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Elizabeth Stokoe

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Professor and Academic Director of Impact at The London School of Economics and Political Science | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | HonFBPsS |qcump5rdyfo3'> @independentsage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky

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This is me and Manny at the end of the UCLA #EMCA 'bootcamp' (CA Advanced Summer Institute) in 2004 - 20 years ago, almost to the day.

RIP Manny, and thank you Stephan.

You never know where a conversation might take you 💬🙏

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Today, Stephan asked if I could pop into his office.

He had brought me a copy of the 'Lectures.'

I’m so grateful to him, and so happy to have met someone, in very unexpected circumstances, who knew Manny, and knows #EMCA

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As many will know, Manny Schegloff passed away earlier this year. Stephan wrote a note for me to pass to John Heritage: “I will remember his smile, his kindness to me, his conversation (!). Would you say that his former publisher remembers him with more than fondness?” 5/7

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I told Stephan that the 'Lectures' were now incredibly hard to find, and that my copy had actually been stolen in 2014. 4/7

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Stephan played a huge part in the publication of the 'Lectures' (the #EMCA 'bible') since, despite it being a *gigantic* book - and, at ~1500 pages, possibly not one that would be enormously profitable! - he and Manny made it happen.

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It turned out that, as a previous Director at Blackwell, Stephan met one of the co-founders of conversation analysis, Emanuel Schegloff.

Manny & co-founder Gail Jefferson were working to publish Harvey Sacks’s lectures - the third, and sadly deceased, co-founder of #EMCA.

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Sometimes, connections come in unexpected places. This is me and Stephan Chambers, Director of the LSE Marshall Institute. We met because of our roles at LSE, so I didn't expect him to start our meeting by saying, “you’re a conversation analyst!” And then the story got poignant. 🧵 1/7

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Farewell to this!

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In episode 37 of our podcast, James McElvenny interviewed Michael Lynch to discuss the history of Conversation Analysis in general and also the role of Emanuel Schegloff (1937-2024) in particular.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/02/29/p...

#Histlx

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"...the belief that there is nothing there to be discovered. Yet Schegloff repeatedly and painstakingly demonstrated that beyond this “implacable familiarity” lie fascinating and exact orders oforganization of great generality and scope."

#EMCA
#OpenAccess

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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2/3 "Schegloff once identified what he termed “the implacable familiarity” of conversational materials as an important obstacle to CA research. This familiarity of the “already known” can lead observers to doubt the point of what is being done and delude researchers into..."

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John Heritage makes such important points in his appreciation of Emanuel Schegloff #EMCA

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He "developed the field of CA, not by means of theoretical manifestos, but rather and exclusively through a series of fine-grained empirical studies of actual conduct in interaction."

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A sunny afternoon in #Cambridge with Eunice (Dr Eunice Fisher who, after 30 years of post-PhD friendship, I still refer to as my #EMCA #PhD supervisor) 🌿🌺💚🩷

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Such a wonderful mix from the difficulties of working in VR and the even greater difficulties of making sense of the recordings, to restaurant kitchens and what ‘have you got the bacon’ was accomplishing (6 potential actions by the end of the analysis).

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A collection of conversation analysts yesterday at King's College London for a series of data sessions organised (by Sylvaine Tuncer) around a visit from @penttihad.bsky.social and his colleagues from University of Oulu, plus other friends and colleagues #EMCA

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Blind person here: Garbage. A. Stop using AI for everything, it's drinking my groundwater and isn't competent at interpreting visual media, as we have repeatedly seen evidenced. B. The robot doesn't know why you put that there. Say it's a meme. Even if it identifies it, what does it MEAN?

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is convicted of all 34 counts in his New York hush money trial.

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Elizabeth Stokoe 's avatar Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social
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Very sad news from John Heritage on the death of Emanuel Schegloff:

“It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Manny Schegloff has died. He was an intellectual giant and a dear colleague who leaves an extraordinary legacy of scholarship.”

#EMCA #AcademicSky

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I'm finally attending CARM training by @lizstokoe.bsky.social and I'm loving it so far! So exciting to get to understand - through an open, honest account - how someone arrives at building a powerful tool like CARM, and to see how #conversationanlysis makes a real difference in the world😍

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I think I like this one best bc it shows the scale and the way the scale brings people together

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From the screen to the garden! 💻🌿

As the Conversation Design Institute Festival Barcelona drew to a close, it was wonderful to participate in Women In Voice's "fireside" chat with brilliant women in #AI: Exec Director of WiV Deborah Akinyele, Lisa Talia Moretti, and Tanya Van Gastel 🔥

#EMCA #CxD

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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

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It was a pleasure to catch up with Teun A. van Dijk today at Llibreria la Central to talk about all things #discourse - past, present, future - including our @saul @wyke_stommel @hbuschme frth special issue of Discourse and Communication on #EMCA and conversational technologies.

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"Conversplaining": the explanation of how conversation works, typically to a conversation analyst, in a manner regarded as dismissive, etc. It's definitely a thing, right, conversation analysis community? (with credit & apologies to Kim Goodwin)

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After a tremendous downpour, a firey #sunset above the rooftops is reflected in the puddles on the cobbles in Poblenou #Barcelona ⛈️🌦🌩🌧

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Oh, it’s a real thing I’m afraid and it’s been brewing for a while.

Many people, @spavel.bsky.social especially, have been loudly ringing the alarm for product research and designer types, but despite our efforts, exec types get themselves seduced by this same line of thinking

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I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

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Today is my final day as Prof II at University of Southeastern Norway (USN). It's been nine years since my first visit, after Prof Karianne Skovholt's delightful invitation arrived in 2015. Tusen takk to her, to USN, and to everyone I've worked with since then. I'm sure I'll return!

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Next week, as part of the Conversation Design Institute Beyond Boundaries Festival in Barcelona, I'm delighted to be taking part in this Fireside Chat and Networking Event with Lisa Talia Moretti, Tanya Van Gastel, and Women in Voice host Deborah Akinyele #CxD #Voice

Register free: lnkd.in/eV3XfStp

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It's the first day of my final week as Prof II @USN_info 🥹 (after ~9 years!) and so it was perfect to reunite with @rein_ove @DalbyLandmark @karianneskovho1 and Jessica Hansen to teach Day 1 of our annual #EMCA PhD course 💬🔍

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There's a week when the coastal forest between Skallevold and Åsgårdstrand lights up with #anemones: "All the radiance of #April lay gathered together at her feet... She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it " (Elizabeth von Arnim) 🌿

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Poems🎙️, dance💃🏻, & music 🎶, communicating the science behind communication 💬

Our public science event now available to watch anytime through the Oxford Ideas Festival website:

if-oxford.com/event/commun...

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Magical beams of #sunset through the trees in the forest in Åsgårdstrand 🇳🇴🌲

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Top ten things I hated as a child but love as an adult:   10. Buying stationery 9. Dark chocolate 8. Footnotes 7. People cancelling plans to meet up 6. Wearing a coat 5. Getting vouchers for my birthday 4. Naps 3. Not being invited to parties 2. Gherkins 1. Being a child

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Joseph Fink's avatar Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social
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I've received 12 phone calls in the last 7 days. 1 was a scheduled call with my agent, 1 was the music store Sweetwater, 10 were from scammers. We've completely ceded a former primary form of communication to fraudsters.

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