This episode was recorded as part of the “Life in CA” plenary at the Digital Meeting on Conversation Analysis in November 2022. During the plenary session, our guests: Bogdana Huma, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, and Chase Raymond answered audience questions put to them via the conference ‘Whova’ platform. Saul Albert (the host) introduces each guest during the episode, but their biographies (from the DMCA website) are included below for the sake of completeness.
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen held the position of professor for English linguistics at the University of Konstanz from 1995-2002 and at the University of Potsdam from 2003-2009. From 2009-2013 she was Finland Distinguished Professor for Interactional Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. She is now located in Berlin, Germany. Her recent publications are devoted to the study of prosody and grammar in Interaction, and include monographs and edited volumes such as Interactional Linguistics (co-authored with Margret Selting); Requesting in Social Interaction (co-edited with Paul Drew), and Imperative Turns at Talk (co-edited with Marja-Leena Sorjonen & Liisa Raevaara); as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.
Chase Wesley Raymond holds PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics (2014) and Sociology (2016), both from UCLA, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests lie at the intersection of language and (different facets of) social identity and normativity, in both ordinary and institutional interaction, with a particular emphasis on grammar. His research has appeared in journal outlets across the fields of Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, Communication Studies, and Medicine, and he is author (with Luis Manuel Olguín) of Análisis de la Conversación: Fundamentos, Metodología y Alcances (Routledge 2022).
Bogdana Huma is an Assistant Professor in the department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Originally, her background was in psychology and sociology, which she studied at the University of Bucharest in Romania. She discovered conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology (DP) quite late, while she was doing her PhD in sociology, and she was captivated by the originality of these new approaches that could make sense of apparently ‘messy’ everyday interaction. So far, her research has used CA, DP and, on occasion, ethnomethodology and membership categorisation analysis to examine commercial encounters, gender inequalities, and, more recently, healthcare interactions.
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Our theme music is “Ethnomethodology” by Peter Daniel off of the album Convulsive Listening (Spotify, Apple Music)