Rowena Viney
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
England
Email: R.Viney@lboro.ac.uk
Nationality:British/German
Start Date: December 2009
Status: Full-time.
Academic Biography:
- BA Hons German (Linguistic and Language Studies) (First Class), University of Southampton, 2002
- MA Sociolinguistics (Distinction), University of Essex, 2006
Current Research:
For my thesis I am looking at everyday interactions that take place in lesbian
households. I am interested in identity, and in sexual identity in particular, and
how it is that identities are made relevant and managed on a daily basis. To do this I am examining video-recorded interactions using Conversation Analysis, an approach which looks at interaction in fine detail, to see how lesbian identity gets ‘done’ and by whom, where in the interaction this identity work takes place, and how it bears on the continuation of the interaction.
Research Interests:
Conversation Analysis, the production of sexual identity, mealtime interaction, television-watching interaction.
Funding Body: Loughborough University
Supervisor: Professor Sue Wilkinson
Involvement in Department:
- Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG)
- Family Mealtime Interaction Research Group
Publications:
- Viney, R. (2009) “Methodological issues in using conversation analysis to do sexual identity research”. Presented at AHRC Collaborative Research Training Awayday, York, UK, 11th May 2009.
- Viney, R. & Berger, I. (2010) “That’s what I’m talking about: How television plays into sequence and topic organisation”. Presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis, Mannheim, Germany, 4th-8th July 2010.
- Berger, I. & Viney, R. (2010) "Talking during films: Differing treatments of absent and gestural responses by first speaker". Poster presentation at the 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, 25th-30th July 2010.