Dear CLIC Community, We are sorry to announce that Robin Conley’s colloquium scheduled for this Wednesday, November 4th must be cancelled due to a family emergency. We look forward to […]

The single-option dilemma: some challenges for clinicians offering patient choice in practice Dr Merran Toerien, University of York, Department of Sociology merran.toerien york.ac.uk Drawing on a conversation analytic study of […]

The UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of spontaneous social interaction in diverse cultures and contexts. Please join us […]

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"Globalization and intercultural contact: The mattering and production of difference across the mediatized centre-periphery divide"

"Praising, Criticizing and Preference: Insights from Parent-Teacher Interaction" Conversation analytic research on “preference organization” empirically demonstrates that human interaction is organized to promote social affiliation at the expense of conflict. […]

Speaking in honor of John Gumperz. Reception to follow.

"Searching for Proper Names: the Return of Denotation in Transidiomatic Interactions." Mobile people and digital technologies are transforming late-modern communication, increasing social interactions between people who lack shared language and […]

"Paper Democracy:  Introducing the Filing System in the Post-War Japanese Prosecutor's Office" “The Democratization of Office Work:  From Daifukuchō to the Filing System” Nōritsudō, 17(11):13-14, 1950) This presentation provides a semiotic […]