Summary
Overview
Key Readings
Over the last fifty years a range of perspectives have developed that collectively represent the thriving international and interdisciplinary field of Language and Social Interaction. This field examines the role of language, along with other paraverbal phenomena, in performing social actions and constructing social and interpersonal relationships. This collection brings together for the first time classic studies and more recent investigations using key approaches such as pragmatics, speech act theory, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Volumes 1 and 2 focus on the main methodological traditions, while Volumes 3 and 4 illustrate questions of the application of methods.
Volume 1: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics
Volume 2: Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Volume 3: Language, Interaction and Social Variables
Volume 4: Embodiment, Modality and ...
Editor's Introduction: The Foundations of Language and Social Interaction Research
The topic of these four volumes is research in Language and Social Interaction (LSI). The volumes draw together, for the first time, key papers by leading figures in this thriving interdisciplinary field. The collection represents a unique resource that maps out major landmarks on the intellectual terrain of a research programme that has been in development for more than half a century, and that incorporates methods, theories and findings from a range of perspectives including pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. These perspectives in turn draw from a range of broader social science disciplines: linguistics, sociology, philosophy and anthropology. As it has grown, and as it continues to develop, the ...
Table of Contents
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Volume 1: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and SocioLinguistics
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1. Performatives and Constatives
J. Austin
1962
How to Do Things with Words, The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University in 1955
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John Searle
1965
Philosophy in America
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H. Grice
1975
Syntax and Semantics
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4. The Logic of Politeness; or, Minding Your p's and q's
Robin Lakoff
1973
Proceedings of the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
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5. The Ontogenesis of Speech Acts
Jerome Bruner
1975
Journal of Child Language
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6. Comprehension and the Given—New Contract
Herbert Clark | Susan Haviland
1977
Discourse Production and Comprehension
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7. Planned and Unplanned Discourse
Elinor Ochs
1979
Syntax and Semantics, vol. 12: Discourse and Syntax
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8. A Formal Model of the Structure of Discourse
Livia Polanyi
1988
Journal of Pragmatics
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9. Developing a Description of Spoken Discourse
Malcolm Coulthard | Martin Montgomery | David Brazil
1981
Studies in Discourse Analysis
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10. Critical and Descriptive Goals in Discourse Analysis
Norman Fairclough
1985
Journal of Pragmatics
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J. Gumperz
1968
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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12. Social Meaning in Linguistic Structure: Code-Switching in Norway
Jan-Petter Blom | John Gumperz
1972
Directions in Sociolinguistics
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William Labov | William Labov
1972
Language in the Inner City
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14. Activity Types and Language
Stephen Levinson
1979
Linguistics
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Erving Goffman
1983
American Journal of Sociology
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Volume 2: Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
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16. The Ethnography of Speaking
Dell Hymes
1962
Anthropology and Human Behavior
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17. How to Ask for a Drink in Subanun
Charles Frake
1964
American Anthropologist
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18. “To Give up on Words”: Silence in Western Apache Culture
Keith Basso
1970
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
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19. Formality and Informality in Communicative Events
Judith Irvine
1979
American Anthropologist
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20. Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities
Harold Garfinkel
1964
Social Problems
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21. ‘The Very Coinage of Your Brain’: The Anatomy of Reality Disjunctures
Melvin Pollner
1975
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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22. ‘K is Mentally Ill’ the Anatomy of a Factual Account
Dorothy Smith
1978
Sociology
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Melvin Pollner | Lynn McDonald-Wikler
1985
Family Process
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24. On Formal Structures of Practical Actions
Harold Garfinkel | Harvey Sacks
1970
Theoretical Sociology
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Harvey Sacks
1975
Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use
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26. A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
Harvey Sacks | Emanuel Schegloff | Gail Jefferson
1974
Language
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27. Speech, for Instance: The Exemplar in Studies of Conversation
Robert Hopper
1988
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
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28. Understanding Formality: The Categorization and Production of ‘Formal’ Interaction
J. Atkinson
1982
The British Journal of Sociology
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29. A Turn-Taking System for British News Interviews
David Greatbatch
1988
Language in Society
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Volume 3: Language, Interaction and Social Variables
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30. How Children Start Arguments
Douglas Maynard
1985
Language in Society
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31. Children's Use of Verbal Strategies in Resolving Conflicts
Ann Eisenberg | Catherine Garvey
1981
Discourse Processes
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32. Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation
Don Zimmerman | Candace West
1975
Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance
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Amy Sheldon
1996
Research on Language and Social Interaction
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Julia Goldberg
1990
Journal of Pragmatics
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35. The Machine-Gun Question: An Example of Conversational Style
Deborah Tannen
1981
Journal of Pragmatics
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36. Interaction: The Work Women Do
Pamela Fishman
1978
Social Problems
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37. How Gender Creeps into Talk
Robert Hopper | Curtis LeBaron
1998
Research on Language and Social Interaction
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38. A Note on Laughter in ‘Male–Female’ Interaction
Gail Jefferson
2004
Discourse Studies
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39. He-Said-She-Said: Formal Cultural Procedures for the Construction of a Gossip Dispute Activity
Marjorie Goodwin
1980
American Ethnologist
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40. The Logic of Nonstandard English
William Labov
1969
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1969: Linguistics and the Teaching of Standard English to Speakers of Other Languages
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41. Gatekeeping and the Melting Pot: Interaction in Counseling Encounters
Frederick Erickson
1975
Harvard Educational Review
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42. The Power of Language: Presentational Style in the Courtroom
M. John | William O'Barr | E. Lind
1979
Duke Law Journal
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Angela Garcia
1991
American Sociological Review
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44. Reinterpreting Speech-Exchange Systems: Communication Formats in AIDS Counselling
Anssi Peräkylä | David Silverman
1991
Sociology
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45. Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show
Ian Hutchby
1996
Discourse and Society
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Volume 4: Embodiment, Modality and Mediation
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46. The Significance of Posture in Communication Systems
Albert Scheflen
1964
Psychiatry
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47. Some Functions of the Face in a Kissing Round
Adam Kendon
1975
Semiotica
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48. Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction
Charles Goodwin
2000
Journal of Pragmatics
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Susan Speer | Ian Hutchby
2003
Sociology
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50. DJ Talk
Martin Montgomery
1986
Media, Culture and Society
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51. Discourse and Message Analysis: The Micro-Structure of Mass Media Messages
John Heritage | Steven Clayman | Don Zimmerman
1988
Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes
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52. Frame Attunement and Footing in the Organisation of Talk Radio Openings
Ian Hutchby
1999
Journal of Sociolinguistics
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Deborah Tannen | Cynthia Wallat
1987
Social Psychology Quarterly
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54. What Is Human–Machine Interaction?
Lucy Suchman
1990
Cognition, Computing and Cooperation
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Angela Garcia | Jennifer Jacobs
1999
Research on Language and Social Interaction
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Charles Goodwin
1994
American Anthropologist
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Elinor Ochs | Patrick Gonzales | Sally Jacoby
1996
Interaction and Grammar
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58. Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit
Edwin Hutchins | Tove Klausen
1996
Cognition and Communication at Work
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59. The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar
Harold Garfinkel | Michael Lynch | Eric Livingston
1981
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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