Language and Social Interaction

Description for The Language and Social Interaction Group 

The Language and Social Interaction Group at UM brings together researchers interested in Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Communication and Ethnomethodology. Researchers affiliated with the group share an interest in examining how language and non-verbal resources are deployed in meaning making procedures in social interaction and a commitment to close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. 

Team Members

Dr. Ricardo Moutinho
Dr. Ricardo Moutinho
PhD Student
Mr. Sandro Henrique Brincher (interaction in online games) 
Mphil Students 
Lee Szu-Yu (interaction in astronomy outreach/communication events) 
Wang Rui (interaction in storytelling courses) 
Du Yuting (interaction in kindergarten-level classes) 
Xiao Lu Yao (interaction in food delivery services) 
Dr. Younhee Kim
Dr. Younhee Kim
PhD Students
Ms. Huimin Chen (Morality and Emotion Socialization in Parent-child Interaction) 
Ms. Nguyen Thi Xuan Hue (Reference Practice in Vietnamese and English) 

Projects

Dr. Ricardo Moutinho
  • Investigating guided-tour interactions in astronomical observatories (FDCT0054/2019/A1)
  • Senquentiality and intersubjectivity in L2 classroom discourse (MYRG2016-00003-FAH) 
  •  Tacitly assumed conventions in food delivery service: Navigating daily contingencies and formal regulations as observable in videos on Bilibili SSHRE23-APP052-FAH 
Dr. Younhee Kim
  • Learning to use language: Bilingual Preschool children’s development of Interactional Competence (MYRG2020-00068-FAH) 
  • Emotion displays in moments of conflict in parent-child interaction 

Publications

Dr. Ricardo Moutinho
Journal Articles
– Moutinho, R.; Carlin, A. P.; Marques, J. B. V. (2022). Visually informed accounts: instructed achievements during planetarium visits. Visual Communication, online first: DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14703572221130441  
– Marques, J. B. V. & Moutinho, R. (2022). A guided tour in the geophysical and astronomical observatory of the University of Coimbra: setting specific practices in an informal educational environment. Educational Studies, online first: DOI: 10.1080/03055698.2022.2049594  
– Marques, J. B. V.; Carlin, A. P.; Gomes, M. & Moutinho, R. (2021). Periodicity and change: Talking about time inside the planetarium dome. Science Education, 105(6): 1252-1284. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sce.21681   
– Carlin, A. P; Marques, J. B. V. & Moutinho, R. (2021). Seeing by proxy: specifying “professional vision”. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 30: 100532 (online first). DOI: 10.1016/j.lcsi.2021.100532   
– Moutinho, R. & Carlin, A. P. (2021). Learning moments as inspectable phenomena of inquiry in a second language classroom. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 79(1): 80-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/21.79.80
– Morelo, B. & Moutinho, R. (2021). Contando histórias: Categorização de pertencimento e instruções-em-ação em um ambiente de ensino e aprendizagem de PLA. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 21(1): 155-195. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-6398202116044  
– Brincher, S. & Moutinho, R. (2021). The intricacies and overlaps of Lebenswelt and Spielwelt during an instructed match of Counter Strike: GO. Ethnographic Studies, 18: 238–262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5805426 
Book Chapters
– Moutinho, R. (in print) Using publicly available data as a source of inquiry in video-based praxiological analyses. In: M. Gill and C. Schorfheide (eds.) SAGE Research Methods Cases 
– Moutinho, R. (2021). Sacks and the study of the local organization of second language lessons. In: R. Smith, R. Fitzgerald, and W. Housley (eds.) On Sacks: Materials, Methods and Inspirations (pp. 172-181). London: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429024849   
– Marques, J. B. V.; Carlin, A. P. & Moutinho, R. (2021). Investigating learning moments in astronomical observatories using video-recorded data. In: M. Gill and C. Schorfheide (eds.) SAGE Research Methods Cases, (pp. 1-17). DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529757989
Dr. Younhee Kim
Articles
Kim, Y-h. (In Press). Doing “being friends” in conversation-for-learning: From language learner-tutor to buddies. In C. Bushnell & S. Moody (Eds.), Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives. Routledge. 
Jin, Y., Kim, Y-h., & Chen, H. (2022). Alignment, affiliation, and engagement: Mothers’ wow in parent-child interactions. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 55(3), 279-298. https://doi-org.libezproxy.um.edu.mo/10.1080/08351813.2022.2101299 
Kim, Y-h. & Carlin, A. P. (2022). Nextness and story organization: ‘My day’ sequences in parent-child interaction. Text & Talk. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0137 
Kim, Y-h. & Carlin, A. P. (2022). Story Appreciation in Conversations-For-Learning: Stories and Gestalt-Contextures. In A. Filipi, B. Ta & M. Theobald (Eds.), Storytelling practices in home and educational contexts: Perspectives from Conversation Analysis. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9955-9_11 
Jin, Y. & Kim, Y-h. (2022). Dietary advice in chronic care: Comparing traditional Chinese and western medicine practiced in mainland China. Social Science & Medicine, 292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114621 
Jin, Y., Kim, Y-h., & Carlin, A. P. (2022). Co-Topical Small Talk: Troubles-Telling in Traditional Chinese Medical Encounters. Applied Linguistics, 43(3), 493-516. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab057 
Kim, Y-h. & Tse Crepaldi, Y. (2021). “What? Olaf is the taxi driver?”: Co-construction of spontaneous fantasy narrative in pre-schoolers’ pretend play interaction. Special Issue in Research on Children and Social Interaction. 5(1), 103-128. https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.18056 
Carlin, A. P., & Kim, Y-h. (2021). Longitudinal conversation analysis of parent-child interaction: Small data and interdisciplinary work in linguistics and sociology. Sage Research Methods Cases Part I. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529757248 
Kim, Y-h., & Tse Crepaldi, Y. (2021). Co-constructed storytelling as a site for socialization in parent-child interaction: A case from a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Journal of Pragmatics, 172, 167-180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.11.019 
Kim, Y-h., & Carlin, A. P. (2021). “How was your day?”: Development of Interactional Competence located in today narrative sequences. Pragmatics, 32(2), 246-273. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19043.kim 
Kim, Y-h., & Silver, R. E. (2021). “What do you think about this?”: Differing Role Enactment in Post-Observation Conversation. In S. Kunitz, N. Markee, & O. Sert (Eds.), Emerging issues in classroom discourse and interaction: Theoretical and applied CA perspectives on pedagogy. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52193-6_15