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Doctoral research has always been central to the work of the Centre. PhD theses completed at CASLC represent substantial original contributions to conversation analysis and interactional linguistics. Each thesis offers detailed empirical investigation of interactional phenomena across different languages, practices, and institutional settings.
Many of our postgraduates publish their research in leading international journals, further extending the impact of their doctoral work. The theses and selected publications featured here illustrate the range and depth of scholarship produced by our doctoral students.
Publications from doctoral research
Publications from doctoral research
Neyra, R., Kendrick, K. H., & Toerien, M. (2025). How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment. Journal of Pragmatics, 245, 50–64.
Jian, Z. (2024). Responsive advice-giving to troubles in supervision interaction. Discourse Studies, 26(2), 218–241.
Cantarutti, M. N. (2022). Co-Animation in Troubles-Talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 55(1), 37–58.
González Temer, V., & Ogden, R. (2021). Non-convergent boundaries and action ascription in multimodal interaction. Open Linguistics, 7(1), 685–706.
Afshari Saleh, R. (2020). Mock Aggression: Navigating Affiliation and Disaffiliation in Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 53(4), 481–499.
Kaimaki, M. (2012). Sequential and Prosodic Design of English and Greek Non-Valenced News Receipts. Language and Speech, 55(1), 99–117.
Sikveland, R. O. (2012). Negotiating towards a Next Turn: Phonetic Resources for “Doing the Same”. Language and Speech, 55(1), 77–98.
Wright, M. (2011). On clicks in English talk-in-interaction. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 41(02), 207–229.
Walker, G. (2004). On some interactional and phonetic properties of increments to turns in talk-in-interaction. In Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic Studies from Conversation (Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Cecilia E. Ford, eds.). John Benjamins, pp. 147–169.
PhD theses
PhD theses
Rickford, Rose. (2023). What are the characteristics of organisations that are able to meet need and support flourishing? An explanatory account of grassroots community organising in England and Wales during the Covid-19 pandemic. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Clare Jackson, Merran Toerien.
Jian, Zhiying. (2022). Expressing Trouble in Conversation: An Interactional Challenge and an Achievement in Student Supervision. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Merran Toerien, Kobin H. Kendrick.
Afshari Saleh, Reihaneh. (2022). Pursuits in Collision: Affiliation, Disaffiliation, and Multimodality in Persian Interaction. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Richard Ogden, Kobin H. Kendrick
Cantarutti, Marina Noelia. (2020). The Multimodal and Sequential Design of Co-Animation as a Practice for Association in English Interaction. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Richard Ogden, Merran Toerien, Beatrice Szczepek-Reed.
Holmes, Edward J. B. (2019). Interaction, Identity & Social Class. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Merran Toerien, Steph Lawler.
Yang, Yuening. (2019). The Management of Topics in Ordinary Conversation. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisor: Paul Drew.
Abd Rahman, Nurul Firdauz Binti. (2018). A Conversation Analysis of Facebook Confessions Pages: Identity and Identification. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Darren Reed, Clare Jackson.
Walper, Katherina. (2018). Multimodal elicitations in Chilean secondary EFL classrooms. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Heather Marsden, Darren Reed.
Gonzalez Temer, Veronica. (2017). A multimodal analysis of assessment sequences in Chilean Spanish interaction. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Richard Ogden, Merran Toerien.
Bengsch, Geraldine. (2016). Interactional structures and engagement in service encounters: An investigation into communication at the hotel front desk. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Beatrice Szczepek-Reed, Darren Reed.
Choi, Hyangmi. (2016). Contextual and Cultural Differences in Speaker-Audience Interaction in Korean Political Oratory. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisors: Peter Bull, Darren Reed.
Sikveland, Rein Ove. (2011). Co-ordination of speech and gesture in sequence and time: Phonetic and non-verbal detail in face-to-face interaction. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisor: John Local.
Kaimaki, Marianna. (2009). Phonetic resources and interactional function in English and Greek conversation: Variation and constraints. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisor: John Local.
Wright, Melissa. (2005). Studies of the phonetics-interaction interface: clicks and interactional structures in English. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisor: Richard Ogden.
Walker, Gareth. (2004). The phonetic design of turn endings, beginnings and continuations in conversation. PhD thesis, University of York. Supervisor: Richard Ogden.
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