October | 2015 | Language and Social Interaction

Brion van Over, Manchester Community College

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the department of communication at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT. I finished my PhD in May 2012 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While attending UMass I worked most closely with Dr. Donal Carbaugh, my advisor and chair of my dissertation committee, as well as Dr….

Hsin-I Sydney Yueh, Northeastern State University

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern State University. I received my PhD from the University of Iowa in 2012. My advisor was Kristine Muñoz. What LSI pieces of writing have inspirational to you as a researcher? I switched my research focus from media to language and culture in…

Mark Ward, University of Huston-Victoria

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Mark in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below. Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where…

Patricia O. Covarrubias, University of New Mexico

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Saila in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below. Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where…

Saila Poutiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Gonen Dori-Hacohen, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Gonen in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below. Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where…

Daniel Chornet, Saint Louis University, Madrid

http://danielchornet.weebly.com/ The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Daniel in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click here: Daniel Chornet interview (mp3) Where did you receive your degree? I studied…

Alena L. Vasilyeva, Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus

What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? It’s quite a challenge to single out only one inspirational piece of writing out of many outstanding ones. At different moments of my career as an LSI researcher, the ideas of Bakhtin, Sacks, Goffman, Jacobs and Jackson, just to name a…

Santoi Wagner, University of Pennsylvania

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/swagner What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? I think I’m going to be greedy here and claim two entire books. The first is Paul Drew and John Heritage’s (1992) masterpiece collection Talk at work. As a graduate student venturing into the field of discourse, Talk at work…

Michelle Scollo, College of Mount Saint Vincent

http://www.mountsaintvincent.edu/6131.htm What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? There are so many pieces of LSI writing that have been and continue to be a source of inspiration and wonder for me. While it is difficult to select one, the one that has been most inspirational and foundational to…