Overview
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Clinical Conversation Analysis at the University of Exeter. I am interested in the structural organisation of naturally occurring talk across a variety of settings, namely, clinical encounters, everyday family interactions, initial interactions, and public encounters.
My PhD research was on resistance in family interactions, with a focus on the sequential organisation of resistance, and how members orient to authority and categories in 'resistance sequences' in these family interactions. Ultimately, this research addressed issues of action and interaction, considering how actions are achieved and orientations to the social order in everyday interaction.
Qualifications
Masters by Research, Linguistics, York St John University, December 2017.
Thesis Titled: Accounting for Disaffiliations and Nonaffiliations in Initial Interactions.
BA (Hons), English Language and Linguistics, York St John University, June 2016.
Publications
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Journal articles
Flint N, Haugh M, Merrison AJ (2019). Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions.
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA),
29(3), 384-409.
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Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions
Abstract
Much of the research on affiliation to date has focused on how people do (dis)affiliation. This paper explores the remedial work that follows instances of disaffiliation between interactants who are getting acquainted. Building on an interactional pragmatics analytical approach informed by methods and research in conversation analysis, findings indicate that extended remedial accounts recurrently follow moments of disaffiliation in initial interactions. These remedial accounts enable participants to reposition a prior disaffiliative stance as (ostensibly) affiliative. It appears in initial interactions, then, that remedial accounts play an important role in modulating troubles in affiliating. We propose that the considerable interactional work undertaken by these participants to modulate such troubles reflects a general preference for agreeability in initial interactions, at least amongst (Australian and British) speakers of English.
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2019
Flint N, Haugh M, Merrison AJ (2019). Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions.
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA),
29(3), 384-409.
Abstract:
Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions
Abstract
Much of the research on affiliation to date has focused on how people do (dis)affiliation. This paper explores the remedial work that follows instances of disaffiliation between interactants who are getting acquainted. Building on an interactional pragmatics analytical approach informed by methods and research in conversation analysis, findings indicate that extended remedial accounts recurrently follow moments of disaffiliation in initial interactions. These remedial accounts enable participants to reposition a prior disaffiliative stance as (ostensibly) affiliative. It appears in initial interactions, then, that remedial accounts play an important role in modulating troubles in affiliating. We propose that the considerable interactional work undertaken by these participants to modulate such troubles reflects a general preference for agreeability in initial interactions, at least amongst (Australian and British) speakers of English.
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