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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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ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · 11d

📣 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

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 16d

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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 · 23d

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

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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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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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Jun 25

A snippet from the new rolsi.net blog by
@profsalwiggins.bsky.social
on the initial meeting of the EatSiN network of #EMCA food & interaction researchers.

rolsi.net

An image taken from the ROLSi.net blog about research done on eating in interaction

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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨Save the date!🚨
🗣️Spread the word! 🗣️

The next ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University on 🗓️24-26 August 2026🗓️
icopl2.org

More details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for abstracts, and more, coming soon!

#EMCA #L2interaction

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're pleased that the Special Section on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis" is attracting interest.

Topics include: "legacy" data; ethics boards; curated repositories; open science; cultural norms...

Online here:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/5...

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Special Section: The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis. Volume 58, Issue 2 of Research on Language and Social Interaction

www.tandfonline.com

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Marco Pino @marcopino.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are advertising an Online Workshop in Conversation Analysis and Healthcare Interactions (Loughborough University). Details: darg.lboro.ac.uk/news/new-wor...

New workshop advertised – DARG

darg.lboro.ac.uk

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · Jun 1

Does CA’s unique approach to language and social interaction come across correctly in the AI-generated podcast? Really excellent and thought provoking @rolsi-journal.bsky.social blog by Bogdana Huma with some useful ideas for assignments @bogdanahuma.bsky.social #emca

ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · May 30

Can you use AI in teaching Conversation Analysis?

@bogdanahuma.bsky.social reports using a remarkably real-sounding AI-generated podcast, ostensibly discussing a CA paper. Will students spot its mistakes, trivial and profound?

The new ROLSI.net blog here:
rolsi.net/2025/05/30/g...

An image generated by ChatGPT to the prompt "Produce a realistic image of a male and female podcast duo, discussing a topic in conversation analysis"

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · May 30

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · May 27

The Editors hope that this Special Section on collecting CA data will speak to calls for greater transparency in recording personal and institutional interactions.

We are grateful to the contributors for insightful and thought-provoking essays.

#EMCA

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The abstract from the editors' introduction to the special section on curating CA data.

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IIEMCA2027 @iiemca27.bsky.social · May 27

As chilly winter temperatures set in, we look at Wits University -host of IIEMCA27- which will be 105 years old in 2027.
Wits is a multi-campus university that spans 400 hectares in Braamfontein and Parktown (Johannesburg). There is so much to experience at Wits...

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Marc Alexander @marcalexander.bsky.social · May 27

We are excited to announce an interaction-based open science sandpit event!

Insights from ongoing discourse analysis and experimental research

Experimental researchers' experiences of the project.

Open discussions on future funding opportunities for researchers.

#EMCA #DiscursivePsychology

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · May 21

This may help - Couper-Kuhlen (2014) provides a comparative table analyzing offers, proposals, suggestions, and advice in “What does grammar tell us about action?” Pragmatics 623–647. Her table contrasts these action types across several dimensions - grammatical formats, epistemic access etc

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