The University of Queensland

Graduate Student, School of Journalism and Communication

Thesis Title: Enticing a Challengeable During Arguments: Sequence, Category and Action in Practice.

Richard Fitzgerald
Rod Gardner

About

I study social interaction in its many forms. My doctoral research is focused on arguments between members of groups as they occur in various settings (protests and similar sorts of events). I'm interested in the intersection between the discursive construction of groups and organisation of these conflicts.

In particular I'm looking at a form of 'enticing' trap questions that depart from the normal trajectory of argument talk using 'obvious' questions to maneuver an opponent into a position where they can be challenged based on inconsistent or incompatible categories.

My previous research was on lying, using conversation analysis to investigate data from real-time television shows.

I also maintain the website for the Australian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis http://aiemca.net/. As a part of this I have a youtube channel on which I host interviews with prominent academics in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. You can see the videos at www.youtube.com/aiemca/

Contact Information

Homepage:

http://www.uq.edu.au/sjc/current-rhds-ereynolds

IM:

www.twitter.com/Edward_Reynolds
http://aiemca.net/

 
Language & Communication
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Discourse & Society

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