Burak Tekin

The social accountability of burn displays - Hanna Svensson, Sofian A. Bouaouina, Guillaume Gauthier, 2025 This study examines the social accountability of displaying to burn oneself during naturally occurring joint cooking activities. The sequential, multimodal anal...

🔴 New #EMCA article on “The Social Accountability of Burn Displays” by Hanna Svensson, Sofian A. Bouaouina and Guillaume Gauthier; #EMCA #Interaction #Embodiment #Multimodality #Sensorialiry
 
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#EMCA alert!
The 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis is taking place 25-27 March 2026 in Mannheim, Germany.

The theme is Technology Use and Social Interaction, and it has a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers and workshop leads!
www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education This volume brings together studies that document practice-based changes in which conversation analysis plays a role.

Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom

A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions The topic of simultaneity has recently been debated within multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA), interrogating the intricate temporal relations betwe…

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Our recent paper examines the details of professedly simultaneous phenomena (e.g., choral actions).

We argue that simultaneity is a gloss for describing temporal relations, and “sequentiality is the organizational principle securing their actual accomplishment”.

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The next ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University on 🗓️24-26 August 2026🗓️
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More details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for abstracts, and more, coming soon!

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The Interaction Engine Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine

New book by Steve Levinson on social interaction, human communication, cross-cultural universals, and the evolution of language. It's open-access, so go grab the PDF now!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

An insightful and significant Festschrift, for the continually insightful and significant Michael Lynch, published in Ethnographic Studies.

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The intelligibility of mobile trajectories: walking in public space This paper deals with practices of personal mobility in public space, such as walking, passing-by and queuing, and their intelligible, recognizable and intersubjectively coordinated character. Peop...

New paper out in Mobilities #EMCA

“The intelligibility of mobile trajectories: walking in public space”

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Instructing Hugs for the Photograph: The Local Achievement of Haptic Compositions and Their Public Visibility Hugs are a pervasive practice characterizing human sociality. They involve the persons engaged in hugging as well as other persons who might witness it for various purposes. This article examines t...

Our paper is now assigned to an issue in Discourse Processes.

If you are into instructions, haptic sociality (esp hugging) or family photography, you may find it relevant:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks, Dirk!

Disciplined body: How players design their game movements for the machine This study examines disciplined body in video game playing activities in which players produce their game moves with their bodies. Disciplined body re…

New paper published in @dcmjournal.bsky.social

It explores how players discipline their bodies in order to produce the game movements in ways that will be recognizable by the machine.

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Summary of findings about how the disciplined body involves designing movement so that these can be easily recognised by the machine.

🚨New paper published!🚨
In this paper @BurakSTekin analyses the "disciplined body" in video games🎮.
Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, insights are gained on the relation between humans and machines.
Highlights 🔽
🔗 bit.ly/3OM8ABS