The abstract of a new ROLSi.net blog on analysing the client centred psychotherapy of Carl Rogers, by Yuanyuan Zhang of Loughborough University

A new guest blog: analysing the structure of Carl Rogers's Client-Centered Therapy.

Rogers was one of the most influential psychotherapists of the late 20th century. Unusually, he left a legacy of therapy sessions recorded on film, a few of which are available on YouTube.

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Open Conversation: Navigating power in international interactions: a view across languages and cultures This Open Conversation explores how power relations are shaped not just by politics and economics, but by the everyday ways we address and interact with each other — across languages, cultures, and in...

On 22 May, we're hosting a @circleu.bsky.social Open Conversation on "Navigating power in international interactions: a view across languages and cultures".
You can join us online.
Register here before 21 May: www.circle-u.eu/events/open-...

Announcing the ROLSI award for Outstanding Research by an Early-Career Researcher. The journal Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI) is pleased to announce an award for early-career researchers, to be competed for by those presenting a paper at the ICCA conference in Edmonton, Canada, June 2026. The prize will be awarded on the basis of a single-authored written research paper representing a single-authored presentation accepted for the conference. It is open to those who have been awarded their doctorate no earlier than five years from June 28, 2026. Deadline: May 30th, 2026. Enquiries: rolsi.journal@gmail.com

Announcing the inaugural ROLSI Award for Outstanding Early-Career Research

Were you awarded your PhD since June 2021?
Presenting at ICCA in Edmonton?

Go in for the award!

For more information, contact the Editors. : rolsi.journal@gmail.com

Announcing the ROLSI award for Outstanding Research by an Early-Career Researcher. The journal Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI) is pleased to announce an award for early-career researchers, to be competed for by those presenting a paper at the ICCA conference in Edmonton, Canada, June 2026. The prize will be awarded on the basis of a single-authored written research paper representing a single-authored presentation accepted for the conference. It is open to those who have been awarded their doctorate no earlier than five years from June 28, 2026. Deadline: May 30th, 2026. Enquiries: rolsi.journal@gmail.com

Announcing the inaugural ROLSI Award for Outstanding Early-Career Research

Were you awarded your PhD since June 2021?
Presenting at ICCA in Edmonton?

Go in for the award!

For more information, contact the Editors. : rolsi.journal@gmail.com

A colourful pile of Potter and Hepburn Emotionography books.

They're here!

Emotionography: Theory, Research and Practice is published today. A book Alexa Hepburn and I have been building toward for thirty years. Here's why we think it matters. 🧵
Available now from APA with links to Kindle and Vital Source - www.apa.org/pubs/books/e...

graphic that reads 'we're hiring: LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods'

🎓️ We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods

We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Applications close👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Newsletter Panel Abstract Submissions are Open

IIEMCA is coming to Wits in 2027. Are you ready? iiemca27.org/so/3aPou_-DX...

Off we go! An exciting international programme awaits us today here at the IDS in Mannheim 👌🏻 #AGF2026

L2 grammar-body interface: Project description Project description The grammar-body interface in second language interaction: a developmental perspective This project examines how bodily actions and grammar interact in L2 French and Swedish. Usi...

Very interesting new Swiss/Swedish project now offering PhD and postdoc positions

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The next big shindig for big-tent Pragmatics people (including lots of CA) will be in Helsinki - one of Europe's most beautiful cities.

Call for Reviewers, Chairs, & Respondents - National Communication Association The National Communication Association invites scholars, practitioners, and advanced graduate students to contribute to the success of our Annual Convention by serving as reviewers, session chairs, an...

call for reviewers for the Language and Social Interaction division of NCA! If you are an expert in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, or related fields, I'd be grateful (as program planner) if you could take a few minutes to sign up as a reviewer by March 25! www.natcom.org/call-for-rev...

"Qualitative methods are criticized [because they] don't provide “hard” data. [On] inspection, hard data turn out to be produced by unavoidably “soft” human interaction & activities. That means that psychologists must work directly with what people do & say" 1/2

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Does anyone know any criticism of "open-ended questions" or discussions of their limitations (esp. in the context of police interviews)? #linguistics

The Next-Turn Forum:
Emerging CA-SLA Research in Dialogue

Kobe, Japan
8 August 2026

A supportive venue for graduate students to present work in progress in Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition.

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www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr... @darg-sessions.bsky.social

Great to see the terrific York team @richardogden.bsky.social and @marinanc.bsky.social land this exciting new grant with colleagues in Germany.

Call for Editor for Symbolic Interaction!

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) invites applications for Editor(s) of the journal Symbolic Interaction for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2027.

More info: sssi.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Edi...

SSSI 2026 award nominations open:
-George Herbert Mead Award
-Charles Horton Cooley Book Award
-Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
-Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award
-The Kathy Charmaz Early-In-Career Award
Submission details available at symbolicinteraction.org/CallforAwards

Detail from a map of bluesky users, showing the CA community (with ROLSI's account in the centre) and its near neighbours, academic linguists and progressives

Intriguing to see where in the BlueSky universe CA users sit, and pleasing that the journal is at the heart of the community.

bluesky-map.theo.io

Grants 2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support lin…

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences?

Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant!
Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com

lingcomm.org/grants/

PhD course: Conversation analysis (CA) and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge This course is aimed at PhD candidates who investigate interaction in various everyday- and institutional contexts.

PhD course: April 7-9, 2026

Conversation analysis and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts, USN Norway

Application deadline: March 1, 2026.

www.usn.no/activities/p...

A paragraph from Dorothy Bishop's blog post, recommending that publishers consult PubPeer to identify potential problems with papers they publish

PubPeer contributors do an admirable job of trying to keep science honest.

In her latest blogpost, @deevybee.bsky.social notes "58% of highly-cited papers that were annulled between 2021-2025 had prior PubPeer comments".

deevybee.blogspot.com

Publishers: a free alert to potential problems

A really excellent example of a CA research-based applied workshop, tried and tested over many years of development.

Doctoral Researcher, English, Languages and Literature, Faculty of Humanities We are now looking for a Doctoral Researcher to join us in the research unit of Languages and Literature (English) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is part of the SafeEarth research program

Hiring! 📢 We have a three-year position open at the University of Oulu for a Doctoral Researcher in English. Not only will you get to study social interaction in an interesting setting, you'll also get to work with the nicest* people in the business. See announcement below.

*biased statement

Hello #EMCA community!

There's been another Bluesky influx - to find #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology use these Starter Packs.

Let me know if you'd like to be added (check you're not there first) and repost this!

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Latest articles from Research on Language and Social Interaction Browse the latest articles and research from Research on Language and Social Interaction

Volume 58 Issue 4 of Research on Language and Social Interaction now out online

Hospital hand-overs
Troubles talk
Newborn announcements
Hebrew "yes?"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c...

List of those who reviewed submissions for ROLSI in the period 1 August 2024 to 31st of July 2025

ROLSI would not prosper as it does without the unselfish collegiality of those who give up their time to review submissions.

We would like to record our thanks to all in the list below, who provided reviews in the period 1st August 2024 – 31st July 2025

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The next iteration of the New Developments in Ethnomethodology meeting will take place at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sierre from 27 to 29 May 2026.

You can still submit abstracts of approx. 300 words (+ references) to jakub.mlynar@hevs.ch by 12 January (AoE).

Full abstract here: t.ly/d3FSP

#EMCA