Australia: symposium on Conversation Analysis (November 2006)

Conversation Analysis, the topic of the
symposium below, studies the patterns and 
structures that people use in all kinds of 
spoken discourse.  

So, conventions of interaction in a courtroom 
setting or in a classroom or in a dinner 
table conversation can vary in important
ways.

One example of something useful (for teaching)
I learned from a presentation of research
in conversation analysis:

In the US academic classroom, you can ask
some questions without apologizing for
interrupting ("How do you spell that?")
but others you must apologize for ("I'm
sorry, I didn't understand when you 
explained X a few minutes ago.  Could 
you explain it again?" but not just
"Explain X again.")

The difference seems to be whether you
are, in a sense, turning the direction
of the lecture "backwards."  After the
presentation, I realized that I needed
to explain this convention (which of 
course I followed, but had not been
aware of) to my students.

Anyway, for folks who may be in Australia
at the end of November, this symposium
on conversational analysis might be
interesting:

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5th Australian Conversational Analysis 
Symposium

Date: 24-Nov-2006 - 26-Nov-2006
Location: Albury, NSW, Australia
Contact: Libby Clark
Contact Email: eclark @ csu.edu.au

Meeting Description:

The 5th Australian CA Symposium will 
be held at Charles Sturt University 
in Albury from 24 - 26 November 2006.

This symposium will bring together 
people interested in research in 
conversation analysis.  It will 
provide a community of experience, 
giving participants opportunities 
to present research, to share ideas, 
do data analysis, discuss issues in 
transcription and analysis, and to 
develop connections with colleagues. 
 
The symposium will involve 
presentations and data analysis 
sessions from participants and 
keynote talks from two invited 
speakers: 
Anna Filipi and Susan Danby

The Discourse Analysis Group from 
the ANU is running another CA 
Symposium. The aim of the symposium 
is to analyse data and discuss 
issues facing contemporary CA, as 
well as giving us an opportunity to 
keep in touch with one another.

We would like to invite anyone 
working within the field of CA to 
attend. We would also like to call 
for expressions of interest to run 
a data session. It is anticipated 
that data sessions will be an hour 
in length.In your abstract you 
should indicate the sort of data 
you wish to present and flag any 
important issues and themes that 
emerge in your data.

Enquiries and expressions of 
interest:

Intending data presenters should 
send details and an abstract of 
around 250 words to Libby Clark 
(eclark @ csu.edu.au) before 20th 
October, 2006.  Non-presenting 
participants are welcome and should 
also register interest with 
Libby Clark (eclark @ csu.edu.au) 
before 31 October 2006.











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