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

Spring Data Sessions Continued

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

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

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

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).