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      Studies in Language and Social Interaction

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      In Honor of Robert Hopper

      Studies in Language and Social Interaction

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      Studies in Language and Social Interaction book

      In Honor of Robert Hopper
      ByJennifer Mandelbaum, Phillip J. Glenn, Curtis D. LeBaron
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2002
      eBook Published 1 November 2002
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410606969
      Pages 640
      eBook ISBN 9781410606969
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Language & Literature
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      Mandelbaum, J. (2002). Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper (P.J. Glenn, & C.D. LeBaron, Eds.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410606969

      ABSTRACT

      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

      chapter 1|31 pages

      An Overview of Language and Social Interaction Research

      ByCurtis D.LeBaron, Jenny Mandelbaum, and Phillip J.Glenn

      part I|3 pages

      Conversational Enslavement in “The Truman Show”

      chapter 2|9 pages

      The Scientist as Humanist: Moral Values in the Opus of Robert Hopper

      BySandra L. Ragan

      chapter 3|33 pages

      Designing Questions and Setting Agendas in the News Interview

      chapter 4|10 pages

      Taken-for-Granteds in (an) Intercultural Communication

      chapter 5|15 pages

      “’So, What Do You Guys Think?: Think Talk and Process in Student-Led Classroom Discussion

      chapter 6|11 pages

      Gesture and the Transparency of Understanding

      part II|3 pages

      Talk in Everyday Life

      chapter 7|12 pages

      Utterance Restarts in Telephone Conversation: Marking Topic Initiation and Reluctance

      chapter 8|10 pages

      Recognizing Assessable Names

      chapter 9|10 pages

      Interactional Problems With “Did You” Questions and Responses

      chapter 10|17 pages

      Managing Optimism

      chapter 11|10 pages

      Rejecting Illegitimate Understandings

      chapter 12|11 pages

      Interactive Methods for Constructing Relationships

      chapter 13|18 pages

      A Note on Resolving Ambiguity

      chapter 14|20 pages

      The Surfacing of the Suppressed

      ByEmanuel A. Schegloff

      chapter 15|10 pages

      Sex, Laughter, and Audiotape: On Invoking Features of Context to Explain Laughter in Interaction

      chapter 16|12 pages

      Gender Differences in Telephone Conversations

      part III|3 pages

      Talk in Institutional Settings

      chapter 17|14 pages

      Comparative Analysis of Talk-in-Interaction in Different Institutional Settings: A Sketch

      chapter 18|14 pages

      Conversational Socializing on Marine VHF Radio: Adapting Laughter and Other Practices to the Technology in Use

      chapter 19|11 pages

      Law Enforcement and Community Policing: An Intergroup Communication Approach

      chapter 20|10 pages

      Preventatives in Social Interaction

      chapter 21|10 pages

      The Interactional Construction of Self-Revelation: Creating an “Aha” Moment

      chapter 22|16 pages

      A World in a Grain of Sand: Therapeutic Discourse as Making Much of Little Things

      chapter 23|10 pages

      Modeling as a Teaching Strategy in Clinical Training: When Does It Work?

      chapter 24|17 pages

      Indeterminacy and Uncertainty in the Delivery of Diagnostic News in Internal Medicine: A Single Case Analysis

      chapter 25|11 pages

      Body Movement in the Transition From Opening to Task in Doctor-Patient Interviews

      part IV|4 pages

      Emerging Trajectories

      chapter 26|11 pages

      The Body Taken for Granted: Lingering Dualism in Research on Social Interaction

      chapter 27|16 pages

      Action and the Appearance of Action in the Conduct of Very Young Children

      chapter 28|17 pages

      Speech Melody and Rhetorical Style: Paul Harvey as Exemplar

      chapter 29|12 pages

      The Body Present: Reporting Everyday Life Performance

      chapter 30|11 pages

      Ethnography as Spiritual Practice: A Change in the Taken-for-Granted (or an Epistemological Break with Science)

      chapter 31|11 pages

      The Tao and Narrative

      chapter 32|8 pages

      Conversational Enslavement in The Truman Show

      chapter 33|9 pages

      On ESP Puns

      part V|1 pages

      Robert Hopper

      chapter 34|13 pages

      Robert Hopper: An Intellectual History

      chapter 35|3 pages

      The Scientist as Humanist: Moral Values in the Opus of Robert Hopper

      chapter 36|5 pages

      The Great Poem

      chapter 37|13 pages

      Phone Openings, “Gendered” Talk, and Conversations About Illness

      chapter 38|2 pages

      Nothing Promised

      chapter 39|2 pages

      The Last Word

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