In 2009, a Conversation Analysis Group (CAG) was established by a group of PhD students at the University of Melbourne to discuss issues in transcription and analysis of talk-in-interaction. These sessions are attended by academics from across faculties at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and LaTrobe University who share an interest in conversation analysis.

Workshops are held on the last Friday of each month (4.30 – 6.00pm).

Colleagues interested in joining any session are welcome and should contact Sascha Rixon in the School of Languages & Linguistics (s.rixon@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au) or Amelia Church in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (achurch@unimelb.edu.au) for further details.

Carly W. Butler, Richard Fitzgerald, and
Rod Gardner

1-14   Branching out: Ethnomethodological approaches to communication

Alec McHoul

14-22   What are we doing when we analyse conversation? Keynote Address, ‘Branching Out’: The 6th Australasian Symposium on Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis.

Reece Plunkett

23-44  Fashioning the feasible: Categorisation and social change.

Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley, and
Carly W. Butler

45-64  Omnirelevance and interactional context.

Rod Gardner, Richard Fitzgerald, and Ilana Mushin

65-90   The underlying orderliness in turn-taking: Examples from Australian talk.

Susan Danby, Carly W. Butler, and
Michael Emmison

91-114   When ‘listeners can’t talk’: Comparing active listening in opening sequences of telephone and online counselling.

Barbara Adkins and Jason Nasarczyk

115-140   Asynchronicity and the ‘time envelope’ of online annotation: The case of the photosharing website, Flickr.

Appendix.

The Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health will award a PhD scholarship in 2010 for a project entitled:

Understanding Men’s Health Service Needs: Analysis of Men’s Use of Telephone Health Helplines.

The Freemasons Foundation PhD scholar will receive a scholarship that is equivalent to a Faculty/Divisional PhD scholarship with an annual top up of $2,000. Candidates should have a strong undergraduate degree and experience in conversation analytic research. For further details contact the Principal Supervsior, Associate Professor Amanda LeCouteur.

For more information see the Scholarship details

Edward Reynolds, a PHD student at the University of Queensland, talking on the student radio JACradio about ethnomethodology.

This new book is situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface betweengovernment, media and the public, highlighting the increasingimportance placed on media channelled ‘public opinion’ as part of ademocratic process. It will appeal to a broad audience in social andpublic policy, political communication, journalism and politics. Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled ‘public opinion’ as part of a democratic process. It will appeal to a broad audience in social and public policy, political communication, journalism and politics.
The media release with reviewers notes is available here and the full volume is available for purchase here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
May 6-8, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by:

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA)
at the University of California, Los Angeles

and

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA)
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers

Charles Briggs
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Kramsch
German, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Tanya Stivers
Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute, Amsterdam

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and
culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse
analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional
sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.
Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students and
faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic
interaction are encouraged. Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be
published in the conference proceedings, Crossroads of Language, Interaction,
and Culture, Volume 8, 2010.

Abstracts are due no later than January 15, 2010, by electronic submission only. The
submission guidelines are provided below and on the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/abstractsubmit.htm).

Please provide the following information:
- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification
- The title of the paper
- Any equipment requirements
- An abstract no longer than 500 words
- Any additional comments

Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper. Briefly
discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research
and the work’s relevance to developments in the field. You may include a short
example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated,
however tentative.

Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by
scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology,
applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be
accepted based on reviewers’ evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is January 15, 2010.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or nonacceptance
will be sent via e-mail in March 2010.
Conference registration is free at the CLIC-GSA website:

The last in our series of introductions to Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis features Fabienne Chevalier from the University of York St John talking about Conversation Analysis from the perspective of linguistics. Unfortunately due to some technical problems this post is shorter than intended.

I’ll be following up these videos with a series on coming into the field of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis featuring PHD students and new scholars in the field, and perhaps a few stray videos here and there.

Next in the series of IPRA diaries introducing the basic ideas of Ethnomethodology we have Jack Bilmes from the University of Hawaii talking to me at IPRA 2009.

These are featured and hosted through AIEMCA’s youtube channel. You are encouraged to use these videos on your own websites through the channel, but please ensure you give credit and a link to http://aiemca.net/

The members page has been updated the inactive members have been removed and some new faces have been added. If you have been taken off in error, or you are new Australasian academic or research student please let us know at aiemca@aiemca.net and we can add your name to the list. There is no cost to join and all we need is your website address (academic preferably, but a simple bio website will do). Research students are encouraged to join.

Some upcoming conferences, the International Sociology Association World Congress, July 11-17, 2010 in Gothenburg Sweden and the International Communication Association Conference in Singapore June 22-26, 2010 in Singapore. Both are expected to include significant EM/CA contributions, submissions for each close soon so check the websites and book your flights!