Critical Conversation Analysis

Hansun Zhang Waring is Professor in the Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. She is founder of LANSI (The Language and Social Interaction Working Group) and the co-editor of Storytelling in Multilingual Settings: A Conversation Analytic Perspective (with J. Wong, Routledge, 2021).Nadja Tadic is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA. Her research addresses issues of diversity, discrimination and social (in)justice through the lens of critically motivated conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis.

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordSeries Editors' PrefaceChapter 1. Nadja Tadic and Hansun Zhang Waring: Introduction Part 1: Reproducing Inequality and InjusticeChapter 2. Nadja Tadic, Hansun Zhang Waring and Elizabeth Reddington: Investigating Raciolinguistic Ideologies in InteractionChapter 3. Elliott M. Hoey and Chase Wesley Raymond: Racist Renditions: Mock Language in InteractionChapter 4. Scott Saft: Talk in Local News Broadcasts: Reinforcing Negative Views towards the Hawaiian LanguageChapter 5. Catherine L. Tam, Kevin A. Whitehead and Geoffrey Raymond: Inequality in Action: Granting Emergency Service Requests in a Highly Resource-Constrained ContextChapter 6. Di Yu: Delegitimizing the 'Other' at US Congressional Town Hall MeetingsPart 2: Resisting Inequality and InjusticeChapter 7. Innhwa Park and Santoi Wagner: Negotiating Power Inequalities in Joint Decision-Making in a Faculty MeetingChapter 8. Sarah Chepkirui Creider: I'm Just Saying: Being Explicit in a Mixed-Race Conversation about RacismChapter 9. Lillian Cheeks and Kevin A. Whitehead: Using Racial Incompetence as a Comedic Device and Tacit Method of Anti-Racist EducationPart 3: A Final ArgumentChapter 10. Elizabeth Stokoe and Saul Albert: 'Just a Method in Search of a Problem?' The Power of Conversation AnalysisIndex

At last, a volume devoted to the promise of CA and MCA for equity-oriented praxis in applied linguistics. Waring and Tadic's timely collection substantively advances the debate about “motivated” CA and MCA, and will be of relevance to apprentice and experienced researchers concerned with how inequity and social injustice are produced, reproduced, and resisted in interaction.