Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Lancaster University

Home
About FASS
- Home page
- Read the Dean's Welcome
- Contact Us
Departments
Departments
- Find departments, websites and department heads.
- Go to Department list
People
Faculty Office
- Contact Deans, admin, research support, finance and IT staff via the Faculty Office
Find all Academic and Support Staff
- Academic and support staff in departments
- General Contact information
Study Here
Undergraduate Study
- Introduction to undergraduate study
- Studying for a degree
Postgraduate Study
- Introduction to Postgraduate Study
- Go to the Graduate School Website for information about funding, research training, view student profiles etc.
Research
Our Research
Publications
- Download publications from Lancaster's Publications Repository.
- Recent Books
See also
- Business and Enterprise
- Knowledge Transfer
Business & Enterprise
Business and Enterprise
See also
- Research
- Knowledge Transfer
News & Events
FASS Events
- All Forthcoming Events
- Events Archive
FASS News
- Keep up-to-date with our News
- View News Archive
FASS Intranet
FASS Intranet
- LU Staff only. Policies/guidelines, funding, research support, committees etc.
- Go to FASS Intranet

You are here: Home >

Events

News

Subscribe to News and Events

LRDG - What can ethnomethodology do for academic literacies?

Date: 22 November 2011 Time: 1 - 2 pm

Venue: C89, County South

Paul Smith (Manchester University) will be speaking on:

What can ethnomethodology do for academic literacies?

One could be forgiven for thinking that ethnomethodology (EM) offers little to the study of literacy beyond the contribution of conversation analysis (CA), which is often seen as a mode of 'discourse analysis', i.e. a formal mode of analysis. This is to ignore EM's radical respecification of the social sciences, which sees in social life that there is already always "order at all points".

EM studies tend to replicate and address concerns also found in the work in the New Literacy Studies, and has generally concluded these concerns to its own satisfaction through methods suggested by its very point of departure from formal social science. Prominent examples are its abandoning of common social science dualisms; dissolving the text/context distinction; and its distinctive approach to 'situated' phenomena. Moreover, ideas such as reflexivity, indexicality and orientation reach their fullest expression in EM.

This paper will outline some ways in which EM has confronted and - for its own purposes - solved such issues. I suggest that these solutions could be of benefit to related practice disciplines. The paper also examines a draft student essay with accompanying feedback, with the aim of finding practices rather than analysing text.

Event website: http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk

Contact:

Who can attend: Anyone