Register here! | Programme and Abstracts Loughborough University's Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 18th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 15th December 2025, 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 […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH0:13 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: This week's session is an unmotivated look at the opening 1:20 of a phone call between British friends. No special analytic […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: In this data session we will be looking at one segment (or two if we have enough time) of the conversation […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: This extract is part of a collection made for a research project on gossip in social interaction. The extract will show […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Content warning: recordings include conversations about self-harm or suicidal thoughts Session details: In this session we will be examining extracts from psychosocial assessments […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH0:13 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: Large Language Models (LLMs) are an increasingly ubiquitous aspect of daily interaction - and are now becoming more common in […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as an online data session: Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: This week's session is an unmotivated look at some data from the Holt corpus. No special analytic focus; we'll take it where it goes. Transcript on […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: In today's session we are looking at interactions where healthy weight coaches (HWCs) guide and advice people on 'healthy living'. We are […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: One of the robust findings of climate change communication research is that debates tend to reveal disagreements about implications rather than […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: TBC Transcript on request.
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: Content Warning – Extract includes upset that relates to palliative care and deterioration. The extract is from a consultation at a UK […]
DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: The extract is from a medical consultation between a surgeon, a patient with pancreatic cancer and a relative. I am interested […]