Funny videos that can help to explain CA concepts

Funny videos that help explain EM/CA concepts

Compiled from a great thread on video 'funnies' by Ruth Parry on the languse mailing list and random tweets. See also the video section of the EMCA Teaching resources page.

Preference organization

• Response conformity/non-conformity: https://twitter.com/DanRiffle/status/1106292926831824907 - from [Adrian Kerrisson]
• Preference structures: A clip montage of Worf from Star Trek TNG having a slew of first actions rejected and challenged - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs

Dispreference

• Green Wing Sue White and her completely deviant interactional practice (buzzer) for indicating dispreferredness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBM1x5DPBXA

Sequence organization

• The hedge sketch – for sequencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FUZ6eUwG54
• sequence organization, conditional relevance and adjacency pairs (although some find it a little violent...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpSeMIE361g

Adjacency pairs

• The Audition (from Mr Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ZNX1jqbOk

Pre-sequences

• Here’s a favorite from “Everybody Loves Raymond.” I’ve been using this to teach about pre-sequencing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0418Ozjt4

Social norms

• Curb your Enthusiasm Chat and cut – for queueing behaviour and social norms, and of course Larry’s rudeness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bW1aMAkhs
• Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm are absolute treasure troves of this kind of thing. The most famous example probably being the ‘close talker’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVSIkEi3mM

Question design

• Medical students’ spoof on communication skills – overdone ‘open questioning’ and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m6d95yJd8

Next turn proof procedure

• From 0:36 onward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGXxAnYDMc

Pursuing a response

• And there is also this, from Family Guy, which I like, on delayed recipiency and pursuing responses…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

Participation frameworks

• participation frameworks/eye contact https://vimeo.com/85448261

Smiling

• hide your pain Harold' meme works well for expression/smiling http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hide-the-pain-harold

Oh

• The Yip Yips discover the call of the telephone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX8-XcupDaY&ab_channel=kgordonprofessor

Gesture

• emblematic v's deictic gesture (it's also good for Goffman) from the old faithful seinfeld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLEaVzBMuQ

Intersubjectivity

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcWtvEzdR8 (but ensure you stop it before the racism starts at about 3:40)

Repair

• repair/breaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR6pBGMZ90
• problems of hearing vs. problems of understanding: https://twitter.com/saul/status/1136216104408420352

Turn-taking

• turn-taking, tcus, projectability, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_cRP6MhM8k
• TCUs and speech exchange systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gULNoATVT1I
• Turn-taking, but also progressivity & contiguity, repair, gaze/gesture/body orientation: https://twitter.com/saul/status/1136196231577968641
• Turn-taking, turn-allocation (Seinfeld): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tYq_PjRjI
• Collaborative completions (Bit of Fry & Laurie, Understanding Barman sketch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvAQfHPTomA

Apologies

• This scene from Friends is useful for talking about apologies and what kinds of responses they might make relevant: Minutes 1:36-2:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHTrX6milno