Elliot Hoey

Elliott M. Hoey is assistant professor of Language and Communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He uses conversation analytic methods to investigate people's practical use of language, bodily movement, and the material world in organizing their everyday circumstances. In his research he studies human sociality at the point of its production primarily relying on methods and principles from Conversation Analysis. His work has covered a broad range of settings (palliative care, construction work, children’s science lessons), topics (conversational openings, grammatical constructions, third party involvement), and phenomena (sighing, drinking, silence). In addition to publishing dozens of scientific articles and book chapters, he wrote the first major treatment of lapses in his monograph When Conversation Lapses: The Public Accountability of Silent Copresence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is a co-editor (with Alexandra Gubina and Chase Wesley Raymond) of a major encyclopedic work The Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.