Galina
Bolden

Galina Bolden is interested in examining how members of different cultural and language communities pursue mutual understanding and construct interpersonal relationships in and through social interaction. She uses the methodology of Conversation Analysis (CA) to conduct research on talk in Russian and English, as well as bilingual Russian-English conversations.

Galina Bolden’s scholarship addresses the question of how cultures are enacted in everyday interaction. She uses Conversation analysis to examine how participants enact and negotiate their cultural identities and personal relationships in and through talk-in-interaction. Her research explicates:

• how participants in social interaction negotiate meaning across and within English- and Russian-language speaking communities;
• how interpersonal relationships are enacted in culturally sensitive ways; and
• how participants negotiate meaning in medical and mental health contexts.

Bolden is an author of over forty articles and book chapters, a co-author (with Alexa Hepburn) of Transcribing for Social Research (2017), co-editor (with John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen) of the book Responding to Polar Questions Across Languages and Contexts (2023), and she is currently co-authoring (with Jeffrey Robinson and Chase Raymond) two volumes, Turn-taking in Social interaction and Repair in Interaction.