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

David Shelly (UW Madison, Sociology)

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

Fall 2009 Data Sessions still to come:

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

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

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

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