Data sessions in CA and other disciplines Viewing

‘Data sessions’ in CA and other disciplines Viewing, commenting on and analysing short stretches of discourse data collaboratively in order to • Help identify candidate phenomena worthy of more detailed analysis; • Enforce rigour in analysis as you attempt to provide evidence for analytical claims; • Generate new paths to pursue in your analysis, including: – Addressing issues that might have passed unnoticed – Identifying related fragments and building collections – Identifying further information needed in interviews with members of the setting; – Reflecting on better ways of collecting further data Heath, Hindmarsh and Luff (2010: 102)

‘Data sessions’ in our course • ‘Illustrative data sessions’: – designed to demonstrate how to approach data from a perspective introduced in a lecture – using data from tutors – draws on prior analytical work by tutors – Thus data session is pedagogized/recontextualised • Data sessions using data from course participants

Today’s data session • Introduction to data session procedures: – – – Context Watching it twice, without transcript Discussion in pairs Introduction of key concepts and frameworks Using key concepts to analyse data • ‘Tasters’ of the three main analytical approaches of the course – micro-analysis – multimodal analysis – Trans-contextual analysis • Using data from Celia Roberts and others collected for research funded by Department for Work and Pensions

Context Interviewer ‘R’ Interviewer ‘D’ Candidate ‘Pippa’

Job interview • Internal candidate • Interviewer ‘Roger’ is a HR manager • Interviewer ‘Daniel’ is an operational manager

Discussion • What’s going on? • How do you know?