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  • Data session: 19th November, Magnus Hamann: ‘Unmotivated looking’ data session

    Schofield Building, Room SCH0.13, and online

    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: In this session, we will bring data from a DARG project and engage in unmotivated looking. We will draw from a […]

  • Data session: 26th November, Marco Pino: Discussion of preferences about place of dying

    Schofield Building, Room SCH0.13, and online

    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: We will bring to the session a fragment of a medical consultation recorded in palliative care setting in the UK. The […]

  • Data session: 3rd December, Liz Peel: Negotiating outdoor spaces with canine companions 

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    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 data session focuses on human’s navigating outdoor spaces with their canine companions, specifically whilst dog walking and during the popular […]

  • CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid)

    Brockington Building, U.0.05 Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

      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 […]

    £25

  • Data Session: 21st January, Charles Antaki: Unmotivated looking session

    Schofield Building, Room SCH0.13, and online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 28th January, Yuanyuan Zhang: Laughter in psychotherapy

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 4th February, Marina Cantarutti: Doing gossip

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 11th February, Mimi Suzuki: Psychosocial assessments

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 18th February, Hetty Sargent, Arthur Shoorens & Saul Albert: ‘atypical’ spoken interactions with an LLM-based smart speaker

    Schofield Building, Room SCH0.13, and online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 25th February, Charles Antaki: Unmotivated looking session

    Online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 4th March, Magnus Harmann & Liliia Bespala: Healthy weight coaching

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    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 […]

  • Data Session: 11th March, Mirko Demasi & Søren Beck Nielsen: “It’s not the end of the world”: climate anxiety as the topic of public debate

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    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 […]