Giovanni Rossi
Giovanni Rossi is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He uses conversation analysis to examine human language and gesture as a system of tools for social interaction. His interest is both in the universal features of this system grounded in the common infrastructure of human interaction and its variable features driven by the local resources and norms of particular cultural and social settings.
Richard Fitzgerald
Richard Fitzgerald is Professor of Communication at the University of Macau, China (SAR). Before joining the University of Macau in 2014 he previously has held posts at Cardiff University and the University of Queensland. He has researched and written extensively on methods of qualitative discourse analysis with a particular focus on Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA). His most recent publication is On Sacks. Methodology, Materials and Inspirations (2021, Routledge) co-edited book with Robin Smith and William Housley. He is a former EiC of Discourse, Context and Media and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macau.