For over 50 years, John Heritage and Emanuel ‘Manny’ Schegloff were both colleagues and close friends. In this episode, Sophia Fiedller interviews John about the ‘intellectual giant’ that Manny Schegloff was and continues to be to many of us. They talk about his scholarly work, his publications, his teaching, and his implication in the research field of CA of which he was a co-founder together with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson. Interspersed within the interview are short, minute-long testimonials from Manny's students, PhD candidates, and colleagues.

In this interview, Sophia Fiedler (Université de Neuchâtel) asked Susanne and Jörg to talk about their personal histories with EMCA, about how the discipline came to and developed within Germany, and about where they see it going.

In this interview, we asked Melisa to talk to us about her path into CA, about some of her current research what has inspired her over the years.

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen held the position of professor for English linguistics at the University of Konstanz from 1995-2002 and at the University of Potsdam from 2003-2009. From 2009-2013 she was Finland Distinguished Professor for Interactional Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. She is now located in Berlin, Germany. Her recent publications are devoted to the study of prosody and grammar in Interaction, and include monographs and edited volumes such as Interactional Linguistics (co-authored with Margret Selting); Requesting in Social Interaction (co-edited with Paul Drew), and Imperative Turns at Talk (co-edited with Marja-Leena Sorjonen & Liisa Raevaara); as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Chase Raymond

Chase Wesley Raymond holds PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics (2014) and Sociology (2016), both from UCLA, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests lie at the intersection of language and (different facets of) social identity and normativity, in both ordinary and institutional interaction, with a particular emphasis on grammar. His research has appeared in journal outlets across the fields of Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, Communication Studies, and Medicine, and he is author (with Luis Manuel Olguín) of Análisis de la Conversación: Fundamentos, Metodología y Alcances (Routledge 2022).

Bogdana Huma

Bogdana Huma is an Assistant Professor in the department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Originally, her background was in psychology and sociology, which she studied at the University of Bucharest in Romania. She discovered conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology (DP) quite late, while she was doing her PhD in sociology, and she was captivated by the originality of these new approaches that could make sense of apparently ‘messy’ everyday interaction. So far, her research has used CA, DP and, on occasion, ethnomethodology and membership categorisation analysis to examine commercial encounters, gender inequalities, and, more recently, healthcare interactions.

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Our theme music is “Ethnomethodology” by Peter Daniel off of the album Convulsive Listening (Spotify, Apple Music)

Leelo works in the field of interactional linguistics, and has published on the interactional use of particles in different languages, as well as core features of grammar for interaction, such as projection and clause combining. In more current work, she investigates with a team of researchers non-lexical vocalizations.

In this interview, we asked Leelo to talk to us about her path into CA, about some of her current research what has inspired her over the years. We are pleased to bring you this interview, which was conducted asynchronously, meaning we sent Leelo questions and she recorded her responses.

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Our theme music is “Ethnomethodology” by Peter Daniel off of the album Convulsive Listening (Spotify, Apple Music)

Professor Waring’s extensive and innovative conversation analytic work in applied linguistics has revealed how core conversational structures of reference, recipiency, accounts, assessments, and questioning are managed in, and constitutive of the classroom environment.

Some of her key research findings from this work are collected in her 2016 book Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction: Insights from Conversation Analysis, and her broader methodological contributions include her 2018 book, both published with Routledge, entitled Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How they Answer them.

In this interview, we asked Hansun to talk to us about her route into CA, about how she came to set up LANSI, and heard about some of her current research including work exploring language socialisation from a conversation analytic perspective, and an edited collection of critical perspectives in CA that she is developing with Nadja Tadic. 

Doug Maynard is Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His ethnomethodological and conversation analytic work has explored fundamental structures of everyday topical talk and news delivery, alongside his foundational applied research on institutional forms of talk such as, e.g., plea bargaining in legal settings, and on the use of research instruments such as surveys, diagnostic interviews. 

Jason Turowetz is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Siegen. His research addresses questions of meaning, interaction, and identity in social theory, communication, and cultural sociology, specifically focusing on the experiences of people in socially marginal identities, and on themes of power, resistance and moral decision making in interaction. His groundbreaking work at the Garfinkel Archive has been uncovering new lineages within and connections between ethnomethodology, philosophy, and social theory. 

A great deal more could be said about each of their individual research, but in this interview the focus is on their new book - Autistic Intelligence, and on their collaboration. Alongside their methodological contributions connecting ethnomethodology, social theory, and phenomenology, they have collaborated on a rich collection of applied EM/CA publications focusing on the interactional practices associated with autism spectrum disorder and the sociology of diagnosis, including explorations of sequential, narrative, and categorical structures, diagnostic processes, and the social production of medical records.

Alongside his fundamental conversation analytic work on social identity, explanations and accounts, formulations, and his significant range of methodological contributions over the years, his extensive applied conversation analytic work in the field that’s come to be known as 'atypical communication' has involved applying conversation analysis to understand how adults with intellectual disabilities engage in interaction, and how conversational practices can promote discourses of agency for people with profound intellectual disabilities. His work on police interviews has explored questioning practices, and has extended his work on atypical communication to understand how vulnerable and disabled people manage questions of fault and blame around allegations of sexual assault. 

His 2011 collection with palsgrave macmillan on applied conversation analysis synthesised a range of studies that demonstrate the power of CA for not only describing, but also shaping the institutional and mundane settings that constitute our experience of everyday social life.

References

Boas, E. V. E. (2017). Analyzing Agamemnon: conversation analysis and particles in Greek tragic dialogue. Classical Philology, 112(4), 411-434.

Wootton, A. (1997). Interaction and the Development of Mind (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511519895

If you have ideas or want to participate in the ISCA newsletter or our podcasts and other projects, please go to https://conversationanalysis.org and reach out to us. We would love your input in what we are building, which we hope is a truly international connection amongst our EM and CA communities.

Our theme music is “Ethnomethodology” by Peter Daniel off of the album Convulsive Listening (Spotify, Apple Music)

If you have ideas or want to participate in the ISCA newsletter or our podcasts and other projects, please go to https://conversationanalysis.org and reach out to us. We would love your input in what we are building, which we hope is a truly international connection amongst our EM and CA communities.

Our theme music is “Ethnomethodology” by Peter Daniel off of the album Convulsive Listening (Spotify, Apple Music)