Handbook of Language and Social Interaction

by Fitch, Kristine L.; Sanders, Robert E.; Bavelas, Janet B.; Arundale, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780805842401
• ISBN10: 0805842403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-03
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

ThisHandbook stands as the premier scholarly resource for Language and Social Interaction (LSI) subject matter and research, giving visibility and definition to this area of study and establishing a benchmark for the current state of scholarship. TheHandbookidentifies the five main subdisciplinary areas that make up LSI--language pragmatics, conversation analysis, language and social psychology, discourse analysis, and the ethnography of communication. One section of the volume is devoted to each area, providing a forum for a variety of authoritative voices to provide their respective views on the central concerns, research programs, and main findings of each area, and to articulate the present or emergent issues and directions. A sixth section addresses LSI in the context of broadcast media and the Internet. This volume's distinguished authors and original content contribute significantly to the advancement of LSI scholarship, circumscribing and clarifying the interrelationships among the questions, findings, and methods across LSI's subdisciplinary areas. Readers will come away richer in their understanding of the variety and depth of ways the intricacies of language and social interaction are revealed. As an essential scholarly resource, thisHandbookis required reading for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in language and social interaction, and it is destined to have a broad influence on future LSI study and research.

Author Biography

Kristine Fitch received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is an associate professor of communication at the University of Iowa. Her research and theory are centered in the ethnography of speaking based on fieldwork in Colombia, England, Spain, Finland, and Texas. Dr. Fitch current work centers around persuasion and personal relationships in cultural context, particularly in moments of poaching and improvisation at the intersections of public. She is widely published throughout the communication discipline.
Robert E. Sanders is a professor in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Albany. His teaching specialties are in the topic areas of persuasion, interpersonal communication, and cultural influences on communication. He is the author of the 1987 book Cognitive Foundations of Calculated Speech. In addition, Dr. Sanders has also brought out eight volumes of the journal, Research on Language and Social Interaction since becoming editor in 1988.

Table of Contents

List of Transcription Symbols	xi
Preface	xv
Contributors	xvii
Introduction: LSI as Subject Matter and as Multidisciplinary Confederation	1	(20)
Robert E. Sanders
I: LANGUAGE PRAGMATICS
Preface to Section I: Language Pragmatics	17	(4)
The Contribution of Speech Act Theory to the Analysis of Conversation: How Pre-sequences Work	21	(20)
Francois Cooren
Pragmatics, Conversational Implicature, and Conversation	41	(30)
Robert B. Arundale
II: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
Preface to Section II: Conversation Analysis	67	(4)
Conversation Analysis	71	(32)
Paul Drew
Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk	103	(46)
John Heritage
Conversation Analytic Approaches to the Relevance and Uses of Relationship Categories in Interaction	149	(30)
Anita Pomerantz
Jenny Mandelbaum
III: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Preface to Section III: Language and Social Psychology	175	(4)
The Two Solitudes: Reconciling Social Psychology and Language and Social Interaction	179	(22)
Janet Beavin Bavelas
Language and Social Psychology: Conceptual Niceties, Complexities, Curiosities, Monstrosities, and How It All Works	201	(30)
James J. Bradac
Howard Giles
Intergroup Communication and Identity: Intercultural, Organizational, and Health Communication	231	(26)
Cindy Gallois
Susan McKay
Jeffery Pittam
IV: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Preface to Section IV: Discourse Analysis	253	(4)
Discursive Psychology	257	(18)
Derek Edwards
Rethinking Genre: Discursive Events as a Social Interactional Phenomenon	275	(26)
Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Reconstructing Communicative Practices: Action-Implicative Discourse Analysis	301	(26)
Karen Tracy
V: ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
Preface to Section V: Ethnography of Communication	323	(4)
Ethnography	327	(28)
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
The Ethnography of Speaking	355	(26)
Gerry Philipsen
Lisa M. Coutu
Microethnography: The Study of Practices	381	(30)
Jurgen Streeck
Siri Mehus
VI: EXTENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Preface to Section VI: Extensions of Technology	407	(4)
Technology, Interaction, and Design	411	(26)
Mark Aakhus
Sally Jackson
Conversation Analysis and the Study of Broadcast Talk	437	(24)
Ian Hutchby
Conclusion: Behind the Scenes of Language and Scholarly Interaction	461	(22)
Kristine L. Fitch
Author Index	483	(14)
Subject Index	497