Past LISO Events: 2020-present
- 2024-25 (data sessions; proseminars)
- 2023-24 (data sessions; proseminars)
- 2022-23
- 2021-22
- 2020-21
LISO Data Sessions 2024-25
Fall 2024 - Coordinator: Marat Zheng (Sociology)
October 4, 2024
~A random piece of conversational interaction from the classic CA database
~A random piece of conversational interaction from the classic CA database
October 11, 2024
Munira Kairat (Education, UCSB)
~"What Are You?" Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths) - Part 1
~"What Are You?" Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths) - Part 1
October 18, 2024
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~A telephone call in English between a supposed local Residents’ Committee representative in Shanghai, China, and a foreign resident, during the Shanghai lockdown in 2022 due to Covid-19. The ‘official’ calls to tell the foreign resident to go to the ‘camp’ for isolation. One of the series of telephone calls leaked and circulated on Chinese social media at that time.
~A telephone call in English between a supposed local Residents’ Committee representative in Shanghai, China, and a foreign resident, during the Shanghai lockdown in 2022 due to Covid-19. The ‘official’ calls to tell the foreign resident to go to the ‘camp’ for isolation. One of the series of telephone calls leaked and circulated on Chinese social media at that time.
October 25, 2024
Munira Kairat (Education, UCSB)
~"What Are You?" Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths) - Part 2
~"What Are You?" Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths) - Part 2
November 1, 2024
André Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)
~A collection of police encounters involving individuals going through mental health crisis
~A collection of police encounters involving individuals going through mental health crisis
November 22, 2024
Alejandro Anaya Ramírez (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México)
~Innovative quotative markers during an interaction of a trans and non-binary community of practice in Mexico
~Innovative quotative markers during an interaction of a trans and non-binary community of practice in Mexico
December 6, 2024
J Sterphone (Sociology, Wheaton College (MA))
~The data constitutes a segment from the cross-examination of a State Trooper (state's witness) involved in a fairly high profile court case involving the alleged hit-and-run of a Boston police officer by his long-time girlfriend.
~The data constitutes a segment from the cross-examination of a State Trooper (state's witness) involved in a fairly high profile court case involving the alleged hit-and-run of a Boston police officer by his long-time girlfriend.
Winter 2025 - Coordinator: Marat Zheng (Sociology)
January 10, 2025
~Unmotivated observations on [Chinese Dinner]
January 17, 2025
~Unmotivated observations on [Chinese Dinner] (cont.)
~Unmotivated observations on [Chinese Dinner] (cont.)
January 24, 2025
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~This session examines extracts from debriefing interviews with individuals who participated in a research experiment on decision-making. My analysis focuses on how participants account for decisions based on race-, gender-, or other category-based stereotypes, framing their apparent biases as automatic, externally influenced, or involuntary, often invoking implicit bias as a self-presentational resource. These findings highlight the alignment of participants’ practices with those of academic and professional anti-bias contexts. Today, I briefly revisit 3 extracts and extend the analysis to an additional 3 for comparative insights.
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~This session examines extracts from debriefing interviews with individuals who participated in a research experiment on decision-making. My analysis focuses on how participants account for decisions based on race-, gender-, or other category-based stereotypes, framing their apparent biases as automatic, externally influenced, or involuntary, often invoking implicit bias as a self-presentational resource. These findings highlight the alignment of participants’ practices with those of academic and professional anti-bias contexts. Today, I briefly revisit 3 extracts and extend the analysis to an additional 3 for comparative insights.
January 31, 2025
Paddy Lehleiter (Linguistics, Free University Berlin)
~Interactional construction of a lesbian date as non-normative and negotiation of category-tied activities at the boundary between friendship and romantic partnership
Paddy Lehleiter (Linguistics, Free University Berlin)
~Interactional construction of a lesbian date as non-normative and negotiation of category-tied activities at the boundary between friendship and romantic partnership
February 7, 2025
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~A telephone call between a foreign resident and a local government official during the Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai in 2022
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~A telephone call between a foreign resident and a local government official during the Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai in 2022
February 14, 2025
Jeffery Aguinaldo (Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University)
~Telephone calls with people living with HIV; two instances of HIV disclosures
Jeffery Aguinaldo (Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University)
~Telephone calls with people living with HIV; two instances of HIV disclosures
March 7, 2025
Alejandro Anaya Ramírez (Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)
~A spontaneous conversation between members of a ballroom house in Puebla, Mexico
Alejandro Anaya Ramírez (Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)
~A spontaneous conversation between members of a ballroom house in Puebla, Mexico
LISO Seminar Series 2024-25
Fall 2024 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
November 1, 2024
Jianhong Lin (Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Japan)
"Nested position reimagined: How children adjust and shape family reading habitus"
Jianhong Lin (Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Japan)
"Nested position reimagined: How children adjust and shape family reading habitus"
November 8, 2024
Rebekah Jeanne Austin (Berkeley School of Education, University of California, Berkeley)
"Corporeal communication: Rethinking stimming as autistic language"
"Corporeal communication: Rethinking stimming as autistic language"
November 22, 2024
Kevin Whitehead & Gene Lerner (Department of Sociology, UCSB)
"When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known, and presumed unknown"
"When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known, and presumed unknown"
Winter 2025 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
January 17, 2025
Jason Turowetz (Sociology, UCSB)
"Disorder or difference? How clinician-patient interaction shapes the meaning of autism diagnosis"
Jason Turowetz (Sociology, UCSB)
"Disorder or difference? How clinician-patient interaction shapes the meaning of autism diagnosis"
January 31, 2025
Federico Rossano (Cognitive Science, UCSD)
"What can we learn from dogs pushing buttons with humans?"
"What can we learn from dogs pushing buttons with humans?"
February 21, 2025
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
"Managing self-presentation: The use of implicit bias as an interactional resource to account for observably biased action"
"Managing self-presentation: The use of implicit bias as an interactional resource to account for observably biased action"
February 28, 2025
Jessica Gilooly (Sociology & Criminal Justice, Suffolk University)
"The 911 call-taker’s challenge: Sending the right first responder"
"The 911 call-taker’s challenge: Sending the right first responder"
March 7, 2025
Cooper Bedin (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Power, politics, and nonbinary identity in trans talk"
"Power, politics, and nonbinary identity in trans talk"
LISO Data Sessions 2023-24
Winter 2024 – Coordinator: Marat Zheng (Sociology)
January 12, 2024
~Two-page transcripts of an ordinary conversation in English
~Two-page transcripts of an ordinary conversation in English
January 19, 2024
Kevin Whitehead (Sociology, UCSB)
Kevin Whitehead (Sociology, UCSB)
January 26, 2024
~Two-page transcripts of an ordinary conversation in English
~Two-page transcripts of an ordinary conversation in English
February 2, 2024
André Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)
~Instead of a data session, this will be a mock job talk for a faculty position of Criminology; the main goal of the talk will be to ‘sell’ conversation analysis to an unfamiliar audience.
André Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)
~Instead of a data session, this will be a mock job talk for a faculty position of Criminology; the main goal of the talk will be to ‘sell’ conversation analysis to an unfamiliar audience.
February 9, 2024
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~A collection of successive self-corrections; data are in English and Mandarin
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~A collection of successive self-corrections; data are in English and Mandarin
February 16, 2024
Jason Turowetz & Waverly Duck (Sociology, UCSB)
~Clinicians at an autism clinic asking children questions about their emotions
Jason Turowetz & Waverly Duck (Sociology, UCSB)
~Clinicians at an autism clinic asking children questions about their emotions
February 23, 2024
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~Transcripts from interviews conducted following participation in an experiment. I am specifically looking at the accounts being provided by participants as they discuss ‘implicit/unconscious bias’ (Extreme Case Formulations, mitigation, negation).
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~Transcripts from interviews conducted following participation in an experiment. I am specifically looking at the accounts being provided by participants as they discuss ‘implicit/unconscious bias’ (Extreme Case Formulations, mitigation, negation).
March 1, 2024
Munira Hailati (Education, UCSB)
~Naturally occurring family conversations between moms and children (the purpose of the conversation will be teaching children to speak Kazakh language)
Munira Hailati (Education, UCSB)
~Naturally occurring family conversations between moms and children (the purpose of the conversation will be teaching children to speak Kazakh language)
March 8, 2024
Anastasia Stavridou (Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester)
~Video-recorded data from time-out interactions during basketball games
Anastasia Stavridou (Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester)
~Video-recorded data from time-out interactions during basketball games
March 15, 2024
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~Part 2 of the February 23 session
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~Part 2 of the February 23 session
Spring 2024 – Coordinator: Marat Zheng (Sociology)
April 5, 2024
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~Some candidate cases of successive self-repairs I
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~Some candidate cases of successive self-repairs I
April 12, 2024
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~Some candidate cases of successive self-repairs II
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
~Some candidate cases of successive self-repairs II
April 19, 2024
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~[Part I] Data presented is a series of clips from interviews conducted following participation in an experiment by the interviewee. Specifically, we will be examining interviewee’s use of “implicit bias” as an interactional resource to account for conduct during the experiment that might have otherwise appeared to be explicitly (deliberately or consciously) biased; with an emphasis on the practices used to produce an account.
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~[Part I] Data presented is a series of clips from interviews conducted following participation in an experiment by the interviewee. Specifically, we will be examining interviewee’s use of “implicit bias” as an interactional resource to account for conduct during the experiment that might have otherwise appeared to be explicitly (deliberately or consciously) biased; with an emphasis on the practices used to produce an account.
April 26, 2024
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~[Part II] of the April 19 session.
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)
~[Part II] of the April 19 session.
May 10, 2024
Micaela Gomez (Sociology, UCSB)
~Biracial, Bisexual Interviews
Micaela Gomez (Sociology, UCSB)
~Biracial, Bisexual Interviews
June 7, 2024
~Ordinary conversational interaction in English
~Ordinary conversational interaction in English
LISO Seminar Series 2023-24
Fall 2023 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
October 20, 2023
Jonathan Potter & Alexa Hepburn (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers)
Jonathan Potter & Alexa Hepburn (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers)
“Emotionography and the case of ‘mixed emotion’”
October 27, 2023
Natasha Shrikant (Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder) & Francesca Williamson (Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan)
“Race talk in institutional contexts: Language and social interaction perspectives”
“Race talk in institutional contexts: Language and social interaction perspectives”
December 1, 2023
Munira Hailati (Department of Education, UCSB)
“Language socialization and sustaining 'Qazaqness' in a community-based cultural center in California”
“Language socialization and sustaining 'Qazaqness' in a community-based cultural center in California”
Winter 2024 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
January 26, 2024
Mathew Butler (Linguistics, University of York, UK)
“‘We all know’ in broadcast talk”
Mathew Butler (Linguistics, University of York, UK)
“‘We all know’ in broadcast talk”
February 16, 2024
André Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)
“Politeness, formality, and authority in police encounters: The case of address terms”
“Politeness, formality, and authority in police encounters: The case of address terms”
February 23, 2024
Lor Martin (Sociology, UCLA)
“Love at first bite? The occasioning and deployment of food assessments at the dinner table”
“Love at first bite? The occasioning and deployment of food assessments at the dinner table”
March 1, 2024
A. Jay Meehan (Sociology, Oakland University) & Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology, UCSB)
“The wrath of whren: Supreme court jurisprudence and the interactional foundations of racialized police violence”
“The wrath of whren: Supreme court jurisprudence and the interactional foundations of racialized police violence”
March 8, 2024
Andrew Chalfoun (Sociology, UCLA)
“Shifting responsibility onto coparticipants: Disaffiliative accounts as an interactional practice"
“Shifting responsibility onto coparticipants: Disaffiliative accounts as an interactional practice"
Spring 2024 - Coordinator: Lal Zimman (Linguistics)
April 12, 2024
Adrienne Tsikewa (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session: Bilingual interviews with Zuni community members conducted by family members
Adrienne Tsikewa (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session: Bilingual interviews with Zuni community members conducted by family members
May 3, 2024
Marat Zheng (Sociology, UCSB)
“Some sources of successive repairs in conversational interaction”
May 24, 2024
Ryan Lai & Lu Liu (Linguistics, UCSB)
Feedback session: Analysis of a Cantonese discourse marker
Feedback session: Analysis of a Cantonese discourse marker
May 31, 2024
Joshua Raclaw (English & Linguistics, West Chester University)
“Trans(form)ing gender indexicality: Trans epistemologies and the fluidity of categories”
“Trans(form)ing gender indexicality: Trans epistemologies and the fluidity of categories”
June 7, 2024
Elle Henderson (Psychology, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand)
“The moral accountability of being correctly sexed: Transphobia in interaction”
“The moral accountability of being correctly sexed: Transphobia in interaction”
LISO Seminar Series 2022-23
Fall 2022 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
November 4, 2022
Jonathan Potter & Alexa Hepburn (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers)
“Anger in interaction – some tentative systematics”
Jonathan Potter & Alexa Hepburn (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers)
“Anger in interaction – some tentative systematics”
November 18, 2022
Helen Melander Bowden (Department of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden)
“Children’s embodied learning in a mobile preschool: The emergent and contingent co-construction of pedagogical spaces while on-the-move”
Helen Melander Bowden (Department of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden)
“Children’s embodied learning in a mobile preschool: The emergent and contingent co-construction of pedagogical spaces while on-the-move”
December 2, 2022
Laura Sterponi (Berkeley School of Education and Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley)
“Rethinking communicative competence through the lens of critical autism studies”
Laura Sterponi (Berkeley School of Education and Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley)
“Rethinking communicative competence through the lens of critical autism studies”
Winter 2023 - Coordinator: John W. DuBois (Linguistics)
January 13, 2023
John W. Du Bois & Ryan Ka Yau Lai (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Do words predict intonation unit boundaries? What about turn-constrictional units?”
John W. Du Bois & Ryan Ka Yau Lai (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Do words predict intonation unit boundaries? What about turn-constrictional units?”
February 10, 2023
Sabrina Sun & Ryan Ka Yau Lai (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Analyzing and visualizing turns and backchannels in a multi-party conversation”
March 3, 2023
Susan C. Herring (Indiana University Bloomington)
"Performing conversation: Interactional strategies in TikTok duets"
Susan C. Herring (Indiana University Bloomington)
"Performing conversation: Interactional strategies in TikTok duets"
March 10, 2023
Gulnara Boribayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University)
“The Kazakh Spoken Corpus: Transcribing conversation with ELAN and visualizing with Rezonator”
Gulnara Boribayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University)
“The Kazakh Spoken Corpus: Transcribing conversation with ELAN and visualizing with Rezonator”
Spring 2023 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
April 7, 2023
Lucas Wiscons (University of Wisconsin)
"How police use records to erase their own provocative moves”
Lucas Wiscons (University of Wisconsin)
"How police use records to erase their own provocative moves”
April 28, 2023
Rachel Chen (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University)
“Dr. Chen will introduce her current research and invite us to join in collaboratively analyzing video recordings from her ongoing work.
“Dr. Chen will introduce her current research and invite us to join in collaboratively analyzing video recordings from her ongoing work.
Dr. Chen completed her dissertation, ‘Being non-speaking in a speaking world: Surfacing the improvisations of autistic individuals’ at UC Berkeley's Embodied Design Research Laboratory and recently joined the faculty at Nanyang Technological University.”
May 12, 2023
Yelena Guzman (Science, Technology, & Society Studies, University of Alberta)
“The mediation is the message: Respecifying stenographic neutrality through an ethnography of real-time classroom captioning”
Yelena Guzman (Science, Technology, & Society Studies, University of Alberta)
“The mediation is the message: Respecifying stenographic neutrality through an ethnography of real-time classroom captioning”
May 19-20, 2023
The 26th Annual Conference on LISO at UCSB
The 26th Annual Conference on LISO at UCSB
Theme: 'Continuing and Restarting"
LISO Seminar Series 2021-22
Fall 2021 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
October 15, 2021
Asta Cekaite (Child Studies, Linköping University) & Matt Burdelski (Linguistics, Osaka University)
“Crying and crying responses: A comparative exploration of pragmatic socialization in Swedish and Japanese Preschools”
October 22, 2021
Amanda Bateman (Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
“Noticing, recognising and responding to children’s affective displays”
November 5, 2021
Lourdes de León (Linguistics, Center for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, CIESAS, Mexico)
“Learning by inhabiting actions: Mayan children’s embodied interactions in their everyday learning ecologies”
Winter 2022 - Coordinator: John Du Bois (Linguistics)
January 14, 2022
Mugiho Kojima (Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan & Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
“COVID-19 interactions that feature ageism: A case study of conversation among Japanese women”
January 28, 2022
Shirly Orr (Tel Aviv University)
“The natural use of Truth in interaction”
February 11, 2022
Michael Mora Rodriguez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona & Department of Sociology, UCSB)
“Structural organization of police border checks in the Spain-France border area”
March 11, 2022
Federico Rossano (UC San Diego)
“Interacting like a human being: How children and non-human primates calibrate requests”
Spring 2022 - Coordinator: Kevin Whitehead (Sociology)
April 1, 2022
David Gibson (Department of Sociology, Notre Dame)
“Hyping the hypothetical: The conversational machinery of legal argumentation at the U.S. Supreme Court”
April 29, 2022
Isabella Giglio (Department of Sociology, UCSB)
“Knowledge assessments in medical encounters: An analysis of knowledge in doctor-patient interactions”
May 6, 2022
Andre Buscariolli (Department of Sociology, UCSB)
“Doing space during police-civilian encounters: Embodiment and spatiality in police work”
May 27, 2022
Patricia Lehleiter (Institute of English Literature and Language, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Free University of Berlin & Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘We're just friends’: Managing relationship categories and boundaries in interaction”
LISO Seminar Series 2020-21
Fall 2020 - Coordinator: John Du Bois (Linguistics)
October 16, 2020
Giorgia Troiani (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data Session: "Competing factors in Kazakh reported speech"
Data Session: "Competing factors in Kazakh reported speech"
October 30, 2020
Simeon Floyd (Anthropology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
“Getting others to do things in Cha’palaa and beyond"
Simeon Floyd (Anthropology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
“Getting others to do things in Cha’palaa and beyond"
November 13, 2020
Nick Enfield (Linguistics, University of Sydney)
"Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments"
Nick Enfield (Linguistics, University of Sydney)
"Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments"
Winter 2021 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
January 22, 2021
Rachel Chen (Education, University of California, Berkeley)
"Diverging goals in Autistic child-parent interaction"
Rachel Chen (Education, University of California, Berkeley)
"Diverging goals in Autistic child-parent interaction"
February 12, 2021
Sara Goico (Sociology, UCLA) & Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Anthropology, UCLA)
"Exclusion and inclusion in peer groups: The construction of exclusionary acts by hearing and deaf youth"
Sara Goico (Sociology, UCLA) & Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Anthropology, UCLA)
"Exclusion and inclusion in peer groups: The construction of exclusionary acts by hearing and deaf youth"
February 26, 2021
Sarah Jean Johnson (Education, University of Texas, El Paso) & Alejandra Sanmiguel López (Education, University of Texas, El Paso)
"Mexican heritage children’s cultural learning of ballet folklórico: Attentive and embodied pedagogies of care, cultural pride, and
concerted hard work"
Sarah Jean Johnson (Education, University of Texas, El Paso) & Alejandra Sanmiguel López (Education, University of Texas, El Paso)
"Mexican heritage children’s cultural learning of ballet folklórico: Attentive and embodied pedagogies of care, cultural pride, and
concerted hard work"
Spring 2021 - Coordinator: Kevin Whitehead (Sociology)
April 30, 2021
Kevin Whitehead & Geoffrey Raymond (Department of Sociology, UCSB)
“Who is the actor? What is the action? Managing the problem of multiple categories in relation to the formation and ascription of actions”
“Who is the actor? What is the action? Managing the problem of multiple categories in relation to the formation and ascription of actions”
May 7, 2021
Jessie Jie Chen (Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia)
“Progressing courses of action: Gestures and gestalt in Mandarin multi-party talk”
Jessie Jie Chen (Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia)
“Progressing courses of action: Gestures and gestalt in Mandarin multi-party talk”
May 14, 2021
Albert J. Meehan & AnnMarie Dennis (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, University of Oakland)
“‘In situ’ assessments of officer’s Accounts of ‘what happened’ in police-involved shootings”
Albert J. Meehan & AnnMarie Dennis (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, University of Oakland)
“‘In situ’ assessments of officer’s Accounts of ‘what happened’ in police-involved shootings”
May 21, 2021
Galina Bolden (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers)
“Error correction as a site for negotiating epistemic responsibilities”
Galina Bolden (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers)
“Error correction as a site for negotiating epistemic responsibilities”
May 28, 2021
Chadi Ben Youssef (Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘I wear combat boots on my tongue’: A multivariate study of stance taking and evaluation in a radical-right radio show”
Chadi Ben Youssef (Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘I wear combat boots on my tongue’: A multivariate study of stance taking and evaluation in a radical-right radio show”