Lucy Pickering
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 127088 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lucy Pickering |
| PRENOMES | Lucy |
| SOBRENOME | Pickering |
| ASSINATURA | PICKERING L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2025-2124 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
How can we reform research ethics management to make it fit for purpose
Dissatisfaction with the prevailing systems of research ethics governance has been voiced for decades, so changing research ethics management practice is not a new idea. In fact, in some quarters, often far from Euro-Western universities and health authorities, positive change has already taken place. We discuss eight systematically selected case studies, and Indigenous research ethics, as examples of alternative frameworks. These are all value-b…
Music therapy embedded in the life of dementia inpatient care to help prevent and manage distress
ISRCTN86317609
The Role of Prosody in International Communication in English in Call Center Interactions
This paper examines outsourced call center interactions to illustrate how these contexts can enhance pronunciation analysis and training. Public opinion in the United States and the United Kingdom regarding the perceived "pronunciation problems" of agents based in call centers in Outer-Circle English-speaking countries is typically negative. However, it is often difficult for researchers to pinpoint the specific issues involved, as access to auth…
Using choice modelling to identify popular and affordable alternative interventions for schistosomiasis in Uganda
Schistosomiasis is caused by a vector-borne parasite, commonly found in low- and middle-income countries. People become infected by direct contact with contaminated water through activities such as collecting water, bathing and fishing. Water becomes contaminated when human waste is not adequately contained. We administered a discrete choice experiment to understand community preferences for interventions that would reduce individuals' risk of co…
Paying Attention to Women's Ageing Bodies in Recovery From Substance Use
Moving from the body in active drug use to the body in recovery is not without its challenges for mid-life and older women. New sensations and feelings-physical and mental-must be re-interpreted in light of their ageing and drug-free bodies. This study reveals some of the substantive sex-based differences that older women in active drug use and recovery experience. This has important implications for healthcare and treatment for women in drug ser…
‘It’s not 9 to 5 recovery’
AIM: To understand how the social networks of a new recovery community can help sustain recovery, focusing on processes of social identity change, in the context of the wider UK recovery movement. METHODS: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods social network analysis (SNA) of ego-network sociograms to map network transitions, using retrospective measures. Ten men were recruited from a peer-worker programme, in the South Ayrshire Alcohol and Drug Partn…
An introduction to the Anawc
This paper presents an overview of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Non-AAC Workplace Corpus (ANAWC) ( Pickering & Bruce, 2009 ). The corpus is the first resource of its kind that makes it possible to systematically study the typical language patterns of both AAC users and comparable non-AAC users in the workplace. We discuss the origin of the corpus and give an account of the methodology used for its collection and transc…
Smiling and the Negotiation of Humor in Conversation
This study investigates the function of smiling intensity as a nondiscrete marker of humor in conversation. The smiling intensity of participants in eight conversational dyads was measured relative to the occurrence of humorous and nonhumorous events in the conversation. A relationship was found between higher smiling intensity and the occurrence of humorous event across conversations, thus confirming the value of smiling as a marker of humor. Th…
New for Who
New (or Novel) Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are so named because they are characterized by a shared property of “newness.” In this article, we critically unpack NPS as a category and as a single object, bounded by a shared “newness”. In doing so, we examine whose ways of knowing are afforded epistemological authority and the harms that can emerge from an overemphasis on pharmacological properties at the expense of everyday practice. Through acco…
Out of order
This article examines the double burden of 'menstrual etiquette' and the implications for women's inclusion in public spaces in Scotland today. Beginning from Laws' work on 'menstrual etiquette', we explore how menstrual etiquette is characterised primarily by the burden of rendering menstruation invisible, both discursively and practically. However, women not only work to ensure that others remain unaware that they are menstruating; they depend …
Dirty scholarship and dirty lives
What is dirt, and how is it used in processes of Othering? This is the central theme of this opening, introductory chapter. The chapter brings together a number of theoretical approaches to dirt. In exploring the central role of dirt and dirt management to the civilising process, we (re)produce a particular sort of history of European relations with dirt - a history characterised as much by dirt as a site of distinction as by an apparent increasi…
Discourse Intonation
Is smiling during humor so obvious? A cross-cultural comparison of smiling behavior in humorous sequences in American English and French interactions
The present article is part of a larger cross-cultural research project on speaker-hearer smiling behavior in humorous and non-humorous conversations in American English and French. The American corpus consists of eight computer-mediated interactions between English native speakers, and the French one consists of four face-to-face interactions between French native speakers. The goal of the study is twofold: first, we analyze the link between smi…
Time-rich
What does it mean to be rich? This paper explores prosperity from the perspective not of material affluence but of temporal affluence. Drawing on ethnographic material from an American counterculture dropout community in Hawai'i, I examine ways in which material lack and temporal plenty can be bound together and understood not as privation but as affluence. Bringing Sahlins's (1972) work on the "Zen solution to scarcity and want" and the seminal …
Presenting and representing others
The ethics of research representation are rarely discussed. Yet representation can have a significant impact on research participants and audiences. This paper draws on some of the limited body of accounts of ethical challenges experienced in representing others in qualitative research. These accounts make clear that researchers often have to choose between ‘competing goods’ when representing others, such as participant control over what is prese…
New directions in qualitative research ethics
No abstract available
Talking at Work
This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring
Smiling synchronicity and gaze patterns in dyadic humorous conversations
This present article is part of a larger study on speaker-hearer allocation of attentional resources in face-to-face interactions. The goal of the paper is twofold: first, we present results concerning the degree of correlation, in computer-mediated conversation, between speaker’s timing and intensity of smiling when humor is either present or absent in the conversation. The results were obtained from the analysis of five dyadic interactions betw…
Waiting for chronic
What does it mean not to wait? It is possible to live in ways which do not entail waiting? Through close examination of time and its articulations among a group of US 1960s-generation 'hippies' and younger 'drop outs' in a rural backwater of Hawai'i, I argue in this paper that it is possible to live without waiting. Drawing on Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1953) and Baba Ram Dass' countercultural invocation to 'remember, be here now', I explore un…
Gender sameness and difference in recovery from heroin dependence
Recovering a Fecal Habitus
There is a particular silence around the social life of defecation. Little analyzed, rarely discussed in polite conversation, it largely appears only at moments of dysfunction. For active heroin users, digestion is often characterized by such dysfunction and experienced through constipation; recovery, a welcome return to defecating 'normally.' Drawing on interviews with active and recovering heroin users in southern England, we focus on this mome…
I just want to be normal
Research that has explored the lives of men and women recovering from heroin addiction has reported that users often claim that they ‘just want to be normal’. Working within a Foucauldian tradition, we argue in this article that the notions of ‘governmentality’ and the ‘norm’ are especially apposite to understanding the ubiquity of this aspiration. Here we focus not on the formal institutions of governance that encourage individuals to adhere to …
Linguistic characteristics of AAC discourse in the workplace
This study examines linguistic co-occurrence patterns in the discourse of individuals with communication impairments who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices in the workplace by comparing them to those of non-AAC users in similar job settings. A typical workweek (≈ 40 hours) per focal participant (four AAC; four non-AAC) was recorded and transcribed to create a specialized corpus of workplace discourse of approximately 464…
Suprasegmentals
Intonation is narrowly defined as the linguistically significant use of pitch movement at the suprasegmental level.
Heroin users’ views and experiences of physical activity, sport and exercise
Presenting and representing others
The ethics of research representation are rarely discussed. Yet representation can have a significant impact on research participants and audiences. This paper draws on some of the limited body of accounts of ethical challenges experienced in representing others in qualitative research. These accounts make clear that researchers often have to choose between ‘competing goods’ when representing others, such as participant control over what is prese…
Dirty scholarship and dirty lives
What is dirt, and how is it used in processes of Othering? This is the central theme of this opening, introductory chapter. The chapter brings together a number of theoretical approaches to dirt. In exploring the central role of dirt and dirt management to the civilising process, we (re)produce a particular sort of history of European relations with dirt - a history characterised as much by dirt as a site of distinction as by an apparent increasi…
Toilets, Bodies, Selves
Defecation has received limited attention within the social sciences and humanities. Toilets not a great deal. Urination even less. However, examining the practice of composting faeces and 'pee[ing] on any tree' by white, West Coast US 'hippies' and 'drop-outs' living in Hawai'i suggests that the disposal of excreta is never simple disposal. Rather, it entails engagement with the state, one's own body and sense of placedness. Through looking at t…
Recovery from problem drug use
In this commentary, we critically review the contribution of the sociologist Erving Goffman (1922–1982) to understanding recovery from problem drug use. Previous research has indicated that drug users have a 'spoiled identity' and must restore a 'normal' or 'unspoiled' identity in order to recover. This argument has been linked to Goffman's classic work Stigma: Notes on the management of a spoiled identity [1963, Harmondsworth: Penguin]. Despite …
The Role of Tone Choice in Improving ITA Communication in the Classroom
As the numbers of international teaching assistants (ITAs) continue to increase, cross-cultural communication has become an integral part of academic life in universities. ITA instruction programs recognize that successful communication between ITAs and their students requires an ability to use language appropriate to the classroom context and an awareness of the expectations of native-speaking discourse participants. One area of teaching discour…
I just want to be normal
Research that has explored the lives of men and women recovering from heroin addiction has reported that users often claim that they ‘just want to be normal’. Working within a Foucauldian tradition, we argue in this article that the notions of ‘governmentality’ and the ‘norm’ are especially apposite to understanding the ubiquity of this aspiration. Here we focus not on the formal institutions of governance that encourage individuals to adhere to …
Teaching intonation in discourse using speech visualization technology
Pitch accent in Indian-English teaching discourse
The phonetic correlates of accent/stress distinguish Indian English (IE) from American dialects (Spencer, 1957; Kachru, 1983). We examine the realization of accent in IE compared to American English (AE) produced by teaching assistants in similar contexts. In teaching discourse, we find that a lexically accented syllable is often realized in IE with a relative drop in frequency and without a reliable increase in amplitude. In similar contexts, le…
I don’t think there’s much of a rational mind in a drug addict when they are in the thick of it’
Much of the sociological literature on recovery from heroin use has been located within the symbolic interactionist tradition and has revealed the salience of identity for the recovery process, and has focused upon actors’ cognitions. By contrast, less attention has been paid to former users’ bodies. The aim of this paper therefore is to focus upon the embodied aspects of recovery from heroin use. To this end, we deploy the notions of bodily ‘dys…
Out of order
This article examines the double burden of 'menstrual etiquette' and the implications for women's inclusion in public spaces in Scotland today. Beginning from Laws' work on 'menstrual etiquette', we explore how menstrual etiquette is characterised primarily by the burden of rendering menstruation invisible, both discursively and practically. However, women not only work to ensure that others remain unaware that they are menstruating; they depend …
Waiting for chronic
What does it mean not to wait? It is possible to live in ways which do not entail waiting? Through close examination of time and its articulations among a group of US 1960s-generation 'hippies' and younger 'drop outs' in a rural backwater of Hawai'i, I argue in this paper that it is possible to live without waiting. Drawing on Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1953) and Baba Ram Dass' countercultural invocation to 'remember, be here now', I explore un…
Timing in the performance of jokes
The notion of timing in humor is often mentioned as a very significant issue, and yet very little has been written about it. The paper reviews the scant literature on the subject and narrows down the definition of timing as comprising pauses and speech rate. The discussions of timing in the literature see it either as a speeding up or slowing down of speech rate. Using data collected from twenty joke performances, we show that speakers do not sig…
Techniques and transitions
Intonation as a pragmatic resource in ELF interaction
The investigation of pragmatic strategies in ELF interaction is a relatively new area of research. This paper examines intonation as a pragmatic resource in ELF interaction. There is considerable research pointing to the critical role played by intonational structure in NS-based discourse to establish a state of informational and social convergence (Brazil, The communicative value of intonation in English, Cambridge University Press, 1997; Chun, …
Smiling and the Negotiation of Humor in Conversation
This study investigates the function of smiling intensity as a nondiscrete marker of humor in conversation. The smiling intensity of participants in eight conversational dyads was measured relative to the occurrence of humorous and nonhumorous events in the conversation. A relationship was found between higher smiling intensity and the occurrence of humorous event across conversations, thus confirming the value of smiling as a marker of humor. Th…
New directions in qualitative research ethics
No abstract available
New for Who
New (or Novel) Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are so named because they are characterized by a shared property of “newness.” In this article, we critically unpack NPS as a category and as a single object, bounded by a shared “newness”. In doing so, we examine whose ways of knowing are afforded epistemological authority and the harms that can emerge from an overemphasis on pharmacological properties at the expense of everyday practice. Through acco…
Smiling synchronicity and gaze patterns in dyadic humorous conversations
This present article is part of a larger study on speaker-hearer allocation of attentional resources in face-to-face interactions. The goal of the paper is twofold: first, we present results concerning the degree of correlation, in computer-mediated conversation, between speaker’s timing and intensity of smiling when humor is either present or absent in the conversation. The results were obtained from the analysis of five dyadic interactions betw…
Prosodic Markers of Saliency in Humorous Narratives
Much of what we think we know about the performance of humor relies on our intuitions about prosody (e.g., “it's all about timing”); however, this has never been empirically tested. Thus, the central question addressed in this article is whether speakers mark punch lines in jokes prosodically and, if so, how. To answer this question, this article unites both the recently emerged research agenda grounding spoken discourse analysis in the precision…
Linguistic characteristics of AAC discourse in the workplace
This study examines linguistic co-occurrence patterns in the discourse of individuals with communication impairments who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices in the workplace by comparing them to those of non-AAC users in similar job settings. A typical workweek (≈ 40 hours) per focal participant (four AAC; four non-AAC) was recorded and transcribed to create a specialized corpus of workplace discourse of approximately 464…
Dancing my true dance
While I was doing fieldwork with hippies and drop outs in Hawai'i, my mother came to visit. During her visit I took her to an ecstatic dance. At this dance one of my research participants, Stan, told me, "Lucy, I've been watching you dance today and you've really learned to express yourself". Discussing it later, my mother remarked, "Yes, but what he meant was that you've learned to dance like everyone else". In this paper I explore how the same …
Dancing my true dance
While I was doing fieldwork with hippies and drop outs in Hawai'i, my mother came to visit. During her visit I took her to an ecstatic dance. At this dance one of my research participants, Stan, told me, "Lucy, I've been watching you dance today and you've really learned to express yourself". Discussing it later, my mother remarked, "Yes, but what he meant was that you've learned to dance like everyone else". In this paper I explore how the same …
Pitch accent in Indian-English teaching discourse
The phonetic correlates of accent/stress distinguish Indian English (IE) from American dialects (Spencer, 1957; Kachru, 1983). We examine the realization of accent in IE compared to American English (AE) produced by teaching assistants in similar contexts. In teaching discourse, we find that a lexically accented syllable is often realized in IE with a relative drop in frequency and without a reliable increase in amplitude. In similar contexts, le…
The Role of Tone Choice in Improving ITA Communication in the Classroom
As the numbers of international teaching assistants (ITAs) continue to increase, cross-cultural communication has become an integral part of academic life in universities. ITA instruction programs recognize that successful communication between ITAs and their students requires an ability to use language appropriate to the classroom context and an awareness of the expectations of native-speaking discourse participants. One area of teaching discour…
Phonetic correlates of stress and tone in a mixed system
The description of Atlantic Creoles has relied mostly on comparative studies with intonational languages. However, there are few corresponding tonal properties between Atlantic Creoles with tonal systems and their Indo-European lexifiers. The description of the tonal systems of these Creoles must precede any comparative study with intonational languages. This research supplements previous phonological descriptions of Papiamentu, an Atlantic Creol…
Teaching intonation in discourse using speech visualization technology
Acquiring a non-native phonology
Intonation as a pragmatic resource in ELF interaction
The investigation of pragmatic strategies in ELF interaction is a relatively new area of research. This paper examines intonation as a pragmatic resource in ELF interaction. There is considerable research pointing to the critical role played by intonational structure in NS-based discourse to establish a state of informational and social convergence (Brazil, The communicative value of intonation in English, Cambridge University Press, 1997; Chun, …
Prosodic Markers of Saliency in Humorous Narratives
Much of what we think we know about the performance of humor relies on our intuitions about prosody (e.g., “it's all about timing”); however, this has never been empirically tested. Thus, the central question addressed in this article is whether speakers mark punch lines in jokes prosodically and, if so, how. To answer this question, this article unites both the recently emerged research agenda grounding spoken discourse analysis in the precision…
Suprasegmental Measures of Accentedness and Judgments of Language Learner Proficiency in Oral English
In high‐stakes oral proficiency testing as well as in everyday encounters, accent is the most salient aspect of nonnative speech. Prior studies of English language learners’ (ELLs’) pronunciation have focused on single parameters of English, such as vowel duration, fundamental frequency as related to intonation, or temporal measures of speech production. The present study addresses a constellation of suprasegmental characteristics of nonnative sp…
Optimal provision of needle and syringe programmes for injecting drug users
Recovery from problem drug use
In this commentary, we critically review the contribution of the sociologist Erving Goffman (1922–1982) to understanding recovery from problem drug use. Previous research has indicated that drug users have a 'spoiled identity' and must restore a 'normal' or 'unspoiled' identity in order to recover. This argument has been linked to Goffman's classic work Stigma: Notes on the management of a spoiled identity [1963, Harmondsworth: Penguin]. Despite …
Toilets, Bodies, Selves
Defecation has received limited attention within the social sciences and humanities. Toilets not a great deal. Urination even less. However, examining the practice of composting faeces and 'pee[ing] on any tree' by white, West Coast US 'hippies' and 'drop-outs' living in Hawai'i suggests that the disposal of excreta is never simple disposal. Rather, it entails engagement with the state, one's own body and sense of placedness. Through looking at t…
Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation
This case study extends the findings of Pickering et al. 2009 to the domain of conversational humor. We find that, as was the case in humorous narratives, conversational humor is not marked by higher pitch or volume, increased speech rate, or significant pauses. Unlike narrative humor, conversational humor is not produced at a lower pitch and slower rate than non-humorous parts of the text. We find that smiling and laughter tend to occur with hum…
What is the role of harm reduction when drug users say they want abstinence
Timing in the performance of jokes
The notion of timing in humor is often mentioned as a very significant issue, and yet very little has been written about it. The paper reviews the scant literature on the subject and narrows down the definition of timing as comprising pauses and speech rate. The discussions of timing in the literature see it either as a speeding up or slowing down of speech rate. Using data collected from twenty joke performances, we show that speakers do not sig…
I don’t think there’s much of a rational mind in a drug addict when they are in the thick of it’
Much of the sociological literature on recovery from heroin use has been located within the symbolic interactionist tradition and has revealed the salience of identity for the recovery process, and has focused upon actors’ cognitions. By contrast, less attention has been paid to former users’ bodies. The aim of this paper therefore is to focus upon the embodied aspects of recovery from heroin use. To this end, we deploy the notions of bodily ‘dys…
Techniques and transitions
Suprasegmentals
Intonation is narrowly defined as the linguistically significant use of pitch movement at the suprasegmental level.
Heroin users’ views and experiences of physical activity, sport and exercise
Recovering a Fecal Habitus
There is a particular silence around the social life of defecation. Little analyzed, rarely discussed in polite conversation, it largely appears only at moments of dysfunction. For active heroin users, digestion is often characterized by such dysfunction and experienced through constipation; recovery, a welcome return to defecating 'normally.' Drawing on interviews with active and recovering heroin users in southern England, we focus on this mome…
I just want to be normal
Research that has explored the lives of men and women recovering from heroin addiction has reported that users often claim that they ‘just want to be normal’. Working within a Foucauldian tradition, we argue in this article that the notions of ‘governmentality’ and the ‘norm’ are especially apposite to understanding the ubiquity of this aspiration. Here we focus not on the formal institutions of governance that encourage individuals to adhere to …
Linguistic characteristics of AAC discourse in the workplace
This study examines linguistic co-occurrence patterns in the discourse of individuals with communication impairments who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices in the workplace by comparing them to those of non-AAC users in similar job settings. A typical workweek (≈ 40 hours) per focal participant (four AAC; four non-AAC) was recorded and transcribed to create a specialized corpus of workplace discourse of approximately 464…
Gender sameness and difference in recovery from heroin dependence
Talking at Work
This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring
Smiling synchronicity and gaze patterns in dyadic humorous conversations
This present article is part of a larger study on speaker-hearer allocation of attentional resources in face-to-face interactions. The goal of the paper is twofold: first, we present results concerning the degree of correlation, in computer-mediated conversation, between speaker’s timing and intensity of smiling when humor is either present or absent in the conversation. The results were obtained from the analysis of five dyadic interactions betw…
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