Elliott Hoey is an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit. His work has covered a broad range of settings (copwatching, palliative care, construction work), topics (conversational openings, grammatical constructions, third party involvement), and phenomena (sighing, drinking, silence). In addition to dozens of articles and chapters, Elliott wrote the first major treatment of lapses in his monograph When Conversation Lapses: The Public Accountability of Silent Copresence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is a co-editor (with Alexandra Gubina and Chase Wesley Raymond) of a major encyclopedic work, The Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.