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Navigating Ethical Issues Through Conversation Analysis's Fundamental Principles.

This article discusses research ethics from the perspective of ordinary social participants, researchers in conversation analysis (CA), and institutions. It advocates ethical procedures that are in accordance with the foundational principles of CA—that is, its policy of unmotivated scrutiny of the d...

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Published in:Research on Language & Social Interaction Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 121 - 129
Main Authors: De Stefani, Elwys, Mondada, Lorenza
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr-Jun2025
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          De Stefani, Elwys
          Mondada, Lorenza
        affil: Department of Romance Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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          Research Ethics
          Research Subjects
          Research Personnel
          Researcher-Subject Relations
          Organizations
          Interpersonal Relations
          Consent
          Data Collection
      ab: This article discusses research ethics from the perspective of ordinary social participants, researchers in conversation analysis (CA), and institutions. It advocates ethical procedures that are in accordance with the foundational principles of CA—that is, its policy of unmotivated scrutiny of the data, its focus on action, and its naturalism. As researchers take heed of these principles, they may find themselves at odds with legalistic requirements established on experimental procedures as used in laboratory research. This is particularly visible in the procedures researchers adopt for obtaining consent from interactants for data collection, treatment, and analysis. The ethics of CA embrace the emic relevance of ethical concerns interactants orient to in their encounters and as researchers record them, concerns that cannot always be foreseen and adequately addressed when consent is asked before the recording. Such concerns stretch out beyond data collection and are of central relevance also when primary data (recordings) are transformed into secondary data (transcriptions) and when analyses are developed.
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