Galina Bolden
Professor of Communication
Faculty, PhD COM Faculty
Biography
Galina Bolden is interested in examining how members of different cultural and language communities negotiate and pursue mutual understanding and construct interpersonal relationships in and through social interaction. Working within the theoretical and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis (CA), she conducts research on talk-in-interaction in Russian and English languages, both in ordinary conversation and in organizational settings.
Bolden is an author of over fifty articles and book chapters, a co-author (with Alexa Hepburn) of "Transcribing for Social Research" (2017) as well as co-editor (with John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen) of "Responding to Polar Questions Across Languages and Contexts" (2023). Bolden is currently co-authoring (with Chase W. Raymond and Jeffrey D. Robinson) two volumes, "Turn-taking in Social Interaction" and "Repair in Interaction". She also serves as the president of the International Society of Conversation Analysis.
Education
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Rutgers Affiliations