Chase Wesley Raymond

About

Chase Wesley Raymond is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is also a core faculty member in the interdepartmental Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP). He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz School of Medicine. Prior to joining CU-Boulder, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Formally trained in both Hispanic Linguistics (PhD, UCLA, 2014) and Sociology (PhD, UCLA, 2016), Raymond is an interdisciplinary scholar of language and social life. His research and teaching integrate theories and methods from Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Sociolinguistics to investigate language use in both mundane and institutional contexts. He explores how interactants make sense with one another on a moment-by-moment basis as they move through interaction. Raymond has a particular interest in situations of contact, where divergent languages, dialects, cultures, and other social factors come together in interaction, with a primary focus on various aspects of the Latinx and Spanish-speaking experience in the United States.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Epistemology
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Cognitive psychology
• Social psychology
• Linguistics
• Biology

Selected publications

• Preference and Polarity: Epistemic Stance in Question Design

  Research on Language and Social Interaction · 2021 · 85 citations

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  This article considers the use of negative polarization in polar (yes/no) questions. It argues that question polarity is used to take an epistemic stance toward the probability or improbability of the state of affairs referenced in the question and that taking such a stance is effectively unavoidable. Focusing on negatively polarized questions (NPQs), four main kinds of evidence are adduced that NPQs are associated with the questioner’s stance that the question’s underlying proposition is unlike…

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• You know as invoking alignment: A generic resource for emerging problems of understanding and affiliation

  Journal of Pragmatics · 2021 · 39 citations

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• Reference without anaphora: on agency through grammar

  Linguistics · 2021 · 38 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract In this article, we investigate a puzzle for standard accounts of reference in natural language processing, psycholinguistics and pragmatics: occasions where, following an initial reference (e.g., the ice ), a subsequent reference is achieved using the same noun phrase (i.e., the ice ), as opposed to an anaphoric form (i.e., it ). We argue that such non-anaphoric reference can be understood as motivated by a central principle: the expression of agency in interaction. In developing this…

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• Pre-emptive Repair of Potential Misunderstandings: Prospective Procedures for Managing Intersubjectivity and Steering Social Action

  American Sociological Review · 2025-07-20 · 7 citations

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  In social interaction, participants face a pervasive problem: recipients might not only misinterpret what speakers are saying and doing, but they might act on those misinterpretations. A practical challenge for speakers is thus how to prevent misunderstandings that may lead to inapposite conduct. In this study, we bring prior interactional research together with new data from a range of social settings, to focus on the pre-emptive repair of potential misunderstandings as a resource in interactio…

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• The Case for Open Conversation Analysis Data

  Research on Language and Social Interaction · 2025-04-03 · 6 citations

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  As part of the growing “open science” movement, this article advocates integrating open data approaches into CA practices, drawing lessons from successful large-scale “big team” collaborations. The discussion begins by examining the history of data sharing in CA and its connection to evolving ideas and practices of open data. We explore software tools to support open CA data formats and share insights from developing an open CA data repository, the Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interactio…

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Frequent coauthors

• Barbara A. Fox

  University of Colorado Boulder

  16 shared

• Luis Manuel Olguín

  10 shared

• Paul Drew

  University of York

  5 shared

• Ana Cristina Ostermann

  4 shared

• Sandra A. Thompson

  University of California System

  3 shared

• Tanya Stivers

  3 shared

• Steven E. Clayman

  3 shared

• John Heritage

  University of California, Los Angeles

  3 shared

Labs

• Chase Wesley Raymond LabPI

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