The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher education, designed to serve the needs of scholars of language and social interaction across a variety of disciplines and applications. Founded in 2010, the Society seeks to provide its members with resources to advance the field by circulating findings, creating better courses, strengthening research, and creating a collective voice for the development and application of professional findings.
A major aim of ISCA is to encourage and enhance interdisciplinary research into the structure and dynamics of social interaction through the creation of a multi-disciplinary community of scholars. From its beginning, the organization has been committed to the notion that broad advances in the understanding of social interaction require disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to research and learning.
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ICCA 2026 will be held June 23–29, 2026 in in Edmonton, Canada
ICCA 2023: was held June 28th – July 2nd, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia. Read the live blog reports from the conference here!
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Thanks @katemarkss for capturing (this is emerging as a keyword for us, innit?) my funny expression while presenting at @DurhamImh Perspective Conversation Analysis #emca work for @MovingSW. The IMD is such an amazing, warm, inspiring space. I’m so grateful for what’s coming!🤩
From the ROLSI Editors’ chapter in the excellent new Handbook on methods in CA: in praise of oddity
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-cambridge-handbook-of-methods-in-conversation-analysis/E6E6C302B82A8CD88A8E3988449796DD?pageNum=1&searchWithinIds=E6E6C302B82A8CD88A8E3988449796DD&productType=BOOK_PART&searchWithinIds=E6E6C302B82A8CD88A8E3988449796DD&productType=BOOK_PART&sort=mtdMetadata.bookPartMeta._mtdPositionSortable%3Aasc&pageSize=30&template=cambridge-core%2Fbook%2Fcontents%2Flistings&ignoreExclusions=true#
I used this data (from @LizStokoe in a class about pragmatics and categories (kind of MCA/DP-lite) today, and a student from Malaysia just came to my office to tell me she now understands experiences she has had here in Japan in a deeper way now. The power of #EMCA.
Thanks Liz!
In this first chapter of the Methods Handbook, we offer an overview of the foundational principles that guide CA research. We hope it will be of use to both novice and seasoned researchers alike.
Happy to send a PDF copy if you don’t have institutional access.
Join us for #CAday2024 by @DARG_sessions
📅Monday 16/12
Over 15 scholars are presenting incredible work ➕our two amazing keynote speakers Ann Weatherall and Sally Wiggins Young @ProfSalWiggins
Register here: https://shorturl.at/N4qWw
#CakeOff2024 is highly anticipated ✨🍰