EMCA Teaching Resources

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We invite members of the community to donate materials:

• syllabi
• course outlines
• powerpoint slides
• student participation and assignment exercises
• assessment techniques
• online resources and useful links
• reference materials / book lists

Links to Teaching resources

Tutorials & Talks

• CASE advisory on equipment for recording and analysing in CA

• Charles Antaki’s resources, Lectures on analyzing talk and interaction and online introductory CA tutorial: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/

• Paul ten Have: “Doing CA”, A slide show; a 11-slide introduction, based on my book Doing conversation analysis,  for a ‘master class’ at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 20 May 2009: a downloadable exe-file that can be played on any computer or a pdf-file with the text of the slides

• Nick Llewellyn’s resources: http://llewellyn.nick.googlepages.com/tutorial  Notes and demonstration on analysing observational real time data

• Manny Schegloff’s homepage, includes transcription module: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/
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• Elizabeth Stokoe: Conversations, Categories, and Applications: Methods for Analysing Interaction], March 23rd, 2011 Video
• Elizabeth Stokoe: Inaugural Lecture: http://review.lboro.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/8595ca30-f616-43d2-a402-b3438395eff7

Software

• Centre for Applied Interaction Research (University College London),Introductory reading lists, software for audio and video data manipulation, guidelines for transcription:  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cair/resources_folder

• CLAN:software for the transcription, coding, analysis, and sharing of transcripts of conversations linked to either audio or video media:info here.

• ELAN software - multimedia annotator: http://www.mpi.nl/tools/

• Transana: Qualitative analysis software for video and audio data: http://www.transana.org

Course syllabi & (PP) presentations

• Barry Brown:  lectures from his introduction to communications class, in PDF: CA, Social construction of reality, Gesture, Work

• Virginia Teas Gill:course Syllabus:  Social Interaction: PDF

Databases

• Talkbankcommunication databases (take care to read the ground rules/conditions of use): http://www.talkbank.org

• Mike Forrester’s Child CA data corpus, at the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) - http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

Other resources

• Jonathan Potter’s homepage: Resources on transcription, Publications, many of them relevant to conversation analysis: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssjap/index.htm

• Jack Sidnell’s CA glossary: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jsidnell/Sidnell.CAoverview.html

• Manny Schegloff’s homepage, Includes publications archive and transcription module: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/

• An article for a qualitative researcher readership introducing the ideas of conversation analysis, with accessible illustrations and a reading list, written by Celia Kitzinger and Merran Toerien: http://www.aqr.org.uk/indepth/summer2009/

• An online resource via ‘E-Source research’ written by John Heritage about conversation analysis, slanted towards conversation analytic research on medical settings, includes exercises for readers: http://www.esourceresearch.org/tabid/382/default.aspx

You Tube

YouTube items relevant to EM and/or CA, suggested by Jack Bilmes:

See also EMCA-relevant Media

• Jack Bilmes talking about ethnomethodology at IPRA 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMFaujW2qI
• An interview with Michael Emmison from the University of Queensland on the basic ideas and research principles of ethnomethodology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPSVvmYaaA
• Fabienne Chevalier from the university of Nottingham speaking about conversation analysis at IPRA 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLqglRwk_RQ
• Ann Weatherall discussing conversation analysis and it’s usefulness in psychology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEsZZuCYDA
• Audio: Edward Reynolds talking about ethnomethodology and conversation analysis on The University of Queensland’s JACradio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGcSIg2IJY&feature=channel

Funny videos that help explain EM/CA concepts

This from a great thread on video 'funnies' by Ruth Parry on the languse mailing list.

From Ruth Parry

• The hedge sketch – for sequencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FUZ6eUwG54
• 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
• Green Wing Sue White and her completely deviant interactional practice (buzzer) for indicating dispreferredness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBM1x5DPBXA
• Medical students’ spoof on communication skills – overdone ‘open questioning’ and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m6d95yJd8

From Adam Brandt

• 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

• But there are fleeting moments any time Larry David and/or Jerry Seinfeld are on screen. I love this tiny example, from 5:30-5:35 (this is unscripted): http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/larry-david-larry-eats-a-pancake

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

From Cade Bushnell

• 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

From John Hindmarsh

• This is one of my favourite ways to introduce the adjacency pair: It is quite long, but students get the gist of it pretty quickly so I don¹t play the whole thing: The Audition (from Mr Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ZNX1jqbOk

From Edward Reynolds

• I use this one for participation frameworks/eye contact https://vimeo.com/85448261
• It's not a video but the 'hide your pain Harold' meme works well for expression/smiling http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hide-the-pain-harold
• I use this one for second turn proof procedure, it's also naturalistic. From 0:36 onward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGXxAnYDMc
• I use this one for emblematic v's deictic gesture (it's also good for Goffman) from the old faithful seinfeld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLEaVzBMuQ

• And one of a plethora of possibilities from Borat for intersubjectivity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcWtvEzdR8 (but ensure you stop it before the racism starts at about 3:40)

From Christian Licoppe

• I have been using this classic scene from Pulp Fiction for repair/breaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR6pBGMZ90

From Jenny Mandelbaum

• The first part of this sketch from Monty Python about remedial help for having your sentences completed by others is great for introducing turn-taking, tcus, projectability, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_cRP6MhM8k

• Another Monty Python sketch, The Great Debate, is a nice way to introduce/discuss TCUs and speech exchange systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gULNoATVT1I

• This sketch from The Whitest Kids U' Know, called The New Thing, leads to great discussions about sequence organization, conditional relevance and adjacency pairs (although some find it a little violent...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpSeMIE361g

• 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

Resources on this wiki

• How to explain conversation analysis to quantitative researchers