FU Berlin)

Friday, May 8th
4:00-5:30 PM
Sewell Social Sciences 8146

*Sponsored by Sociology, English and the Applied
Linguistics Student Association:

Abstract: Emotive involvement in conversational storytelling

I will report on some of my recent work on emotive involvement in conversational storytelling. After a few words on the project in general, I will present some case studies of storytelling with affect displays in telephone and face-to-face conversations.

I will analyse in detail the display and handling of affectivity by both storyteller and story recipient. In particular, I will look at the following kinds of resources:

- the verbal and segmental display: rhetorical, lexico-semantic, syntactic, phonetic-phonological resources;

- the prosodic and suprasegmental vocal display: resources from the realms of prosody and voice quality;

- non-verbal or "multimodal" resources from the realms of body posture and its changes, head movements, gaze, and hand movements and gestures.

It will be shown that the display of affectivity is organized in orderly ways in sequences of storytelling in conversation. I will try to reconstruct (a) how segmental, prosodic and non-verbal cues are deployed in co-occurrence in order to make affectivity in general and specific affects in particular interpretable for the recipient and (b) how in turn the recipient responds and takes up the displayed affect. As a result, affectivity is shown to be managed by teller and recipient in storytelling sequences in conversation, involving both the reporting of affects from the story world as well as the negotiation of in-situ affects in the here-and-now of the storytelling situation.

In addition to her presentation, Dr. Selting will be meeting with students and colleagues for a brown bag conversation on May 8th from 12-1, in White 7101.

Dr. Selting is a leading scholar in interactional linguistics. She has made significant contributions to the study of prosody and interaction, sociolinguistic style variation, and the study of linguistic units for interaction, working primarily with forms of contemporary spoken German. Many of us have drawn on Margret's innovative and careful research on turn construction, as represented in "On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation". Pragmatics 6,3 / (1996). and "The construction of units in conversational talk." Language in Society (2000). Dr. Selting has edited and contributed to numerous foundational collections that have recently bridged linguisitics and conversation analysis. Among these are Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1996), Studies in Interactional Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins (2001), and Syntax and Lexis in Conversation.Amsterdam: Benjamins (2005).

Lorenza Mondada to visit. April 17-18

2009-03-20T19:34:00.007-05:00

Professor Lorenza Mondada will be a guest of the CA community at UW Madison on April 17th and 18th. She will give a presentation on the 17th, at 4:00, in Sewell Social Sciences 8108.

Lorenza Mondada is Professor of Linguistics at the Department for Language Studies, University of Lyon 2, and at the ICAR (Interactions, Corpus, Acquisition, Representation) Lab, and CNRS (National de la Recherche Scientifique).

Her research deals with the grammatical and multimodal practices and resources mobilized by participants in interaction. Her current research is carried out on video-recordings from various institutional and professional settings (in medical contexts as well as in other workplaces) and on ordinary conversations, focusing on the ways in which participants sequentially and multimodally organize their (often multiple) courses of action.

The Departments of Sociology and English present:

Professor Lorenza Mondada

Presentation Title: "Locating emergencies: place formulations in call centres"
Date: Friday, April 17th
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Sewel Social Sciences Building, Room to be announced.

Abstract: This talk deals with the way in which participants in remote places coordinate their activities, taking for granted shared spaces, managing the discovery of fragmented and mobile geographies and actively searching for common ways of reassembling them. In order to explore these topics and to document the various practices through which co-participants coordinate, articulate and negotiate locations, spatial formulations, and common recognition of relevant places, the paper focuses on a “perspicuous setting” (Garfinkel & Wieder, 1992) which reveals the praxeological details of these practices: the coordination of remote activities in call centres. During calls, callers give their locations to call-takers, and call-takers give instructions to help-dispatchers about the place in which to find people to be helped. Often, misunderstandings arise about the helped location. The study of place formulations aims at a) documenting the various ‘methods’ (Garfinkel, 1967) through with participants make the relevant geography accountable and publicly intelligible and b) at making explicit the methodology that allows this documentation, based on the analysis of naturalistic video recordings of situated activities.

Contact Cecilia Ford: ceford@wisc.edu

We expect to have a data session on Saturday April 18th, and there will also be opportunities for graduate students and colleagues to meet informally with Lorenza.

Andrea Golato to speak, Feb. 27th

2009-02-01T23:45:00.001-06:00

A presentation on language and interaction by
Andrea Golato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments"

Sponsored by ALSA (Applied Linguistics Student Association), Sociology, the Language Institute, East Asian Languages and Literature, the Interaction and Language Fund

Description:
Using conversation analysis as methodology, this paper focuses on compliment sequences in German conversation. Specifically, it analyzes the form and function of appreciatory sounds (oh, ah) and expressions of embodied pleasure (mmh) in compliment sequences. The data for this presentation come from 35 hours of everyday conversation, both video-taped face-to-face interaction and audio-taped telephone interaction among native speakers of German from a variety of regions.

Andrea Golato is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests lie in conversation analysis, specifically the intersection of culture, grammar and interaction.

Date: Feburary 27th
Time: 3:45-5:15
Location: Van Hise 254