Joshua Raclaw is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Program in Linguistics at West Chester University. His research draws primarily on conversation analysis and interactional linguistics to examine language and the body in social interaction. One focus of his work is on the sociopragmatic functions of discourse markers and particles in American English. Another focus is on the use of bodily resources during everyday conversation as well as talk in meetings, particularly the ways that English speakers deploy gaze, gesture, laughter, and interpersonal touch alongside language in their production of social action.
