Intermediate labour markets (ILMs) provide fixed-term work opportunities and coaching for people in disadvantaged positions markets. We study 46 sequences from six audio-recorded recruitment interviews an ILM job targetted at who have been unemployed a prolonged period. Using ethnomethodological approach to identity, membership categorisation analysis conversation analysis, we how interviewers ...

Despite a wide-spread pedagogical interest and scholarly conviction in the possibilities of educational drama for creating more contextually-situated, engaging, multi-modal L2 learning experiences (Piazzoli, 2018; Stinson & Winston, 2011), there is scarce empirical evidence concerning what actually taking place interactionally classrooms adults. This article presents bottom-up microanalysis...

Using video-recordings from one day of a theater project for young adults, this paper investigates how the meaning novel verbal expressions is interactionally constituted and elaborated over interactional history series activities. We examine director introduces instructs group in Chekhovian technique acting, which based on “imagining with body,” imaginary elements are “brought into existence” ...

This paper considers the application of a micro-analytic approach to critically explore how Muslim women’s Sister’s Circle (SC), based at British university, interactionally resists discourses Islamophobia and othering through humour. I reflect on navigated methodological tensions during my PhD, specifically around context in Conversation Analysis (CA; Schegloff, 1997), benefits synthesising CA...

This study investigates how topics are managed in virtual exchanges between tertiary-level English language learners from Turkey and Kazakhstan. The reports on a previously unexplored interactional device referred to as “rolling the ball back” (RBB) that invites co-participant maintain current topic of discussion through reciprocation question asked previously. Using multimodal conversation ana...

Migrants are often perceived as a group of vulnerable victims, especially within legal context such the one in this study: lawyer–client consultations field immigration law. The literature describes how institutional limitations translate into asymmetric dynamics. linguistic-ethnographic data gathered for study shows, however, that reality is more complex. In operationalizing concept agency, fo...

Abstract In theatre rehearsals, actors can occasionally be seen getting stuck in the play text, which is called blanking. To overcome such textual difficulties and continue with given a prompter verbalize line question, thus contributing to an actor’s word search by prompting. The paper focuses on interactional practices prompters interactionally resolve blanking situations. This study’s data c...

Over the past 6 decades, researchers in conversation analysis have repeatedly shown that everyday social activities such as inviting a friend over, interviewing police suspect, teaching class, or cross-questioning courtroom–are achieved orderly and reproducible ways. Jeffersonian transcription has been refined to both capture crystallize interactionally relevant specifics of how tasks get done....

This paper concerns the interactional dilemma between displaying affiliation and doing being neutral. is highly salient in police interviews with child witnesses where interviewing guidelines encourage officers to take a neutral stance avoid steering children’s stories. In this article, we use conversation analysis analyze childrens’ volunteered accounts of their own role during alleged offense...

The Wizard of Oz method is an increasingly common practice in HCI and CSCW studies as part iterative design processes for interactive systems. Instead designing a fully-fledged system, the 'technical work' key system components completed by human operators yet presented to study participants if computed machine. However, little known about how are interactionally collaboratively achieved situ r...