Leah Wingard - Communication Studies - San Francisco State University

Leah Wingard (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 2006) is a Language and Social Interaction scholar and she teaches courses that often use analyses of naturally occurring interaction. She currently teaches: Research Methods in Language and Social Interaction, Discourse in Interaction, Family Communication, Children’s Communication and Social Semiotics.

In her research, Dr. Wingard analyzes structures of everyday talk from both conversation analytic and discourse analytic perspectives and is interested in furthering the use of multiple-method approaches to communication studies research. Her research interests include documenting and analyzing communication processes that contribute to the social and emotional development of children. She is a research affiliate of the UCLA Sloan Center on the Everyday Lives of Families and her dissertation examined the impact of children’s homework on everyday family life and parent-child communication.

Other research interests include the construction of emotion in face to face interaction and the ways in which emotion work is achieved in interaction. She is also interested in social norms and how speakers display orientation to them through their use of, and responses to, accounts and assessments in talk-in-interaction.

Finally, Leah takes great pleasure in cooking and eating with friends and family. She is fascinated by the role of food in culture and loves to read and talk about food as cultural practice.

Selected works:

Wingard, L. (2007). Constructing time and prioritizing activities in parent-child interactions. Discourse and Society 18, 75-91.

Wingard, L. (2006). Mentioning homework first in parent-child interactions. Talk & Text 26, 573-596.