Glossolalia, Cacophony, Intensity This paper discusses glossolalia (“speaking in tongues”) and the ritual production of cacophony in settings of fervent group prayer among Protestant Christians in Seoul. Ethnographic field data […]

Please join us as we launch the 2016 Winter Quarter with select presentations from members of our CLIC Community. Following this, join us for dinner to catch up with old […]

  Sociolinguistic Variation and Degrees of Embodiment   Penelope Eckert, Stanford University, Departments of Linguistics & Anthropology eckert stanford.edu Progress towards an understanding of linguistic variation as a robust social […]

The clause as a unit in grammar and interaction: The case of Finnish and Japanese UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Linguistics Colloquium Co-Sponsored by UCLA Center for Language, […]

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. […]