Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture

Emma Betz (University of Waterloo)
2026-01-14 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095

Norma Mendoza-Denton (UCLA)
2025-11-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095

Mark Sicoli (The University of Virginia)
2025-05-14 17:00 - 18:30

Workshop: The Role of Social Categories in Human Interaction
2025-04-24 - 2025-04-25
Please click here to register for the event!

Olivia Marresse (66degrees)
2025-03-05 17:00 - 18:30
Please RSVP by February 28th

Nadja Tadic (Georgetown University)
2025-02-19 17:00 - 18:30
Please RSVP by February 14th 2025

Melanie Soderstrom (University of Manitoba)
2024-11-20 17:00 - 18:30
RSVP at https://bit.ly/clic-Soderstrom
Please RSVP by Friday November 15th

James Trujillo (University of Amsterdam)
2024-10-02 17:00 - 18:30
RSVP: https://bit.ly/clic-Trujillo
Please RSVP by September 27

CLIC Annual Reception
2024-09-27 17:00 - 20:00
RSVP: HTTPS://FORMS.GLE/VKJ77VEU8ALIX7BP9

2024 Summer Workshop
2024-08-04 - 2024-08-24
Download printable version here.
Please read through the FAQ page before applying.
You can apply by filling out this application form or email us at clic@ucla.edu to request an application form in PDF to be returned by email.

The 27th CLIC-GSA Conference
2024-05-17 - 2024-05-18
Call for abstract submission is now open!
More information: https://clic.ss.ucla.edu/the-27th-clic-gsa-conference/

Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)
2024-05-15 17:00 - 18:30
RSVP: https://bit.ly/clic-enfield
Please RSVP by May 10

GailBot Weekend Hackathon
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-14
GailBot is a ‘first pass’ automated transcription system designed to support conversation analytic research. Human interaction research relies on detailed transcriptions of language use (a system developed by conversation analyst Gail Jefferson, after whom GailBot is named) that are very slow and expensive to produce. GailBot makes it possible to produce first-pass detailed transcripts of dialogue at scale.
The GailBot development team will be visiting UCLA April 12th – 14th to run a ‘hackathon’ (2-4 hours per day) with the goal of adapting GailBot to fit a range of CA research workflows. Participants will learn about its capabilities, use cases, and limitations, as well as how to install, configure, and use the program. Note: Currently GailBot is only available on Mac, but the development team is working on a Linux package.
Program details coming soon, but if you have questions about coming for part of the hackathon or whether your data is appropriate, register and put your question in the form. We’ll respond.
GailBot Team:
Saul Albert — Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of Loughborough
Muhammad Umair — Department of Computer Science, Tufts
Vivian Li — Department of Computer Science, Tufts
Julia Mertens — Senior Scientist at Boston Fusion Corp.
J.P. De Ruiter — Department of Computer Science and Department of Psychology, Tufts
Learn more about GailBot here.
Please sign up for this event using this form.
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J.P. De Ruiter (Tufts University)
2024-04-10 17:00 - 18:30
Please RSVP here by Friday, April 5th.

Terra Edwards (The University of Chicago)
2024-03-06 17:00 - 18:30

David Gibson (University of Notre Dame)
2024-02-21 17:00 - 18:30

CLIC Workshop: Adopting affective stances in interaction
2024-02-01 - 2024-02-02
Adopting Affective Stances in Interaction
February 1-2, 2024
In this workshop, we will collectively examine many of the resources that speakers rely on to display emotional stances (positive or negative) towards the actions speakers are performing or the ways in which those actions are being done. Sometimes affective stances are conveyed through smiles, eyebrow furrowing, sighs, or laughter. Other times, affective stances are conveyed through lexical choices (e.g., adjective choices such as “stupid” or “fabulous”) or even grammatical resources. We will be interested in approaching the questions of how and when affective stances are displayed in conversation as well as what effect this has on interlocutors and on the conversation (e.g., leading to halts in conversation progressivity or expansion of a telling). We hope to consider the roles of various aspects of speakers’ identities as well as sequential context. Moreover, our goal is to bring the perspectives of linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, linguistics, psychology, communication, and brain injury studies to bear on this investigation.
Registration is now open! You can register for this event here.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an in-person only event. Program and event details will be emailed to registered participants approximately a week before the event. For more information, contact the CLIC coordinator at clic@ucla.edu

Leslie Pagel (Authenticx)
2024-01-17 17:00 - 18:30

Michiko Kaneyasu (University of California, Los Angeles)
2023-11-29 17:00 - 18:30

Gus Cooney (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
2023-10-18 17:00 - 18:30
Title: A New Social Psychology of Conversation
Abstract: Scholars from a variety of fields are increasingly interested in the study of conversation. However, advancing the science of conversation requires more than novel empirical findings. We also need curated datasets, new theoretical frameworks, and methodological refinements—an essential “infrastructure” that is currently lacking. In this talk, I highlight several of my recent initiatives in building this infrastructure: developing one of the largest public datasets of naturalistic conversation, the CANDOR corpus; an extensive review paper synthesizing the wide-ranging interdisciplinary history of conversation research; and new methodological techniques for effectively segmenting transcripts into turns at scale. Such innovations are crucial for bridging the gap between the micro-level dynamics of turn-by-turn conversation and the macro-level psychological judgments and impressions that result from interaction. Ultimately, these developments in data, theory, and methodology represent critical steps in the journey towards establishing a new social psychology of conversation.
Kindly RSVP by October 6 using the link below
Registration: https://bit.ly/clic-cooney

CLIC Annual Reception
2023-10-06 17:00 - 19:30
Welcome back! The CLIC Annual Reception will take place on October the 6th, 2023. Register for this event here.

The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization
2023-05-19 - 2023-05-20 | UC Santa Barbara

Lal Zimman (Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara)
2023-05-17

CLIC Workshop on Managing Competing Demands in Interaction: Identity, Cognition, and Affiliation
2023-04-27 - 2023-04-28
Organized by Giovanni Rossi (Department of Sociology, UCLA) and Tanya Stivers (Department of Sociology, UCLA)
When we interact with others, we juggle many competing pressures. We must both comprehend and produce language in a normatively tight timeframe. We need to work to try to understand and be understood by others, both semantically and pragmatically. Our self-presentations are continually adjusted for the addressee, the activity context, and the actions in which we are engaged. And, we must manage all of these factors while also working to manage our degree of affiliation with our addressees. In this workshop, we bring together speakers from a range of disciplines and methods in order to collectively explore how we balance these competing demands in real time and to what end.
Registration is now open! You can sign up for this event by completing this form.

Alexandra Paxton (Psychological Sciences - U. Connecticut)
2023-04-12
Dynamical, situated, wild: Attempts to capture the glorious mess of social interaction
Alexandra Paxton, University of Connecticut
April 12, 5pm
Social interaction is a glorious mess of multimodal communication embedded within an equally multifaceted cultural, temporal, and interpersonal context. Most people effortlessly manage that mess to connect, work, and even fight with others every day, but it poses a host of problems for the scholars interested in studying it, especially for those in traditional empirical approaches. In this talk, I present a brief overview of some ways to quantify the interconnectedness of social interaction, including both naturally occurring and experimentally derived data. In doing so, I argue that taking a complex systems approach provides methodological, analytical, and theoretical advantages to understanding social phenomena as they truly are—messiness and all.
RSPV: http://bit.ly/clic-paxton

Steven R. Quartz (Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech)
2023-03-08

Natasha Shrikant (Department of Communication, University of Colorado - Boulder)
2023-01-11

Marisa Casillas, PhD (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
2022-11-09

Waverly Duck, PhD (Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara)
2022-10-12

CLIC Annual Reception
2022-10-07
