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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Our ICOP-L2 panel on respecifying and exploring engagement (especially in second language use or learning contexts) from an EMCA perspective came together quite well. Now to start shopping it as a special issue.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My students and I have been able to download the audio/video files recently with no problem. I haven't tried the actual CLAN/CHAT files in a long time (I just copy, paste, and revise the transcriptions), so don't know about those.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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?"

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I think what I was thinking of was a "CA-adjacent" paper by S. Iwasaki (1997) on what he called a "loop sequence". For some reason, I'd never come across the term "topic attrition", but I'll take a look. Thanks.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I just realized I must be thinking of Iwasaki's "Loop Sequence" paper.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I was digging through Schegloff '07 in that area and didn't find the repeated "yeah" thing. I'll need to look at the Mushin & Gardner stuff again for them. I'm encouraging this student to really dig into Gardner 2001 for what she's working on, as well as Schegloff '07 Ch. 7.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

One of my undergrads is using the CallFriend corpus looking at Mandarin, and in one spot the participants produce multiple minimal 嗯 to get out of a sequence but before moving into the next one. And I want to point her in the right direction but seem to have lost the neurons that info used to be on.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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?

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

One student added to her notes "Requests are like exercise. For the heavy ones, you can't just jump into them, you have to prepare." Awesome!

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Just to See Her"... wai'? my neck hurts. Booker T. and the MGs - "Booker Loo"... cool. groovin Ella Fitzgerald - "Solitude"... ooh, too mellow right now. Rancid - "Tropical London"... k. Hi-Standard - "Mosh Under the Rainbow." Got it. It'll be that kind of day.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I just deleted it completely and re-added it manually. Don't know whether that'll do anything...

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

yeah, it's definitely their AI, and the fact that there is now no human who one can contact to take care of its stupid mistakes.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'll take a look. Thank.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Great! Thank you for sharing.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thanks. I wasn't aware of this.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Awesome. Thanks! BTW, one other student wants to look at coaching and another at sports announcing, so your work is getting recommended a bunch.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

So when I entered the room, I said to the TA "イチ・イチ・キューじゃなくて、イチ・イチ・ルーになった." ["It's not ichi ichi kyuu, it's become ichi ichi rue," with ichi ichi kyuu (119) being the emergency number]. Strangely the kids actually seemed to think it was funny, or just funny enough to humor me.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

No lie detected here... (and one of the downsides of reviewing abstracts regularly)

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The last part being key, especially after listening to and analyzing so much bs. Theoretically though, emically, is jargon still "jargon" to those who understand it and use it unproblematically on a mundane basis?

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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".

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Now to find a good way to do a CA/DP study on this!

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The only real data we seemed to have gotten out of it was being able to see how the kids figured things out and explored the environment. Almost nothing useful about the language use, and certainly nothing about the benefits of the platform for learning. (4/4)

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Problem ended up being that the calibration of the headset for a JHS girl sitting down was done by a 190cm tall man standing up. So when she got into the "plane", she found herself looking up at her VR body, while her own perspective was from the aisle floor. Kid seriously freaked out. (3/4)

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

There was a VR role play where the kids were passengers on a plane interacting with flight staff (played by employees of the English village). Before the whole thing, of course, the equipment had to be calibrated. (2/4)

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

During COVID, the English Village institution in Tokyo that was allowing us to gather data launched a VR side as well. We were able to get some JHS kids to participate and one of the weirdest things happened.... (1/4)

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Seriously? Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a lawsuit.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The camera that we moved was a small handheld just for portability. Ended up not using that data as much since little interaction happened off camera (just picking up ingredients and washing hands). Stability, connectivity, and detail were the key factors for us.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The main cameras were camcorders (4k JVCs) that we got for their good rep for detail and quality. We needed to be able to capture detailed movements and facial expressions (esp. through masks - COVID times), and they had inputs for external mics, which made it easier when mixing the vids and audio

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I recorded cooking classes. 3 steady cameras at different angles (I called them N, E, and SW based on their placement in the room), each with RØDE wearable wireless mics on all participants, and one handheld camera to follow when they had to move out of the scene. Extra voice recorders for backup.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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...

theguardian.com

Deborah Cameron obituary

Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This wasn't the first Dylan song I learned as a kid (Blowing in the Wind), and it wasn't my favorite (My Back Pages), but it was the first to really make an impact on me for some reason.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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

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She Belongs To Me (Bob Dylan cover)

YouTube video by Rue Burch

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thanks! That one has been sitting in my "to read" folder for the project for awhile, but I haven't quite reached it yet.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just wanted to see what folks thought. I'm digging through the deontics lit right now (and just came across Stivers & Rossano 2010 - I'm embarrassingly late to find that one!), but the attentiveness aspect is still causing me issues on the project I'm working on.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Or how about a significant other giving minimal continuers during a story (but while turn-taking has been suspended for the story, so no substantive response is actually due)? Are continuers, newsmarkers, assessments and the like *conditionally relevant*? Does some other norm make this accountable?

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

But how about the student fiddling with their phone while a teacher talks (but not necessarily asking questions)? Is embodied attentiveness considered to be *conditionally relevant*? Or is this a matter of deontics - a teacher can command (heh heh, as if!) attention by dint of the relational pair?

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Part of this has to do with conditional relevance - if a conditionally relevant response doesn't come up in a timely manner, that's accountable. And this is perhaps the easiest way for a participant to determine whether someone is paying attention.

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