Annual Meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group 2026

It was held at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City.

The meeting was aimed at scholars and students of language and social interaction.

It suited conversation analysts, discourse researchers and graduate students who wanted to try out a data-driven paper before a specialist audience, since the talks were scheduled to run ten minutes with another ten given over to discussion and abstracts went through blind review. The invited speakers, Cynthia Gordon from Georgetown University and Kevin Whitehead from UC Santa Barbara, were billed as a draw for interaction scholars, and the option to revise a talk for a proceedings collection in Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL was a help to early-career presenters. Practitioners or industry attendees with no research interest in language and social interaction would have gotten less from a two-day academic meeting at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Linguistics scholars and students at academic meetings usually wear casual or business casual clothing, such as jeans or slacks with a sweater or jacket, with presenters sometimes slightly smarter.