Ahhhhhh!!!! Okay, so this started as me writing some observations from a collection of academic articles I wanted to read to discuss in something I’m writing. I have instead gone insane. So please, have these words. While working on something else, I have found myself finally actually reading some of the conversation analytic research by Continue reading

I immediately failed to regularly contribute to this blog. I do however have things I want to write and they should be appearing very soon. Look to the skies. Continue reading

This is part of something I tried to write for submission which would discuss how ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) might impact how we think about contact and interaction between Earth and extraterrestrial aliens. I wanted to link this to EMCA takes on identity/membership, accomplishment of interactional competence, and marginalised people on Earth. Here I Continue reading

Kia ora koutou. It appears I have awoken a blog. Due to the increasingly chaotic scene on Twitter, I have found I needed a new outlet. While this blog doesn’t afford us the same social interactional setting as Twitter does, I think the microblogging thing was never really going to be for me; its not Continue reading