Dr Ann Weatherall

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Course Coordinator

• PSYC 326 Language, Thought and Social Behaviour
• PSYC 418 Advanced Discursive Social Psychology
• PSYC 427 Discursive Social Psychology
  

Areas of Interest

Discursive psychology and conversation analysis; feminist psychology; sex/gender and sexuality particularly sexual and reproductive health; language and social psychology particularly new communication technologies.

My research lies within the general area of social psychology. I am particularly interested in language, talk-in-interaction and discourse I have a long interest in the field of gender and language. In the recent past I have used broadly discursive approach to data analysis. However, currently I am taking a more distinctively conversation analytic approach in my research.

From October 2006 to December 2007 I was a visiting Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California at Los Angeles where I was involved in developing conversation analytic studies of everyday spoken New Zealand English.

Recent thesis topics that I have supervised include: talk-in-interaction in school playgrounds; gender and age categories in conversation; social psychological aspects of text messaging; talk about internet dating; discourses of fairness
and equality in relationship property, and family communication with adolescents.

Selected Publications

Weatherall, A., Gallois, C., & Watson, B. (Eds.). (to appear 2007). Language, discourse and social psychology. Bassingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

Weatherall, A., Harper, D., Wilson, M., & McDowall, J. (Eds.). (2007). An introduction to psychology in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: Pearson Education New Zealand.

Weatherall, A. (2002). Gender, language and discourse. London : Routledge.

Butler , C and Weatherall, A. (to appear, 2006) “No we’re not playing families”: Membership categorisation and children’s play. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 93/4.

Kirkwood , S., Liu., J.H. & Weatherall, A. (2005). Challenging the standard story of indigenous rights in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 15, 1-13.

Wilson , M., Weatherall, A., & Butler, C, (2004) A rhetorical approach to discussion about health and vegetarianism. Journal of Health Psychology, 9/, 567-581

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