1st Edition
Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion Emerging Methods and New Technologies
This volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people – through locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices – accomplish activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as part of their everyday lives.
The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its boundaries, and paves the way for the development of future interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies, sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action.
This is key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction, discourse studies, multimodality, and more.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Tiina Eilittä, Pentti Haddington, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen & Anna Vatanen. Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: An introduction
Part 1 – Exploring ‘being a member’
2. Federico Rossano. How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities
3. Hannah Pelikan. Transcribing human-robot interaction: Methodological implications of participating machines
4. Brian Due. Ocularcentric participation frameworks: Dealing with a blind member’s perspective
Part 2 – Broadening analyst’s access to member’s perspective by using various video materials
5. Iuliia Avgustis & Florence Oloff. Collecting and analysing multi-source video data: Grasping the opacity of smartphone use in face-to-face encounters
6. Laura Kohonen-Aho & Pentti Haddington. From distributed ecologies to distributed bodies in interaction: Capturing and analyzing ‘dual embodiment’ in virtual environments
7. Pirkko Raudaskoski. 360-cameras used by a team participating in a mobile gathering
Part 3 – Augmenting analyses of member’s perspective with multiple research materials and methods
8. Antti Kamunen, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen & Pentti Haddington. Inductive approach in EMCA: The role of accumulated ethnographic knowledge and video based observations in studying crisis management training
9. Joe Blythe, Francesco Possemato, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner & Lesley Stirling. A satellite view of spatial points in conversation
10. Melisa Stevanovic. EMCA informed experimentation as a way of investigating (also) “non-accountable” interactional phenomena
Part 4 – Enhancing transparency of analytical processes
11. Paul McIlvenny & Jacob Davidsen. Beyond Video: Using Practice-based VolCap Analysis to Understand Analytical Practices Volumetrically
12. Eric Laurier & Tobias Boelt Back. Recurrent problems and recent experiments in transcribing video: live transcribing in data sessions and depicting perspective
Index
Biography
Pentti Haddington is Professor of English Language at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Tiina Eilittä is a doctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Antti Kamunen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Laura Kohonen-Aho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Tuire Oittinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Iira Rautiainen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Anna Vatanen is a researcher at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, and also affiliated with the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
The field of ethnomethodological conversation analysis (“EMCA”), like the people whose interactions EMCA researchers investigate, is in motion. This important collection showcases cutting-edge approaches in the quest to understand the multimodal, embodied, and material domains of social interaction – while critically addressing fundamental questions about what EMCA research is, should, and can be.
Elizabeth Stokoe, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
