Poster: On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom Poster (PDF)
On Friday, November 25, 2011, Tanya RomaniukÌýandÌýSusan Ehrlich fromÌýYork University held an informative talk entitledÌýOn the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom.Ìý
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 EhrlichÌý(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 includeÌýPoint of View: A Linguistic Analysis of Literary StyleÌý(Routledge, 1990),ÌýTeaching American English PronunciationÌýco-authored with Peter Avery (Oxford, 1992) andÌýRepresenting Rape: Language and Sexual ConsentÌý(Routledge, 2001).Ìý
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.
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For further information about the presentation, please read the article in our newsletterÌýWat's In-Sight issue 5 (PDF).Ìý
November 15 to December 15, 2011
Photo exhibition:ÌýThe Wall: A Border through Germany
The year 2011 marks 50 years of the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The exhibition provides Ìýinsights and background information of the events from the construction of the Wall to its demolition in 1989. The language of the exhibition is ÌýEnglish.