Poster: On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom Poster (PDF)
On Friday, November 25, 2011, Tanya Romaniuk and Susan Ehrlich from York University held an informative talk entitled On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom.
The speakers examined how certain conversational resources are used for specific purposes in institutional talk. They provided insights into the analysis of interaction in the courtroom. It examined how repair, a resource commonly used in any interaction, is used in the courtroom in the service of institutionally-specific tasks and constraints.
Susan Ehrlich (Professor, Linguistics and Women's Studies) has published in the areas of discourse analysis, language and gender, linguistic approaches to literature and second language acquisition. Her books include Point of View: A Linguistic Analysis of Literary Style (Routledge, 1990), Teaching American English Pronunciation co-authored with Peter Avery (Oxford, 1992) and Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (Routledge, 2001).
Tanya Romaniuk (PhD student in Applied Linguistics) has research interests in sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, language and gender, institutional talk, broadcast talk, and political communication. She is currently writing her dissertation on the interactional analysis of laughter in broadcast news interviews.
For further information about the presentation, please read the article in our newsletter Wat's In-Sight issue 5 (PDF).
November 15 to December 15, 2011
Photo exhibition: The Wall: A Border through Germany
The year 2011 marks 50 years of the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The exhibition provides insights and background information of the events from the construction of the Wall to its demolition in 1989. The language of the exhibition is English.