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Elliott Hoey
@elliotthoey.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of language and communication at the VU Amsterdam. Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, multimodality (he/him, hɔɪ~hoʊi)
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gio-rossi.bsky.social
1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian
Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta
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July 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
bare minimum for holding a conversation

#emca
(1) Speaker-change recurs, or at least occurs (cf. $4.1, below). (2) Overwhelmingly, one party talks at a time (cf. $4.2). (3) Occurrences of more than one speaker at a time are common, but brief (cf. $4.3). (4) Transitions (from one turn to a next) with no gap and no overlap are common. Together with transitions characterized by slight gap or slight overlap, they make up the vast majority of transitions (cf. $4.4). (5) Turn order is not fixed, but varies (cf. $4.5). (6) Turn size is not fixed, but varies (cf. 44.6). (7) Length of conversation is not specified in advance (cf. $4.7). (8) What parties say is not specified in advance (cf. $4.8). (9) Relative distribution of turns is not specified in advance (cf. $4.9). (10) Number of parties can vary (cf. $4.10). (11) Talk can be continuous or discontinuous (cf. 44.11). (12) Turn-allocation techniques are obviously used. A current speaker may select a next speaker (as when he addresses a question to another party); or parties may self-select in starting to talk (cf. $4.12). (13) Various 'turn-constructional units' are employed; e.g., turns can be projectedly 'one word long', or they can be sentential in length (cf. $4.13). (14) Repair mechanisms exist for dealing with turn-taking errors and violations; e.g., if two parties find themselves talking at the same time, one of them will stop prematurely, thus repairing the trouble (cf. 44.14). Sacks et al. 1974
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
elliotthoey.bsky.social
🚨 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...
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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galinabolden.bsky.social
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)
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
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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lizstokoe.bsky.social
New research and resource from Chase Raymond @saulalbert.bsky.social @elliotthoey.bsky.social et al: The Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI): #OpenAccess database of (depressingly timely) recordings of people being policed for the #language they speak emcawiki.net/CLDI #EMCA
Screenshot of article title, authors, abstract: This article introduces the Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI)—an open-access corpus of transcribed video data, capturing moments where individuals are policed in some way for the language they are speaking or otherwise endorsing while sharing public space (e.g. in stores, restaurants, parking lots, and parks). Despite having thus far largely evaded systematic inquiry, such interactions are illustrative of a particular genre of language policymaking and enforcement that takes place in everyday social life, which the CLDI aims to document and make available for ongoing empirical examination. After presenting the corpus itself, as an initial exploration into some of the practices and actions observable in these data, we describe the recurrent use of Speak English directives, accompanied by nation-state declarative accounts like This is America. Detailed analysis of such turns, and the responses they receive, throws into relief ways that language policies and ideologies can be instantiated, ratified, challenged, defended, and otherwise negotiated in and through the particulars of interactants’ joint conduct. We conclude by describing some future avenues for research, teaching, and public engagement on the basis of the CLDI.* Guardian article about Trump signs executive order designating English as official language of US which an image of a white hand with pen, signing a piece of paper https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3ljekaw6vjb2o
March 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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lizstokoe.bsky.social
**SECOND #EMCA Starter Pack!**

The 1st is full: go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX so the 2nd is linked below. If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below.

Repost to keep building our community!

go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ
March 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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glerner.bsky.social
Here’s an old note from a beginning grad student (requesting some help with a first assignment) and then my reply.
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January 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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lizstokoe.bsky.social
We @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social @raymond-sociology.bsky.social are very happy to announce a new book and a new paper, both on conversation analysis and membership categorization, published rn in Jan 2025! 📕📄

🧵 1/4

"Categories in Social Interaction" is out now from Routledge #AcademicSky #EMCA
a cardboard box with three copies of the same book entitled Categories in Social Interaction - two with red covers and pale yellow and blue illustrated speech bubbles and one plain blue hardcover - cover by Paul Blow
January 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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glerner.bsky.social
I just stumbled across an old course handout. I thought I might share it here.
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January 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
elliotthoey.bsky.social
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Vacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interaction
Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...
workingat.vu.nl
January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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dollyeldritch.bsky.social
My first paper with my amazing collaborator Dr. Emma Tennent. Come with us and unravel (in frankly masochistic detail) the sequential and categorial reasoning that organises transmisogynistic talk. If you do not have access but would to read it, let me know and I can share a copy. #EMCA 🌈🎓
Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony
Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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laalaajenkins.bsky.social
The CA (Conversation Analysis) day 2024 CAke off begins.

An epic edible version of Schegloff’s CA text.

@emma-richardson.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social #LboroCAday2024 @lborouniversity.bsky.social
Red and white iced cake with the text “sequence organisation” and “Schegloff” with Emma posing in the background
December 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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laalaajenkins.bsky.social
Ruth Parry and Elliott Hoey present ways in which occupational therapists recommend aids and adaptations in palliative care

#lboroCAday2024 #emca

@elliotthoey.bsky.social

@cacenotes.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social
Painting of Ruth presenting behind black screens, wearing fuscia cardigan and lilac top, standing in front of a screen that says “indicating future deterioration” & “translating findings into practice”
December 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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galinabolden.bsky.social
In case you've missed it, a wonderful podcast about Manny's legacy, an insightful interview with John Heritage and recollections of several colleagues and students #EMCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social
www.conversationanalysis.org/podcast/inte...
Interview with John Heritage about Emanuel Schegloff – ISCA
www.conversationanalysis.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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galinabolden.bsky.social
It's wonderful to see this amazing resource now available online #EMCA
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis
Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis
www.cambridge.org
December 6, 2024 at 3:34 PM
elliotthoey.bsky.social
refreshingly coherent and properly contextualized discussion of 'cancel culture', esp relevant for those in academia
open.spotify.com/episode/4WnC...
78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub
Ordinary Unhappiness · Episode
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November 21, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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engber.bsky.social
In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.

As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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jennycz.bsky.social
Cow language postdoc vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Cow-Lang... #linguistics 🐄
Postdoc Cow Language - Meertens
Postdoc Cow Language - Meertens
vacatures.knaw.nl
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
This came out when birdchan was already in demise & bsky didn't exist yet — I'm super proud we pulled it off: a manifesto for moving beyond single-mindedness doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Part of the 'progress and puzzles in cognitive science' series; PDF & fellow travellers at markdingemanse.net/beyond/
CogSci hexagon with six cogsci fields showing 'marginal' areas all focused on interaction. In an animation, they turn to over another and reveal a common core. Cut to author list of Beyond Single-mindedness
November 20, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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akinbosk.bsky.social
Do we have any linguist here who is actively documenting iconicity in spoken language? I would love to connect with them. Most of the people I know working on iconicity focus on their he experimental sides of things.
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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ckomeara.bsky.social
Linguists working on conversation data of understudied langs, what is a good goal of transcribed, translated and coded data per year for a (doc / desc) project? I made my own estimates based on a pilot case but project reviewers said it was not enough. Would love feedback from you all. #linguistics
November 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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dollyeldritch.bsky.social
On the Other Site, I regularly sought out other trans ethnomethodologists & conversation analysts. I've never come across any. It sucks because our analytic resources (esp. Membership Categorisation Analysis) are absolutely necessary for adequately describing instances of transphobia/transmisogyny.
January 29, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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laalaajenkins.bsky.social
🗂️From my research archive: Children’s pain expressions in family mealtimes.

Using words, cries & gestures, children construct pain as a private feeling. But parents treat it as interactionally relevant to the task at hand - (not) eating.

Context matters.

#pain #children #EMCA

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Children’s Sensations as Interactional Phenomena: A Conversation Analysis of Children’s Expressions of Pain and Discomfort
Psychological research has typically studied pain by using participant indirect reports. The current study starts to build an alternative and complementary approach by directly studying pain expres...
doi.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM
elliotthoey.bsky.social
a federated network somehow seems structurally appropriate for #emca
robinjsmith.bsky.social Rob Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hey - looking for the #EMCA we used to know and love in the “other place”… Is it here…?!
November 14, 2024 at 8:15 PM