Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies

This volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people – through locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices – accomplish activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as part of their everyday lives.

The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its boundaries, and paves the way for the development of future interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies, sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action.

This is key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction, discourse studies, multimodality, and more.

Pentti Haddington is Professor of English Language at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Tiina Eilittä is a doctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Antti Kamunen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Laura Kohonen-Aho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Tuire Oittinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Iira Rautiainen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Anna Vatanen is a researcher at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, and also affiliated with the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.