2009 Conversation Analysis Advanced Course at Meiji Gakuin University

Instructors:
Professor Paul Drew (University of York)
Professor John Heritage (University of California, Los Angeles)

Organizers:
Aug Nishizaka
Yuri Hosoda
Shuya Kushida
Tomoyo Takagi

What's New

Thank you all for your participantion in and contributions to the seminar. Particularly, thank you immensely for the great seminar, Paul and John! [March 24, 2009]
Paul's two articles are up now. [March 24, 2009]
Exercise 1 is up now. [March 16, 2009]
The collection of data is up now. [March 16, 2009]
The schedule has been updated. [March 13, 2009]
The Data Use Agreement form for this seminar has been uploaded. Please bring it to the seminar on the first day, after printing and signing it. [March 4, 2009]
Now the pre-assignment is up. Remember that all the participants are supposed to submeit it to the instructors by February 23. 2009. [February 3, 2009]
List of Participants has been updated. [February 1, 2009]
The website for the seminar is opened. [January 28, 2009]
The pre-assignment will be distributed on February 3, 2009. [January 28, 2009]

Prospective Participants

List of Participants [February 1, 2009]

Schedule

Dates: Monday, March 16 - Friday, March 20, 2009
Hours: 9:00 - 16:00
Venue: Room 1554 (the fifth floor of the main building (Building #1))
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo

This is an approximate programme for the CA workshop, in which the emphasis will be on developing analytic skills through data sessions; working on collections; and assembling, and making preliminary analysis of, a collection. Slight changes may be made to this programme as we proceed. [Paul Drew and John Heritage]

	Monday, 16th	Tuesday, 17th	Wednesday, 18th	Thursday, 19th	Friday, 20th
9:00 - 10:25	Discussion of pre-assignment	Data session - Virginia	Talk by Paul Drew (Requesting)	Data session - Virginia	Group assignment presentations and discussion
10:35 - 12:00	Data session on the workshop focus (WF)*	Preliminary assignment on WF (small groups)	Talk by John Heritage (Epistemics)	Data session on WF	Group assignment presentations and discussion (continued)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:00 - 14:25	Working on a collection	Data session on WF	Free (working on assignment)	Supervised group work on WF assignment	Group assignment presentations and discussion (continued)
14:05 - 16:00	Exercise	Exercise	Free (working on assignment)	Exercise (on WF)	Roundup
Evening	Homework	WF assignment - working on making a collection	Working on assignment	Working on assignment	Individual Discussion

* We're not revealing at this stage what the focus of the Workshop will be. We are organising the programme around a specific activity in conversation, something that is done in conversation rather frequently. We will be providing a collection of conversations, together with interactions from other settings/corpora (medical consultations and emergency calls), which will serve as the basis for the assignment which you’ll begin on the second (Tuesday) morning, working together in pairs.

Materials

Paul's two articles are downloadable here. One of them, the complaint paper is the one that his talk in Osaka was based on. The other one is the one which he was originally going to present in Osaka.
1) Going too far
2) Requesting assistance in calls to the police
The collection of data is downloadable here.
The Data Use Agreement form is downloadable here.

Assignments

Exercise 1 is downloadable here.
Preassignment
- The preassignment is now up. Download all the materials:
  Preassignment [February 3, 2009]
  Audio Files: [MOVIE (.mov)] [WAVE (.wav)] [February 3, 2009]
  Transcript Symbols [February 3, 2009]
- Due on February 23, 2009