Alexandra Kent (previously Craven)

Department of Social Sciences 
Loughborough University 
Loughborough 
Leicestershire LE11 3TU 
England

Telephone:

Fax:+44 (0)1509 222930

Email: A.J.Craven@lboro.ac.uk

Nationality: British

Start Date: October 2008

Status: Full-time

Academic Biography:

BSc  Hons Social Psychology (First Class), Loughborough University, 2006
MRes  Social Research (Distinction), Loughborough University, 2008

Current Research:

My current research involves analysing videos of family
mealtimes with two or more children under 10. I am
currently exploring features of adult-child talk in
relation to how one participant executes the right to
control the actions of another. My focus is on the
delivery and responses to directives within the mealtime
conversation.

Research Interests:

Discursive Psychology, Conversation Analysis, Adult-Child
Talk, Directives, Laughter

Funding Body: Economic  & Social Research Council

Supervisors: Prof Jonathan Potter and Prof Charles Antaki

Involvement in Department:

Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG)

Publications:

Publications:
Craven A. & Potter J. (2010) Directives: Entitlement and Contingency in Action, DIscourse Studies, 12(4), pp419-442

Craven A. (2010) Children's Responses to DIrectives during Family Mealtimes: Embodied Compliance and Verbal Resistance, Paper Presented at International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2010, Mannheim.

Other:

Editorial Assistant for 'Research on Language and Social Interaction' (ROLSI)

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