Charles Antaki is a Reader and Programme Director in Language and Social Psychology, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. He is trained in social psychology, but has followed &emdash; and contributed to &emdash; the new orientation towards language and interaction in the social sciences. His research in conversation analysis has focussed on how participants in interaction ask and answer questions and produce explanations, and how they handle their own and others' identities. His research in standardised interview interaction has focuses on how dynamics of the interaction between interviewer and respondent is an integrated part of the production of responses in standardised interviews. He is going to talk about how interviewers go about editing pre-scripted questions to cope with respondents' perceived difficulties.

& Antaki, C. & S. Widdicombe (eds.). 1998: Identities in Talk. Sage.

& Houtkoop, H and Antaki, C. 1998. Creating happy people by asking yes/no questions. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 30, 285-313.

& Antaki, C and Rapley. M 1996: ‘Quality of Life’ talk: the liberal paradox of psychological testing. Discourse and Society, 7, 293-316.

& Antaki, C. 1996: Explaining and Arguing. The Social Organisation of Accounts. Sage