Month: October 2015

Hye Ri “Stephanie” Kim, UCLA

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http://hstephaniekim.squarespace.com/ What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? Many early studies in conversation analysis on turn-taking (e.g., Goodwin, 1979, 1980; Jefferson, 1984) have inspired me and shaped my thinking as an LSI researcher, but the study that had the strongest impact on me and still continues to be inspirational is A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation by Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974)....
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Elizabeth Molina-Markham, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? One of the pieces that has had a strong influence on my own research thus far has been Bauman’s (1983) Let Your Words Be Few, Symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers.  I first learned of this work during my first semester as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while serving as a TA for Professor Donal Carbaugh.  During one class early in the semester, Profess...
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Emma Betz, Kansas State University

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http://emmabetz.weebly.com/ What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? I remember as both challenging and inspirational an early (1981) article by Peter Auer, "Zur indexikalitätsmarkierenden Funktion der demonstrativen Artikelform in deutschen Konversationen" ("On the use of the demonstrative article as a marker of indexicality in German conversation") – challenging, because I read it very early in my conversation analytic (CA) training; inspiring, becau...
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Cynthia Gordon, Syracuse University

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What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? Goffman’s “Footing” was (and continues to be) an inspiration for me. I first read it as an undergraduate enrolled in a discourse analysis course taught by Deborah Keller-Cohen at the University of Michigan. I recall being struck by the scene described in the essay and Goffman’s analysis of it: After an Oval Office bill-signing ceremony, news reporter Helen Thomas is interactionally transformed; her footing change...
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Ryan Bisel, University of Oklahoma

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What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? Taylor and Van Every’s The Emergent Organization. Published in 2000 by Earlbaum. What question you are currently trying to explore? How? Currently, I am playing with this question: What, if any, communication process is both constitutive of organizing and system-entropic? I am trying to answer this question through interaction and discourse analyses of working dyad’s talk. Website: http://www.ou.edu/dep...
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2011 Dissertation Award Nominations

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Deadline: September 15, 2011 The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association will recognize the outstanding dissertation in the field of language and social interaction. Appropriate topics include situated conversation, language use, and embodied interaction in settings such as: classrooms, doctors’ offices, public meetings, work and home, as well as interactions between and across cultural borderlines. Previous awards have gone to studies of discourse p...
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Call for Papers: Electronic Journal of Communication

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Special Issue: Social Construction: Re-Opening the Conversation, Re-Constituting the Possibilities Issue Editor: Mariaelena Bartesaghi, University of South Florida Over the last five years, members of our field have intensified their discussion of social construction with renewed force and purpose. The 2006 National Communication Summer Institute on Social Construction, the creation of a “Communication as Social Construction” division at NCA, a new handbook, an edited collection, and a chapt...
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