This article reviews two related approaches—conversation analysis (CA) and membership
categorization analysis (MCA)—to sketch a systematic framework for exposing how …

When repairing a problem in their talk, speakers sometimes do more than simply correct an
error, extending the self-correction segment to comment on, repeat, apologize, and/or reject …

The current socio‐political circumstances in the United States (US), constituted by the
increasing visibility of police shootings of Black people, present a compelling moment for …

This article examines features of preference organization in disaffiliative responses to
possibly racist actions, drawing on a corpus of more than 120 hours of recorded interactions …

Conversation analysis strives to use naturalistic data in its research, but the definition of
“natural” is often unclear (Speer, 2002) and can be at odds with both ethnomethodological …

" Friends don't let friends skip leg day."" You shall not pass!"" I'll be back." The way we read
these lines-whether or not you picture Gandalf, hear the deep monotone of the Terminator …

This article addresses relationships between micro and macro aspects of language use
through analyzing online interactions among neighbors discussing racism in their …

This article examines sequences of interaction in which speakers utter a possible-ism, that
is, something possibly racist, sexist, or otherwise prejudiced, in the course of making …

In everyday life we may hear someone being racist or saying something otherwise
objectionable in a public space. Calling out that person for being discriminatory is generally …

This study examines interviewers' practices in managing conflicting institutional expectations
of neutrality and rapport in interview interaction which are complicated by the normative …