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Elizabeth Stokoe: “Conversation analysis has many applications, from Silicon Valley to medicine”

Anyone who has ever interacted with chatbots knows how frustrating they can be. The way to improve bot performance may be coming from an academic field called conversation analysis. This is the are…

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Date: 12th July 2024 Location: University of York, Campus West, The Treehouse Abstract submission deadline: 5th April 2024 Invited speakers: Rebecca Clift (University of Essex) and Elliott Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Respecifying social change: the obsolescence of practices and the transience of technology

This article proposes that social change, a fundamental topic in sociological theory, can be productively revisited by attending to studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA). We argue that the corpus of EM/CA research, from the 1960s until the present day, provides details of the constitutive and identifying aspects of practices and activities that gradually transform into descriptions of obsolescent practices and activities, and that this corpus can be revisited to learn about the ways people used to do things. Taking landline and mobile telephony as a case in point, we show that the subtle details of conversational practices are anchored in the technology used as part of the contemporary lifeworld, and that they stand for the particularities of routine social structures of their time period. We also discuss the temporal aspects of the competences required on the part of members and analysts to make sense of encountered practices in terms of their ordinary recognizability and interactional consequentiality, pointing to the anchoring of social life in its historical time. Finally, we conclude by considering different ways of respecifying social change by attending to various kinds of historicity and obsolescence of social praxis.

MA Applied Linguistics

Understand how we use and acquire language to solve real-life problems and interact with others throughout the lifespan across different settings and cultures.

Ph.d.-kurs i prosodi og interaksjon, 6.-8. desember 2023 – HFILN9001D – Universitetet i Oslo

Emnet gir avansert kunnskap om hvilken rolle prosodiske og enkelte fonetiske fenomener spiller for fortolkning og meningsskaping i interaksjon på norsk. Kurset er rettet mot PhD-kandidater som arbeider med muntlige interaksjonsdata på norsk eller andre skandinaviske språk, men som ikke har inngående kjennskap til prosodi fra før. Studenter på MA-nivå og etablerte forskere er invitert til å delta, men kan ikke få uttelling i form av studiepoeng.