6th Meeting (2016)

8:00 – 8:30

Registration and Welcome to the Conference

8:30 – 8:55

Stylizing L2 and Performing Masculinities: An Immigrant Adolescent Boy’s Identity Negotiation and Language Learning in One ESL Classroom

Kongji Qin

New York University

Using interactional sociolinguistics and poststructuralist discourse analysis to analyze one immigrant boy’s stylized use of L2 in the ESL classroom, I illustrate his masculinity performance was intertwined with language learning. However, his discursive identity performance, conflicting with his teacher’s instructional goal of socializing students into being “good learners,” complicated his learner identity.

9:00 – 9:25

The Systematic Role of Unsolicited Teacher Talk in Small-Group Activities

Drew Fagan

University of Maryland, College Park

While learner interaction in small-group activities is well-documented, minimal research has investigated teacher interaction. Utilizing a conversation analytic lens, this paper examines one ESOL teacher’s unsolicited talk in these activities by specifically marking the sequential environments in which teacher self-selected turns emerge, their construction, and their influences on activity progression.

9:30 – 9:55

Translanguaging, Code-Switching, or Just Doing ESL Teaching? Teachers’ “Translation” Turns in Response to Learner Questions in a Multilingual ESL Classroom

Erica Sandlund

Pia Sundqvist

Karlstad University

With an interest in the pedagogical and interactional implications of ESL teachers’ language selections in task-based classroom interaction, we analyze teachers’ responses to student-initiated questions and the orientations to the local context displayed in such language choices. The study is based on recordings from a multilingual ESL classroom in Sweden.

9:55 – 10:10

Coffee/Tea Break (GDH 177)

10:10 – 10:35

Clients’ Requests for Medication Changes in Psychiatry

Galina Bolden

Beth Angell

Alexa Hepburn

Rutgers University

We examine the negotiation of treatment decisions in consultations between a psychiatrist and their clients with severe mental illnesses (schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, etc.). Using CA, we analyze how clients request changes in their medication regimen, e.g., requests to eliminate or lower dosages of psychotropic medications.

10:40 – 11:05

Laughter and the Navigation of Score Challenges in Peer Review Meetings

Joshua Raclaw

West Chester University

Cecilia Ford

Elizabeth Pier

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Using CA, we examine how participants in grant review meetings challenge scores that other reviewers have assigned. We focus on the organization of shared laughter in response to challenges and the potential for laughter to not only manage episodes of disagreement, but to also motivate score change.

11:10 – 12:10

Invited Lecture

Enacting Connection: An Emerging Collection

Cecilia Ford

University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:10 – 2:10

Lunch in the Neighborhood

2:10 – 2:35

Physical Abuse and the Discursive Construction of Morality

Kristen Lindblom

University of California, Los Angeles

This study investigates the discursive construction and negotiation of moral accountability in the context of physical abuse among recovering heroin addicts. Using discourse and conversation analytic methods, this research illustrates the on-going management of self-representation with an orientation towards the constant goal of building oneself as a moral and rational actor.

2:40 – 3:05

Knowing More or Less? The Problematic Distinction between Epistemic Status and Epistemic Stance

Michael Lynch

Cornell University

This paper critically re-examines transcribed conversations used for documenting a recent and highly influential treatment of the role of “epistemics” in the organization of conversational interaction. The focus is on the application of a distinction between “epistemic stance” and “epistemic status” in analyses of fragments of recorded conversation.

3:10 – 3:35

Assessment Sequences in Epistemic CA

Doug Macbeth

Ohio State University

Jean Wong

The College of New Jersey

This paper examines the play of “assessments” in the Epistemic CA literature for its continuities and innovations. We find continuities in the general orientation to adjacently paired turns, but striking departures in the re-assignment of the objects of upgraded and downgraded assessments to the speaker’s epistemic entitlement to produce them.

3:35 – 3:50

Coffee/Tea Break (GDH 177)

3:50 – 4:15

Knowledge and Recognitional Reference in Professional Colloquy

Jonas Ivarsson

University of Gothenburg

This paper targets matters of knowledge in professional colloquy by focusing on the deployment of recognitional reference in design work. Different reference forms are used as an entry point into what is treated as shared or not shared between interacting parties. Data comes from recordings of architectural design meetings.

4:20 – 4:45

Speakers’ Responsive Behavior in L2 Conversation

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm

Ohio State University

The paper demonstrates how German L2 speakers’ response turns to wh- questions contain the acknowledgement token ja (yes) in the initial position, even though the question does not elicit a yes/no answer. The analysis suggests that the token ja (yes) in turn-initial position functions as a discourse marker rather than an acknowledgement token.

4:50 – 5:15

Incorporating Learner Interests into the Classroom: A Local Accomplishment

Nadja Tadic

Teachers College, Columbia University

5:20 – 5:45

The Character of Disputing and Resuming Play in Pickup Basketball

Michael DeLand

Yale University

This paper analyzes video data of a rule dispute during a pickup basketball game. It draws on conversation analytic techniques and immersive participant observation ethnography. I show how enduring characterological and interpersonal stakes are reflected in and shape the local sequential environment in which players collectively resume play.

5:45 – 6:45

Reception (GDH 177)

8:30 – 8:55

Student Bodies as Accountable Signs in Activity-Bound Spatiotemporal Frames in a U.S. Classroom

Adrienne Isaac

Georgetown University

This paper explores the socialization of work-time behavior through two activity-bound spatiotemporal frames centered around an elementary school teacher’s monitoring of students’ displays of engagement in classwork at their workgroups. This research merges the notions of activities and frames with participants’ reflexive coordination of action within and across space and time.

9:00 – 9:25

Social Interactions and Language Courses for Specific Purposes: Data-Based Instruction for Spanish for Medical Professions

Victoria Abad Rabat

Luziris Pineda Turi

Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, Rice University

The teaching of language courses for specific purposes can benefit from the use of naturally-occurring data in the teaching of interactional competence through guided language analysis. This pedagogical tool gives students access to data that is more closely related to the type of social interactions they will ultimately have to participate in within their field of choice.

9:30 – 9:55

Interventionist Conversation Analysis in Aviation: Improving Instructor Talk and Student Radio Skills

William Tuccio

National Transportation Safety Board

Maurice Nevile

University of Southern Denmark

Joining interest in interventionist CA, recordings of people learning to fly are analyzed with the ultimate aim to improve flight instructor effectiveness, and build an interactive radio communications trainer for student pilots. The study uses the Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) (Stokoe, 2011) to create training interventions.

9:55 – 10:10

Coffee Break

10:10 – 10:35

“Students of Concern”: Enregistering Crisis on College Campuses

Mariaelena Bartesaghi

Zoe Fine

Grace Peters

University of South Florida

I employ a diverse set of written discourse data to analyze how the phrase “students of concern” works intertextually and interdiscursively as an institutional register of crisis. “Concern” mobilizes a dynamic of flagging students on academic campuses for surveillance and intervention, rationalizing it in terms of academic success, and rational benevolence.

10:40 – 11:05

Personalizing the Help-Seeking Experience: Call Openings with “Regular” Callers on a Crisis Help Line

Stephen DiDomenico

State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Using conversation analysis, we examine how callers to a crisis help line present themselves as “regulars” in call openings. We focus on how the organization of call openings embody more personal institutional relationships between callers and call takers and the relational aspects of this typically anonymous mental health institution.

11:10 – 11:35

Collaborative Turn Building and Categorization Work for a “Report” in Augmented Reality (AR) Games

John Hellermann

Steve Thorne

Portland State University

Conversation analysis methods from video-recorded interactions are used to illustrate sequential and membership categorization practices participants use to co-construct a hybrid genre of spoken text in an underspecified augmented reality game activity.

11:40 – 12:40

Invited Lecture

 Accomplishing "Socialization" in Family Mealtimes: From Asking to Admonishing

Alexa Hepburn

Rutgers University

12:40 – 2:15

Lunch in the Neighborhood

2:15 – 2:40

Verbal and Bodily-Visual Practices of Displaying Solidarity and Colleague Support in the Staff Break Room

Maarit Siromaa

Marika Helisten

University of Oulu

This study examines recurrent situated verbal and bodily-visual practices (e.g., collaborative departures, resonating tellings) as central elements in building colleague support and solidarity in the staff break room. Such multimodal practices facilitate synchronized collaborative achievements and shared experiences at the interface of work and leisure.

2:45 – 3:10

Private Speech and Co-Construction of a Story in Bilingual Children’s Peer Talk

Younhee Kim

National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University

The study examines two Korean-English bilingual children’s interaction in a play group collected over a one-year period. The data shows how the two children, engaged in a pretend play, traverse between private speech and conversation, whereby they build a collaborative story.

3:15 – 3:40

Second Language Conversation in the Homestay: Managing “Expert” Candidate Solutions to Learner-Initiated Word Searches

Christopher Van Booven

New York University

This paper examines ordinary conversations between a Spanish language learner and her Spanish-proficient host mother. Analyses focus on the sequential trajectories of learner-initiated word searches in which the host mother supplies an ill-fitting candidate solution for the searched-for word. During such sequences, participants often observably orient to differential language expertise.

3:40 – 3:55

Coffee/Tea Break (GDH 177)

3:55 – 4:20

Collaborative Identification by Coaches and Athletes in Nordic Ski Technique Analysis

Edward Reynolds

University of New Hampshire

Raleigh Goessling

In this paper we investigate the way in which athletes align with coaches’ feedback, showing how athletes participate in their own instruction. Drawing on data of coaching feedback in Nordic ski training, we illustrate athletes’ responses to coaching actions in low participation, co-participating, and high participation styles.

4:25 – 4:50

Stance and Affect in the Organization of Basketball Coaching Corrections

Bryn Evans

Auckland University of Technology

Correction activities in basketball training sessions are designed to shape players’ conduct on the court. At times, coaches produce corrections that are also hearable as rebukes or complaints. This study explores affective displays in correction sequences, showing how coaches display their stances toward triggering events and thereby attend to institutional tasks and local moral order.

4:55 – 5:20

Which Interactional Features May Be Identified as Indicators of Achieved Mutual Trust?

Mie Femø Nielsen

University of Copenhagen

Mutual trust is an interactional achievement. This paper explores micro-level methods to build trust while interacting. We claim that smoothly and rapidly progressing interaction may indicate high mutual trust, while glitches and interactional cautiousness may indicate less trust. Different conversation analytic methods are applied to data collected at international companies.

5:20 – 5:25

Closing