Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper

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Pub. Date: 2002-12-13
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This collection provides current research in language & social interaction (LSI), including historical & cutting-edge examples. Covering such areas as conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, & ethnography, it is intended for scholars & advanced students

Table of Contents

An Overview of Language and Social Interaction Research
Orienting to the Field of Language and Social Interaction
Extending the Domain of Speech Evaluation: Message Judgments
Designing Questions and Setting Agendas in the News Interview
Taken-for-Granteds in (an) Intercultural Communication
"So What Do You Guys Think?": Think Talk and Process in Student-Led Classroom Discussions
Gesture and the Transparency of Understanding
Talk in Everyday Life
Utterance Restarts in Telephone Conversation: Marking Topic Initiation and Reluctance
Recognizing Assessable Names
Interactional Problems With "Did You" Questions and Responses
Managing Optimism
Rejecting Illegitimate Understandings
Interactive Methods for Constructing Relationships
A Note on Resolving Ambiguity
The Surfacing of the Suppressed
Sex, Laughter, and Audiotape: On Invoking Features of Context to Explain Laughter in Interaction
Gender Differences in Telephone Conversations
Talk in Institutional Settings
Comparative Analysis of Talk-in-Interaction in Different Institutional Settings: A Sketch
Conversational Socializing on Marine VHF Radio: Adapting Laughter and Other Practices to the Technology in Use
Law Enforcement and Community Policing: An Intergroup Communication Approach
Preventatives in Social Interaction
The Interactional Construction of Self-Revelation: Creating an "Aha" Moment
"A World in a Grain of Sand": Therapeutic Discourse as Making Much of Little Things
Modeling as a Teaching Strategy in Clinical Training: When Does It Work?
Indeterminancy and Uncertainty in the Delivery of Diagnostic News in Internal Medicine: A Single Case Analysis
Body Movement in the Transition From Opening to Task in Doctor-Patient Interviews
Emerging Trajectories: Body, Mind, and Spirit
The Body Taken for Granted: Lingering Dualism in Research on Social Interaction
Action and the Appearance of Action in the Conduct of Very Young Children
Speech Melody and Rhetorical Style: Paul Harvey as Exemplar
The Body Present: Reporting Everyday Life Performance
Ethnography as Spiritual Practice: A Change in the Taken-for-Granted (or an Epistemological Break With Science)
The Tao and Narrative
Conversational Enslavement in "The Truman Show."
On ESP Puns
Robert Hopper: Teacher and Scholar
Robert Hopper: An Intellectual History
The Scientist as Humanist: Moral Values in the Opus of Robert Hopper
The Great Poem
Phone Openings, "Gendered" Talk, and Conversations About Illness
Nothing Promised
The Last Word
Appendix: Transcription Symbols
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