This workshop is designed to help you think through conceptual issues and develop practical skills required for doing cross-linguistic CA work – whether you are in the middle of, are planning to do, or are entertaining the thought of one day doing a cross-linguistic project. We discuss (your) motivations for doing cross-linguistic CA research and explore pathways into analysis best fitted to specific research interests. We also touch upon issues concerning the compatibility of research traditions across languages and things to consider when reviewing the literature for your study.

While there is by now a substantial amount of CA-informed research that examines differences and similarities in social interaction across languages and cultures using quantitative analysis methods, there has been less sustained engagement with the study of qualitative similarities and differences in social interaction across languages. The focus in this workshop is on qualitative explorations (i.e., this is not a workshop on coding data for quantitative analysis). For hands-on work, we will make available a small collection of explicit account solicitations (e.g., English why?) accomplished with diverse lexical resources across languages. There will also be time for working on and with participants’ data. 

Facilitate by: Sophia Fiedler and Jörg Zinken