Sam Schirm and Verónica González Temer
With ICCA 2026 now behind us and a new academic term quickly approaching, we’re sending out this shorter, two-part newsletter issue. Speaking of ICCA: We in the Publications Committee are hard at work on a special ICCA newsletter issue, so keep your eyes out for it!
In her squib, Andrea Rodriguez explores how members of Spanish-speaking families negotiate whether or not something is beneficial or detrimental to co-family members. Using multimodal CA, Andrea analyzes two extracts in which one family member claims entitlement 1) to refuse another’s request for a piece of candy and 2) to suggest a family co-member avoid wearing inappropriate footwear at work. In these moments, family members negotiate their entitlement to “grant, control, and decide what counts as beneficial for the [other]”, that is, they negotiate what counts as ‘caring’. Rodriguez ends the squib with a reflection of the linguistic resources Spanish offers its speakers to negotiate this ‘benefactive order’, pointing to potential new areas of research. Read Andrea’s squib here.
In our second piece, Jenny Stock reports on the 25th Conference on Conversation and Discourse Analysis, which took place at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim from March 25th to 27th (2026). This year’s conference topic was “Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods”, and was the first time the conference took place in English. In her report, Jenny discusses how the contributions of the conference approached technology as an object of study – that is, as a medium of interaction (e.g., in digital interactions, VR), an object in interaction (e.g., smartphones, smart appliances) and a co-interactant (e.g., AI, robots) – as well as emerging technologies for research on interaction. Jenny also highlights the diversity of contribution formats offered at the conference, from the typical presentations, keynotes and workshop, to the fast-paced methodological research talk. Read all about the conference here.
Announcements
Turn-taking workshop at VU Amsterdam 2027
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands will host a 5-day workshop on turn-taking,3-7 May 2027. The workshop will be facilitated by Galina Bolden, Elliott Hoey, Chase Raymond, and Jeff Robinson, and is based on the forthcoming book Turn-taking in Social Interaction (Cambridge University Press) by Bolden, Raymond, and Robinson.
The deadline for applications is 30 September 2026.
More information and application form: https://forms.gle/p2YetUcZ1p7N2RcYA
IPRA 2027 – 20th International Pragmatics Conference
The 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPRA 2027) will be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027. The conference theme is “Building Bridges: Understanding and Mitigating Antagonism, Conflict, and Polarisation.”
The deadline for panel proposals was 5 June 2026, while individual paper and poster proposals are due by 15 October 2026.
More information and the Call for Papers:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
IIEMCA 2027 – International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Conference
IIEMCA 2027 will be held at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 6 to 9 July 2027. The conference welcomes presentations in ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, membership categorisation analysis, discursive psychology, ethnography, and related fields.
The Call for Presentation Abstracts opens on 1 September 2026 and closes on 23 October 2026 at midnight SAST. Submissions should include a title, keywords, and a 500-word abstract.
More information and submission details:
https://www.iiemca27.org/calls
LW2027 – 8th Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations
The 8th Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations (LW2027) will be held in Saarbrücken, Germany, from 2 to 3 April 2027. The workshop brings together research on laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations from areas including Conversation Analysis, phonetics, pragmatics, gesture studies, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and human-machine interaction. Keynote speakers are Catherine Pelachaud and Leelo Keevallik.
The Call for Extended Abstracts opens on 1 September 2026 and closes on 23 November 2026. Notifications are expected by 18 January 2027.
More information:
https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lw2027/home
Particles in Interaction 2027
The Particles in Interaction Conference will be held at the University of Oslo, Norway, from 2 to 4 June 2027. The conference focuses on particles and other minimal resources in talk-in-interaction, including interjections, modal particles, fixed expressions, non-lexical vocalisations, gestures, facial expressions, and multimodal combinations. Plenary speakers are Galina Bolden, Mark Dingemanse, and Marja-Leena Sorjonen.
The submission portal opens on 1 October 2026, and the deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 1 February 2027.
More information:
https://cas-nor.no/events/particles-interaction
13ICOM – 13th International Conference on Multimodality
The 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland, from 1 to 4 June 2027. The conference explores multimodality across different fields and approaches, with a particular emphasis on fostering dialogue between diverse theories and methods. A doctoral consortium for early-career researchers will take place on 1 June, followed by the main conference from 2 to 4 June 2027.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 September 2026. Submissions should be anonymous and no longer than 250 words, excluding references.
More information:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multimodality