CA Day 2011
Asymmetries in Interaction

Tom Koole
Aligning caller and call-taker:
the opening phrase of Dutch emergency calls

Søren Beck Neilsen
Asymmetric access to desk-top computers in the clinic:
notes on doctors’ glances at the screen while patients talk

Elisabeth Carter
Asymmetries are no joke: Exploring the
nonreciprocity of police interview laughter

Marco Pino
Talking about medication: the local negotiation of
asymmetrical opportunities of topic management
in interactions between the residents of a psychiatric
centre and their care workers

Giovanni Rossi & Jörg Zinken
“It’s necessary to X” in Italian and Polish:
Managing reasons for action

Trevor Benjamin & Traci Walker
Wait. That ain’t right: addressing epistemic
asymmetry through other-initiated repair

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