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Main Conference | 17 July 2026
Main Conference | 17 July 2026
The main conference will be held in CL/A/057 (see Directions).
09:00 - 09:25
Arrival and coffee
09:25 - 09:30
Introduction
Invited speaker
09:30 - 10:30
Where there’s life, there is hope:
Calibrating hope in the face of impending death
Ana Cristina Ostermann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ana Cristina Ostermann is a Professor at the Instituto de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and specialises in conversation analysis, with particular interests in talk at work, interactional linguistics, and language, gender and sexuality. Much of her research examines healthcare interaction, including obstetric and gynaecological consultations and calls to health helplines, as well as the interactional accomplishment of gender and sexuality in institutional settings. She has contributed to feminist conversation analysis and to the study of language, gender and sexuality from amicroanalytic perspective. Ana Cristina's profile can be accessed here.
10:30 - 11:00
Conversations in Parkinson's disease: A combined conversation analysis and speech processing approach
Nina Diviza, University of Edinburgh
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 11:50
Prefacing the problem presentation: Turn-Initial interjections in Setswana
Malebogo (Lebo) Moji, University of York
11:50 - 12:20
Forms of participation in peer groups in inclusive school-age educare centers: How children construct intersubjectivity in play activities
Helena Myllymäki Jonsson, Linköping University
12:20 - 12:50
Finding fault in Mandarin Chinese disaffiliative interactions
Constance Kang Sun, University of York
12:50 - 13:50
Lunch and poster session
Gendered interactions during problem presentation and history taking in primary care consultations where potential cancer symptoms are being discussed: A conversation analytic study
Riya Tiwari, University of Southampton
Conversation analysis of patient requests with accounts in Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations
Nathan (Xiangjie Hao), University of York
A multimodal analysis of self- and other-correction in English change-ringing
Simon Edwards, University of York
A multimodal conversation-analytic study of the usage of the lexical item like as a resource deployed by speakers within a word-search
Jack Middleton, University of York
A multimodal study of teacher's use of directives in Mandarin language classrooms for heritage speakers
Shengjie (Fiona) Lu, University of Alberta
Gaze management in Mandarin chair-facilitated open-discussion meetings: A departure from Goodwin's gaze rules
Jerald Li, University of York
13:50 - 14:20
Disagreeing with the category-(ir)relevance in action
Satsuki Iseki, Rutgers University
14:20 - 14:50
Acceptance of nonnormative terminology in conversation
Shelby Voss, Teachers College, Columbia University
14:50 - 15:20
The use of du coup in conversational narratives: A longitudinal study
Jeanne Sciberras, Université de Neuchâtel
15:20 - 15:30
Group photo – a chance to capture the magic of YorCCA 2026!
15:30 - 15:45
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Claiming epistemic access through agreement: The response token barur 'clear' in Hebrew conversation
Ittamar Erb, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Invited speaker
16:15 - 17:15
The phonetic and social organisation of laughter
Richard Ogden, University of York
Richard Ogden is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of York. He is a phonetician and conversation analyst whose work combines phonetic detail with conversation analytic methodology to investigate how people use aspects of speech to perform social actions such as turn-taking, agreeing, and complaining. He has worked on data in English, Finnish, and British Sign Language, among others. His recent research examines non-lexical vocalisations such as clicks, swallows, and laughter. He is currently principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project Breathing behaviour and non-lexical vocalisations in talk-in-interaction, which investigates how breathing and breathing-related sounds function in everyday conversation. Richard's profile can be accessed here.
17:15 - 17:30
Closing remarks
17:30
End of YorCCA day 1!
18:30
Dinner at Red Chilli (self-funded)
Workshops | 18 July 2026
Workshops | 18 July 2026
Both workshops will run at the same time, so anyone wishing to attend will have to choose one of the two. The workshops will be in rooms V/C/109 and V/C/123 (see Directions).
Actions and collections in health interactions
Ana Cristina Ostermann
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
9:00 - 16:00
Room: V/C/109
Drawing on institutional data on health interactions, this workshop will focus on identifying a phenomenon in a dataset, building (sub)collections, and describing actions. We will work with the original recordings (in Brazilian Portuguese) and transcripts (with translations) of telephone calls between families of inpatients in critical condition intensive care and physicians. The workshop will include a talk and a variety of hands-on activities.
Introduction to the phonetics of talk in interaction
Richard Ogden
University of York, UK
9:00 - 16:00
Room: V/C/123
The workshop will cover some of the main features of the phonetics of talk-in-interaction. We will focus on listening, observing, and describing. There will be a mixture of talks and activities, and participants will be invited to contribute data to work on.
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