Alexa Hepburn

@alexahepburn.bsky.social

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Researcher affiliated with Rutgers and Loughborough Universities, interested in use & development of conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Views: coherence-based; responsive to new ideas. #EMCA #FBPE #FBR #AcademicSky .. more

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Alexa Hepburn is professor of communication at Rutgers University, and honorary professor in conversation analysis in the Social Sciences Department at Loughborough University.

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · Dec 5

Jeffersonian transcription illustrated in sound and video. NCRM wanted 20 minutes; I gave them 57 and I still missed loads of things!

The page contains some short accompanying exercises too. Hopefully it will be a helpful resource for all.

NCRM resource | Decoding Human Interaction: Transcription Conventions for Conversation Analysis by A...

NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation

www.ncrm.ac.uk

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

People fly or dial in from all over the world.

Still great fun.

#EMCA

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d

It's nearly time for CA day!

I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.

Here's the registration link and terrific programme:

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

conference programme:
Time Title Presenter
09:30 – 9:55 Registration, tea and coffee
09:55 – 10:00 Welcome to CA Day
10:00 -10:30 Does Silence Speak Volumes? Accounting for Silences during GPs’ Background Tasks in Telephone Consultations Gilian Noord | Alison Pilnick | Elizabeth Stokoe | Tony Avery | University of Nottingham | Manchester Metropolitan University | London School of Economics and Political Science | University of Nottingham
10:30 -11:00 Whose choice is it? (Shared) decision-making in conversations between social workers and people with learning disabilities. Virginia Calabria | Joe Webb | Brett Smith | Durham University | University of Bristol | Durham University
11.00 – 11:45 Keynote 1: Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder
11:45-12:15 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025
12:15- 12:45 Are Family Mealtimes Insitutional? Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities
12:45 – 13:15 On the three-partedness of lists Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat d’Alacant
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB) or bring you own!
14:30– 15:00 When Children Take the Floor: Children’s Self-Selection and Doctors’ Recipiency in Pediatric Consultations in China Luyang Zhou | University of York
15:00- 15:30 Lessons learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction Ole Pütz | Bielefeld University
15:30 – 16:00 A conversation analytic study of culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients Sanaa Hyder | University of Manchester
16:00 – 16:30 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025
16:30-17:00 Managing Emotion Displays in Early Childhood Kathryn Jordin | Loughborough University
17:00 – 17:45 Invited talk 2 Deborah Chinn | King’s College London

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 3d

The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social

Book cover Emotionography. Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice. Authors Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn. Publisher APA. Abstract graphic motif; clean typographic layout.

Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday Tim!

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 12d

Oulu, Finland is a welcoming place to work, with a large, friendly and highly expert group of #EMCA researchers

Iira Rautiainen @iira.bsky.social · 12d

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities

We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature (English unit) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is located in the research proje

oulunyliopisto.varbi.com

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 18d

Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas.
#discursivepsychology #EMCA

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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · 18d

Interdisciplinary symposium on human-AI interaction taking place at University of Warwick next month:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!

Building Bridges

Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction

warwick.ac.uk

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 19d

How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation?
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess

www.tandfonline.com

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 20d

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?

Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.

Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.

Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.

More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...

#EMCA

CA for Beginners January 2026 - emcawiki

emcawiki.net

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · Oct 10

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations"

Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

Screenshot of Patient Education and Counseling article titled: Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations: A conversation analytic study. Available here in text form: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109284

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · Oct 10

🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective

- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

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ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · Sep 29

📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7

Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · Sep 23

Whatever their faults, universities need to be defended in the current anti-intellectual environment. @thetimes.com
timeshighered.bsky.social

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · Sep 23

#1
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...

Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · Apr 28

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · Sep 16

Reposting: Please join us at Rutgers Communication dept - open rank position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Comm! Apply by Sept 25; contact me with any Qs #emca jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)

The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...

jobs.rutgers.edu

Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca

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Gene Lerner @glerner.bsky.social · Sep 4

This olde exchange concerning the place of ‘social-structural’ considerations in descriptions of the organizations of talk-in-interaction was recently brought to mind. (Perhaps the ‘obscurity’ involved was there to shield the suggestion from promiscuous application!) #EMCA

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LANSI @lansi2024.bsky.social · Sep 1

new paper on because-prefaced utterances (BPUs) in child interaction: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social #lansibunch #emca

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ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · Aug 26

A reminder from @marinanc.bsky.social that there is an #EMCA group on LinkedIn as well that would be nice to reactivate: www.linkedin.com/groups/2276942

LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com

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Elliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨

on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society

🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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David Cochrane @dlgcochrane.bsky.social · Aug 21

Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training

Communicating risk in high-stakes settings can prevent avoidable deaths. Communicating, assessing and managing risk is a critical part of many healthc…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Aug 20

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology

Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#emca #linguistics #sts

View of Radboud Campus in Nijmegen, brutalist Erasmus building hosting the Faculty of Arts & the Futures of Language project in the foreground

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · Aug 19

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · Aug 5

The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, as it happens at the café counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky

Acknowledging, recognising and responding to one another: ordinary hospitality in the café. Authors: Eric Laurier & Sylvaine Tuncer. Geoforum, Vol 165

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LANSI @lansi2024.bsky.social · Aug 1

🥳#lansi2025 program is now live 👏tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen…

pre-register now and see you in 🍁in the Big Apple 🍎 tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen… @iscaupdates.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Nov 14

Welcome new followers. My book, Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain, is out February next year. Here are the book's epigraphs, one by the great Liverpool historian Tony Lane, another by the wonderful contemporary poet @joriegraham.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · Jul 14

Here you go: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mlc4k...

www.dropbox.com

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jul 9

Whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage

Covers of 4 books:
Bridle, James. 2022. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Franklin, Ursula M. 1999. The Real World of Technology. Revised edition. CBC Massey Lectures. Toronto: Anansi.
Illich, Ivan. 1973. Tools for Conviviality. Open Forum. London: Calder and Boyars.
Le Guin, Ursula K. 2019. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. London: Ignota.

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · Jul 4

📢 Lboro CA Day 2025

A fantastic day of #EMCA presentations & networking.

📍 Lboro/hybrid
📅 15 Dec

Register now!
Call for abstracts open!

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

@darg-sessions.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @lborocrcc.bsky.social

CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) – DARG

darg.lboro.ac.uk

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · Jul 1

🎯 What’s on at the main conference on 18 July?

✔️ PhD Presentations in CA
✔️ Talks from:
🔬 Paul – Applications of CA to Medical Interactions
🧩 Lorenza – Multimodal Conversation Analysis
✔️ Peer Networking

🌍 Join us: store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · Jun 25

💡 York Conference on Conversation Analysis — Registration is OPEN!

18 July — Main Conference (PhD presentations + invited speakers Paul & Lorenza)
19 July — CA Workshop with Paul & Lorenza

£20 conference | £35 conf + workshop | £10 online

⏳ Register: store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

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