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

by Glenn,Phillip J.

• ISBN13: 9780805837322
• ISBN10: 0805837329
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection offers empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life. The writings come from many of the world's leading researchers and cut across academic boundaries, engaging scholars and teachers from such disciplines as communication, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and education. Chapters emphasize empirical, qualitative studies of people's everyday uses of talk-in-interaction, and they feature work in such areas as sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography. The volume is dedicated to and highlights themes in the work of the late Robert Hopper, an outstanding scholar in communication who pioneered research in Language and Social Interaction (LSI). The contributors examine various features of human interaction (such as laughter, vocal repetition, and hand gestures) occurring naturally within a variety of settings (at a dinner table, a doctor's office, an automotive repair shop, and so forth), whereby interlocutors accomplish aspects of their interpersonal or institutional lives (resolve a disagreement, report bad medical news, negotiate a raise, and more), all of which may relate to larger social issues (including police brutality, human spirituality, death, and optimism). The chapters in this anthology show that social life is largely a communicative accomplishment and that people constitute the social realities experienced every day through small and subtle ways of communicating, carefully orchestrated but commonly taken for granted. In showcasing the diversity of contemporary LSI research, this volume is appropriate for scholars and graduate students in language and social interaction, communication, sociology, research methods, qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistics, and related areas.

Table of Contents

An Overview of Language and Social Interaction Research	1	(40)
Curtis D. LeBaron
Jenny Mandelbaum
Phillip J. Glenn
PART I: ORIENTING TO THE FIELD OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION	41	(92)
Extending the Domain of Speech Evaluation: Message Judgments	45	(12)
James J. Bradac
Designing Questions and Setting Agendas in the News Interview	57	(34)
John C. Heritage
Taken-for-Granteds in (an) Intercultural Communication	91	(12)
Kristine L. Fitch
``So, What Do You Guys Think?'': Think Talk and Process in Student-Led Classroom Discussions	103	(16)
Robert T. Craig
Alena L. Sanusi
Gesture and the Transparency of Understanding	119	(14)
Curtis D. LeBaron
Timothy Koschmann
PART II: TALK IN EVERYDAY LIFE	133	(156)
Utterance Restarts in Telephone Conversation: Marking Topic Initiation and Reluctance	137	(14)
Charlotte M. Jones
Recognizing Assessable Names	151	(12)
Charles Goodwin
Interactional Problems With ``Did You'' Questions and Responses	163	(12)
Susan D. Corbin
Managing Optimism	175	(20)
Wayne A. Beach
Rejecting Illegitimate Understandings	195	(12)
Samuel G. Lawrence
Interactive Methods for Constructing Relationships	207	(14)
Jenny Mandelbaum
A Note on Resolving Ambiguity	221	(20)
Gail Jefferson
The Surfacing of the Suppressed	241	(22)
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Sex, Laughter, and Audiotape: On Invoking Features of Context to Explain Laughter in Interaction	263	(12)
Phillip J. Glenn
Gender Differences in Telephone Conversations	275	(14)
Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra
PART III: TALK IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS	289	(134)
Comparative Analysis of Talk-in-Interaction in Different Institutional Settings: A Sketch	293	(16)
Paul Drew
Conversational Socializing on Marine VHF Radio: Adapting Laughter and Other Practices to the Technology in Use	309	(18)
Robert E. Sanders
Law Enforcement and Community Policing: An Intergroup Communication Approach	327	(14)
Jennifer L. Molloy
Howard Giles
Preventatives in Social Interaction	341	(12)
G. H. Morris
The Interactional Construction of Self-Revelation: Creating an ``Aha'' Moment	353	(10)
E. Duff Wrobbel
``A World in a Grain of Sand'': Therapeutic Discourse as Making Much of Little Things	363	(18)
Kurt A. Bruder
Modeling as a Teaching Strategy in Clinical Training: When Does It Work?	381	(12)
Anita Pomerantz
Indeterminacy and Uncertainty in the Delivery of Diagnostic News in Internal Medicine: A Single Case Analysis	393	(18)
Douglas W. Maynard
Richard M. Frankel
Body Movement in the Transition From Opening to Task in Doctor-Patient Interviews	411	(12)
Daniel P. Modaff
PART IV: EMERGING TRAJECTORIES: BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT	423	(118)
The Body Taken for Granted: Lingering Dualism in Research on Social Interaction	427	(14)
Jurgen Streeck
Action and the Appearance of Action in the Conduct of Very Young Children	441	(18)
Gene H. Lerner
Don H. Zimmerman
Speech Melody and Rhetorical Style: Paul Harvey as Exemplar	459	(20)
John Vincent Modaff
The Body Present: Reporting Everyday Life Performance	479	(14)
Nathan P. Stucky
Suzanne M. Daughton
Ethnography as Spiritual Practice: A Change in the Taken-for-Granted (or an Epistemological Break with Science)	493	(14)
Maria Cristina Gonzalez
The Tao and Narrative	507	(14)
Mary Helen Brown
Conversational Enslavement in ``The Truman Show''	521	(10)
Kent G. Drummond
On ESP Puns	531	(10)
Emanuel A. Schegloff
PART V: ROBERT HOPPER: TEACHER AND SCHOLAR	541	(52)
Robert Hopper: An Intellectual History	543	(20)
Jenny Mandelbaum
The Scientist as Humanist: Moral Values in the Opus of Robert Hopper	563	(4)
Sandra L. Ragan
The Great Poem	567	(6)
Leslie H. Jarmon
Phone Openings, ``Gendered'' Talk, and Conversations About Illness	573	(16)
Wayne A. Beach
Nothing Promised	589	(2)
James J. Bradac
The Last Word	591	(2)
Robert Hopper
Appendix Transcription Symbols	593	(4)
Contributors	597	(8)
Author Index	605	(18)
Subject Index	623