Recruiting students who have a passion for Conversation Analysis (CA) to join my lab as graduate students at Utsunomiya University.

I am deeply fascinated by the profound beauty and incredible possibilities of CA. Emanuel A. Schegloff, who systematized CA, has stated (Čmejrková and Prevignano 2003: 49) "I can’t tell you the number of students who’ve told me later on how this work has changed their lives". I certainly share the same experience as those students.

However, Schegloff also remarked that learning CA is "quite different from simply taking on a new academic subject," requiring "painful reorientation" on "a long, hard road." "If they are not prepared for this, if they must get big payoffs early on, this may not be the way to go." 

Therefore, before deciding to study in this lab, please carefully reconsider whether learning CA is truly necessary for you.

Čmejrková, Svetla and Carlo L. Prevignano, 2003, "On Conversation Analysis: An Interview with Emanuel A. Schegloff," Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault, eds., Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff, pp. 11–55. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.