📑 Thanks to Patient Education and Counseling for publishing our new special issue (5 interactional studies!). We examine questioning practices, which illuminate possibilities and constraints on fully engaging children in their care and health decisions.🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.…

Aleksandr Shirokov reveals how pediatricians navigate challenges engaging children in reporting symptoms in “Responsibility to report symptoms: Pursuing symptom reports from children in paediatric encounters.”

doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.…

[Open Access] Ethnography in the Open Science and Digital Age: New Debates, Dilemmas, and Issues - Frontiers in Sociology

Info: ow.ly/zF2U50RkPfz

#OTD 86 years ago, Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) was born 🎂 Sociologist and sociolinguist, one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis and an expert on sociolinguistic analysis of laughter. She also transcribed the Watergate tapes.

#LinguisticBirthdas #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

So happy to see this special issue on CA and Healthcare Interactions out!

Our state-of-the-art review of CA research in ADULT OUTPATIENT SECONDARY CARE is open access:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Wayne Beach, Dr Danielle Jones

So much fantastic CA research in this setting! 🌟

Delighted to see now out a Special Issue, edited by the excellent Rebecca Barnes 💙💛 and Ruth Parry Ruth Parry 💙 - a survey of the state of the art in CA research on a range of medical and health-related encounters.

6 of the articles are Open Access, too.

tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/cur…

In principle, screenwriters can design fictional interactions in which no misunderstanding occurs. Then why do they make characters misunderstand and operate repair?
My new paper on fictional characterization and membership categorization is out now.
degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Today HRC York is launching the exhibition Creative Encounters. One of the images arises from the artist Joanna Lisowiec joining in one of our regular data sessions. The resulting engraving, A Quiet Place to Talk, relates to some of our work on 'the unsaid'.

“I’m only half Korean but I can relate to a lot of what you said” : YouTube comments as second stories in response to “lunchbox moment” narrative videos
Authors: Hanwool Choe and Cynthia Gordon
Source: Internet Pragmatics
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.001…

Moscow, March 1, Alexey Navalny funeral. It is simply very dangerous to be there, yet thousands of people came.

Nine years ago, on February 27, 2015, Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader, a former governor and vice prime minister, was assassinated near Kremlin by guards of a Putin’s henchman. He was campaigning against the war with Ukraine at the time.

⚡️⚡️⚡️Alexei’s mother has been shown her son's body, but it is not handed over to her. Instead, she is blackmailed. On the Kremlin's orders, the investigators set conditions as to where, when, and how Alexei is to be buried. They want to do it secretly, without her being able to…

This, by my friend and co-author Ilya Budraitskis, is one of the deeper, more thoughtful essays of Navalny.

jacobin.com/2024/02/alexey…

Yulia Navalnya says she will continue the work of her husband. 'I am not afraid, and you should not be afraid of anything either.'

Alexei Navalny courageously exposed the corruption and lies of Putin’s authoritarian regime. Now Putin has killed him for it. The Russian people deserve better.

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

A clear and brave message from Alexey Navalny in case the regime should kill him.

But what about Thomas Hobbes?

The UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture is happy to offer its first Professional Training Summer Workshop on Studying Social Interaction, Aug 4-24,2024 clic.ss.ucla.edu/summer-school,… dlvr.it/T2RrZM

Hand gestures have predictive potential during conversation: An investigation of the timing of gestures in relation to speech. New paper by Marlijn ter Bekke , Linda Drijvers & Judith Holler
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1…