Rue
@rue-burch.bsky.social
Please don't follow unless you're an academic. Personal Views. Associate Professor at Nanzan University 南山大学-国際教養学部 Conversation Analysis, TBLT, Motivation & Engagement, Language Assessment, Music Enthusiast, Aging punk living in Mattersville
Did a little #EMCA something for the university's in-house journal. Nothing spectacular but may be of interest to some. nanzan-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2002... Burch, A.R. (2026). Getting to Know You: Self-Introduction Practices and Participation Frameworks in Task-Focused Interaction.
Finally got my copy. It's wild to have a chapter among these folks - equal parts "wow, cool" and "how the hell did I manage this?"
Need some memory help from the #EMCA folks. I know there is a paper/chapter about the space after a sequence where participants may repeat "yeah" or "hm hmm" multiple times before moving into the next sequence. But I can't find it and nothing pops up in my searches. I'm not imagining it, right?
#EMCA Had to do a lecture about my field to our whole 1st year cohort this week, and instead of having them do "reaction papers" (2/3 of which end up being AI every time), I had them turn lecture notes showing their responses to questions and quick analyses of request sequences.
This morning's musical whiplash, courtesy of my media player's shuffle: Josh Tillman - "Master's House"... mellow. Killswitch Engage - "A Bid Farewell"... wai'? wasn't expecting that. Poison Idea - "Humanity"... okay, getting where i need to be
I've got a chapter coming out in a Routledge handbook, but it isn't out yet. Google Scholar already has two citations for it, one dated 2024 and the other 2013(!). Neither mention me or my field anywhere. Anyone know how to get rid of them? Nothing I'm finding online helps.
#EMCA hive mind Does anyone know of any research on parliamentary interaction (i.e. UK, etc... PM vs opposition MP type discussion)? I could have sworn I'd read some, but can't seem to find it. Two of my students are interested in comparing Japanese PM/MP debates with other contexts.
Got a new toy for under 1000円 (less than $10). Looks a little worn, but plays well. I've been wanting to explore one of these for awhile.
Sometimes a dad joke/オヤジギャグ lands in the right way. A couple students just came to ask if I could go to our TA space to answer some questions about their homework, saying it was an emergency.
No lie detected here... (and one of the downsides of reviewing abstracts regularly)
There must be a good way to research this within an #EMCA/#DiscursivePscychology framework... And not just in the business world, but of course within the academic world as well, maybe building off of Billig's "writing badly".
Elizabeth Stokoe@lizstokoe.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Workers most excited and impressed by... corporate bullshit (a specific type of bullshit that uses puzzling corporate buzzwords and jargon and is ultimately 'semantically empty and often confusing', may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions."
Rubio said "we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline". Yeah. You're clearly being as disrespectful and destructive as possible. And you sure ain't "caretaking" shit... you're pushing everything positive about our alliances off a cliff.
Sad to hear that Deborah Cameron has passed (at a rather young age at that). She was highly influential in the field of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, and was one of the first people I read early on who helped draw attention to criticality in discourse. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Deborah Cameron obituary
Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences
theguardian.com
A cover of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me". I did all vocals and instruments (though cheated on the drums by using finger drums - no option for a real kit in my tiny apartment). youtu.be/RQtanW4dk9c
She Belongs To Me (Bob Dylan cover)
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Reaching out to #EMCA folks. I'm trying to work my head around an issue: the accountability of attentiveness. I've yet to find a source specifically about this, but some bits and pieces are starting to come together.
If you have a few minutes, please watch Carney's speech at Davos. He is speaking the truth about international cooperation or the lack thereof, and is taking a risk in doing so. youtu.be/-9EFPdcSot0?...
FULL SPEECH: PM Carney’s Most Inspiring Remarks at Davos — Greenland, Trump Tariff Threats | AQ1B
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I pledge allegiance to the world Nothing more and nothing less than my humanity
this from DHS. it is anti-Somali bigotry. i'd like to ask them what they're doing about the terrorists they employ.
Something I've never noticed before but *seems* to be a positive(?) move: Native American reservations are now listed on Google Maps. I'm curious what people (particularly people who actually have a stake in this representation) feel about it.
I introduced my 4th year student who is using MCA to analyze discourse surrounding DEI to Jack Bilmes' occasioned semantics and taxonomy work, and she immediately started applying his way of visualizing the ideas to her thesis. I gotta say, it brings a happy tear to my eye to see it.
私は日本の会社知らないけど、大学の事務はよく大きいExcelのテーブルから小さいPDFに作成して字がすごく小さくて見づらい。大きいモニターにも拡大しても目がすごい疲れる。皆その小さい字どうやって読むの？年取ったらどうする？本当に見える？
A nice look back at Labov's "Department Store" study (one of the foundational sociolinguistic studies) by one of his last students. If you're a linguist or have learned about the study in a linguistics class, this is worth a watch. youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...
Are we WRONG about most FAMOUS LINGUISTICS experiment??
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When research is largely written by AI, only to be read by AI, what "new knowledge" will actually mean anything? And will the effect that has on the publish or perish paradigm be a positive or negative thing?
