Plenary Speakers for 2007 :

Celia Kitzinger, Sociology, University of York, UK  

Gift-giving and Reciprocity in Social Interaction: A Conversation Analytic Study

Barbara Fox, Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder

Positionally-sensitive grammar: responses to WH-questions in English

Jason Raley, Education, University of California, Santa Barbara

Assessments and the problem of momentum in schooltalk

Norma Mendoza-Denton, Anthropology, University of Arizona

Convergent approaches in the study of conversation and sociophonetics

Workshops:

Graduate student workshops have been arranged with the plenary speakers on Thursday May 17th.

Celia Kitzinger and Jason Raley (10:30-12:30),

Norma Mendoza-Denton and Barbara Fox (1:15-3:15)

Kitzinger workshop information

Title: Using Conversation Analysis in the Real World: Improving Service on a Birth Crisis Helpline

In this workshop I will briefly explain how I use recordings of calls in training programmes with midwives, doulas, breastfeeding counsellors and other health care providers who work for the Birth Crisis helpline - a voluntary helpline service for women traumatised by childbirth. For the first hour I will then run the workshop *as if* it were part of such a training programme. Participants will have the experience of listening to extracts from calls, and (working in pairs - as in the training programmes) responding to callers as if they were helpline volunteers. In the second part of the workshop we will discuss the value of using recordings of real calls, and conversation analysis of them, over role-play and theoretical formulations of what works in counselling interaction. We will also (I hope) draw on other experiences (including participants') of using conversation analyis to effect change in the world. If you come along to this workshop please be aware that some of the material you will be listening to is quite distressing: if you have recently had a bad birth experience yourself (or if you are currently pregnant) this may not be the workshop for you.

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