CA Day 2024, Monday 16th December (hybrid)
December 16 @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pm GMT
£25Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 13th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 16th December 2024, 9:30am-5:30 (followed by an evening reception with food and wine), supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.
Join us for a (hybrid) meeting comprising a series of paper presentations in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
Invited Speakers
- Ann Weatherall: Building sustainable communities through service encounters in Keech Charity shops
- Sally Wiggins Young: ‘Eating together? Co-eating practices in children’s preschool lunches’
Programme
(and Abstracts)
| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 09:30 – 9:55 | Registration, tea and coffee | |
| 09:55 – 10:00 | Welcome to CA Day | |
| 10:00 -10:30 | ‘Building trust to study trust: Paving the Way for Applied CA Research with vulnerable participants’
|
Mie Femø Nielsen | Ann Merrit RIkke Nielsen | University of Copenhagen |
| 10:30 -11:00 | ‘Headroom and Reset: Issues in the management of (family) conflict’ | Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers University |
| 11.00 – 11:45 | Invited talk 1 | Ann Weatherall | University of Bedfordshire |
| 11:45-12:15 | Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2024 | |
| 12:15- 12:45 | ‘System Justification in Action: Discursive Constructions of the Status Quo in Parliamentary Debates Concerning Brexit’ | Alex Hunt | Stephen Gibson | Heriot-Watt University |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | ‘Describing and categorising family violence in calls to police’ | Emma Tennent | Victoria University of Wellington | Ann Weatherall | University of Bedfordshire |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB), or bring you own! | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | ‘Interactional challenges and practices in recommending aids and changes to patients’ activities of daily living in palliative occupational therapy and physiotherapy’ | Elliott Hoey | Vrije Universitait Amsterdam | Ruth Parry | Loughborough University and Treetops Hospice, Derbyshire
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| 15:00- 15:30 | ‘Staging Conversation with AI: Human Demonstrators’ Interactional Work in a GPT-4 Live Demo’ | Yujin Shin, | Yo-An Lee | Sogang University
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | ‘Preliminary results of interactional functions of expletives and swearing in the Italian instant messaging corpus WhaP!’ | Maria Eleonora Sciubba | Tilburg University | Ilaria Fiorentini | Università di Pavia |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2023 | |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Invited talk 2
|
Sally Wiggins | Linköping University |
| 17:15 – close | Drinks 🍷 🥂 and pizza 🍕 @ Brockington | |
Registration
Registration is now open on the Loughborough event booking system: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/communication-and-media/upcoming-events/ca-day-2024
In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis but (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!
Once we have reached capacity, you can join the waiting list. Normally a number of registrants withdraw before the conference, and we allocate their places to those waiting. Most withdrawals happen close to the conference date, though, so you may not be sure about a place for some time.
Attendance costs:
- In-person: £25, or £20 for students/unwaged, which pays for refreshments and the evening reception (you will be able to buy lunch on campus this year)
- Online-only: £5, which helps to pay for other event costs and for someone to look after the stream/questions etc.
#CakeOff2024
We would also like to invite you to participate in the grand CA Day #CAkeOff2023 competition, which will be held in hybrid format again this year.
Cat Holt’s winning ‘edible transcript’ entry to #CAkeOff2022
For those planning on participating in the competition in-person, please bring your cakes to CA day where our invited speakers will judge, along with enthusiastic participation from all other CA Day in-person delegates.
For those participating online, please prepare a 5-10 second naturalistic video clip of someone eating your cake. Submission instructions to follow.Please make sure your video captures the cake recipient’s responses e.g., gustatory ‘mms’ (Wiggins, 2002), lip smacks, or, perish the thought, ‘yucks’. Please send in your videos by the 13th December to provide adequate time for judging. Grand prizes will be awarded during the closing ceremony!
Wiggins, S. (2002). Talking with your mouth full: Gustatory mmms and the embodiment of pleasure. Research on language and social interaction, 35(3), 311-336.
Venue information
Please contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) with any queries.
We’ll be in the Brockington Extension, Room U.0.05. Use these links for travel and campus map.
Added: Here’s a list of University accommodation. Other hotels are also available. Overseas visitors: the closest airport is East Midlands Airport (EMA), Birmingham Airport is not too far.
Follow the #CAday2024 hashtag on whatever social media platforms still exist.
Please also follow DARG_sessions on X, on mastodon, and the CRCC on X and CRCC on Mastodon