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The Grammar of Collaborative Turns The book covers a research gap in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics about co-production and the emerge of syntactical structures in multiperson talk-in-interaction. The findings have...

📣 Great news: On 30/03, my monograph “The Grammar of Collaborative Turns. Temporality, Projection, Emergence and Clause Combination in Italian Talk-in-Interaction” will be out with a brilliant yellow cover for @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social #TrendsinLinguistics 📒 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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Finally, in the ISCA State of Talk podcast, Sophia Fiedler reflects with Saul Albert (Loughborough) and Hannah Pelikan (Linköping) about the evolving role of technology, robots and AI in CA and interaction more broadly. 7/8

In a reflective piece, Malebogo Moji (University of York) discusses their journey learning to use DOTE as a PhD student, describing the process of deciding which software to use for transcription, DOTE’s pros/cons compared to ELAN & learning curve. 6/8

In his report from the first EMCA “Promptathon” at Cardiff University, @saulalbert.bsky.social (Loughborough University) reports on how a group of conversation analysts met with an expert on conversational AI to put conversational AIs to the test, following the tradition of “Hackathons”. 5/8

Guillaume Gauthier (University of Basel) then gives a report on the Interdisciplinary colloquium “Conversational AI: Advances and Challenges” at the University of Basel in April 2025 exploring how the EMCA program fundamentally addresses the challenges of conversational AI. 4/8

Then Damien Rudaz reports on the workshop “Transforming interaction: A workshop on AAC, social robotics, and conversational AI” which took place in April 2025 and explored how robots, voice-based conversation agents and large language models can all be integrated into interactions. 3/8

First Damien Rudaz (University of Copenhagen) reports on the workshop “Embodied Interaction & Embodied Intelligence”, which took place in August 2025. The workshop tackled questions about human-robot interaction. 2/8

📣 Our #20 newsletter is out: The contributions to this special issue show how CA continues to be shaped by advances in technology and how conversation analysts are adapting their investigations to new and emerging technologies. Technology becomes a co-interactant worthy of analytical attention.🧵1/8

New post: Members’ Forum Newsletter #20 January 2026: Special issue on AI, robotics and technology in CA https://www.conversationanalysis.org/members-forum-newsletter-20-january-2026-special-issue-on-ai-robotics-and-technology-in-ca/ #EMCA

New post: From Clueless to Clued-In: My Journey with DOTE https://www.conversationanalysis.org/from-clueless-to-clued-in-my-journey-with-dote/ #EMCA

New post: Interdisciplinary colloquium on Conversational AI at U. Basel https://www.conversationanalysis.org/interdisciplinary-colloquium-on-conversational-ai-at-u-basel/ #EMCA

New post: Workshop “Embodied Interaction & Embodied Intelligence”, Essen (Germany), August 21-22, 2025 https://www.conversationanalysis.org/workshop-embodied-interaction-embodied-intelligence-essen-germany-august-21-22-2025/ #EMCA

New post: First Pair Prompt: report from a possible first of three EM/CA ‘promptathons’ https://www.conversationanalysis.org/first-pair-prompt-report-from-a-possible-first-of-three-em-ca-promptathons/ #EMCA

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Next CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit

📍📅 Friday 5th June 2026, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online, register: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... - fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates 💬

Hello #EMCA community!

There's been another Bluesky influx - to find #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology use these Starter Packs.

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Final talk to end on a high note this wonderful #caday2025 is the 2nd plenary talk of the day by Deborah Chinn “Conversation Analysis Research and with People with Intellectual Disabilities: a call to Action” #emca

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We’ve had an excellent virtual entry to the #CAday2025 from colleagues at Tampere University (apologies for the blurry photo - really not doing the magnificent filmmaking justice!)

Now @marcopino.bsky.social presenting on behalf of Katie Jordin et al. on gender categories in early childhood education #CAday2025

Now is Sanaa Hyder’s turn to present at #caday2025 on Culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between GPs and ethnic minority patients. Sanaa is also looking at narrative medicine.

Ole Putz is asking “are chatbots human-like interaction patterns?” in the talk “Lesson Learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction” at #CADay2025

After lunch break now and @luyang-zhou.bsky.social is presenting on Children’s Self-Selection in Pediatric Consultations in China #CAday2025

@nserverb.bsky.social presenting on Three-partedness of lists, revisiting Jefferson’s work, at #caday2025

Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter on “Are family mealtimes institutional?” Next at #caday2025