讲座1: 2024年11月16日 08:15-09:15，外国语学院314
Interactional Policies as Practices: Insights from Conversation Analysis
Abstract: While ‘policy’ is a familiar concept to social scientists who investigate contexts as diverse as medical visits, classrooms, and family dinnertime conversations, the focus in such research is often dedicated to what the interactional policy ‘is’ or ‘should be’ in a particular environment. In this talk, my aim is to illustrate that what a policy ‘is’ cannot be separated from how it is implemented by participants - i.e., the concrete interactional practices through which participants enact the interactional policy in real-time social life. Drawing on data from a range of different situated contexts (e.g., surgical consultations for breast cancer, language classrooms, disputes in public spaces), it will be shown that approaching policy issues from the perspective of Conversation Analysis - viewing them as on-the-ground participants’ concerns and achievements - offers a variety of analytic benefits.
讲座2: 2024年11月18日 15:30-17:20，外国语学院314
Tense in Time (ongoing collaboration with Rebecca Clift, University of Essex)
Abstract: Across the diverse approaches taken in the literature on tense, there is overwhelming consensus that “face-to-face conversation” (Fillmore 1976:92) provides the “canonical situation of utterance” (Lyons 1977:637) which theories of tense should be working to account for. Despite this recognition of the centrality of ‘conversation’ for a theory of tense, however, examination of the actual temporal unfolding of real-time conversation remains absent fromaccounts of its motivations. In this session, we examine some specific tense phenomena that only reveal themselves in empirical conversational data, and we discuss what implications this may have for our theorizing of tense. At a more general level, this session aims to illustrate how CA methods, and interactional data, can be used both to interrogate longstanding claims (e.g., in linguistics), as well as to pose new questions about the nature of grammar as a participants’ resource.
讲座3: 2024年11月20日15:30 -17:20，外国语学院314
Repairing “(Mis)understandings”: Positions, Procedures, and Components(ongoing collaboration with Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University)
Abstract: This session will begin with a brief overview of the social organization of repair—that is, the infrastructure, practices, and procedures that participants use to manage troubles of speaking, hearing, and understanding in interaction. We will then focus specifically on problems of understanding, highlighting the positions and components speakers use to address (mis)understandings of different sorts. As a whole, the session aims to highlight that “understanding” (and intersubjectivity more broadly) is not a wholly ‘psychological’ or ‘cognitive’ phenomenon, but rather a social one, practically achieved and operated on by participants in the service of social action.
讲座4: 2024年11月25日15:30-17:20，外国语学院314
Analyzing Action: The Case of “Apologies” (ongoing collaboration with Guodong Yu & Yaxin Wu, Ocean University of China)
Abstract: The aim of this session is to illustrate the CA research process as a whole - albeit briefly! - using as an example an ongoing study of apologies in Mandarin (as well as some examples from American and British English conversation). How would a conversation analyst approach the examination of a social action like ‘apologizing’? What concrete steps might the analyst take? We’ll just quickly touch on data collection and transcription, before focusing on (i) single-case analysis and ‘close looking’, as well (ii) collection-building and -analysis. While we use apologies as an illustrative example, our discussion is applicable to CA research design and methods more broadly.
讲座5: 2024年11月27日15:30-17:20，外国语学院314
[To be determined]
