Table of Contents

Volume 1: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and SocioLinguistics
Editor′s Introduction: The Foundations of Language and Social Interaction - Ian Hutchby
1. Performative Utterances - J.L. Austin
2. What is a Speech Act? - John Searle
3. Logic and Conversation - H. Paul Grice
4. The Logic of Politeness: Or, Minding Your p′s and q′s - Robin Lakoff
5. The Ontogenesis of Speech Acts - Jerome Bruner
6. Comprehension and the Given-New Contract - Herbert Clark & Susan Haviland
7. Planned and Unplanned Discourse - Elinor Ochs
8. A Formal Model of the Structure of Discourse - Livia Polanyi
9. Developing a Description of Spoken Discourse - Malcolm Coulthard, David Brazil & Martin Montgomery.
10. Critical and Descriptive Goals in Discourse Analysis - Norman Flairclogh
11. The Speech Community - John Gumperz
12. Social Meaning in Linguistic Structure: Code Switching in Norway - Jan-Petter Blom & John J. Gumperz
13. Rules for Ritual Insults - William Labov
14. Activity Types and Language - Stephen C. Levinson
15. Felicity′s Condition - Erving Goffman
Volume 2: Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
16. The Ethnography of Speaking - Dell Hymes
17. How to Ask for a Drink in Subanun - Charles O. Frake
18. To Give Up On Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture - K.H. Basso
19. Formality and Informality in Communicative Events - Judith Irvine
20. Studies in the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities - Harold Garfinkel
21. The Very Coinage of Your Brain - Melvin Pollner
22. K is Mentally Ill: The Anatomy of a Factual Account - Dorothy Smith
23. The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family′s Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child - Melvin Pollner & Lynn McDonald-Wikler
24. On Formal Structures of Practical Actions - Harold Garfinkel & Harvey Sacks
25. Everyone Has to Lie - Harvey Sacks
26. A Simplest Systematics for the Organisation of Turn-Taking for Conversation - Harvey Sacks, Emanuel A. Schegloff & Gail Jefferson
27. Speech, for Instance: The Exemplar in Studies of Conversation - Robert Hopper
28. Understanding Formality: Notes on the Categorisation and Production of ′Formal′ Interaction - J. Maxwell Atkinson
29. A Turn-Taking System for British News Interviews - David Greatbatch
Volume 3: Language, Interaction and Social Variables
30. How Children Start Arguments" - Douglas W. Maynard
31. Children′s Use of Verbal Strategies in Resolving Conflicts - Ann Eisenberg & Catherine Garvey
32. Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation - Don Zimmerman and Candace West
33. You Can Be the Baby Brother but You Aren′t Born Yet - Amy Sheldon
34. Interrupting the Discourse on Interruptions - Julia A. Goldberg
35. The Machine-Gun Question: An Example of Conversational Style - Deborah Tannen
36. Interaction: The Work Women Do - P. Fishman
37. How Gender Creeps into Talk - Robert Hopper & Curtis LeBaron
38. A Note on Laughter in ′Male-Female′ Interaction - Gail Jefferson
39. He-Said-She-Said: Formal Cultural Procedures for the Construction of a Gossip Dispute Activity - Marjorie H. Goodwin
40. The Logic of Non-Standard English - William Labov
41. Gatekeeping and the Melting Pot: Interaction in Counselling Encounters - Frederick Erickson
42. The Power of Language: Presentational Style in the Courtroom - John M. Conley, William M. O′Barr & E. Allen Lind
43. Dispute Resolution Without Disputing: How the Interactional Organisation of Mediation Hearings Minimizes Argumentative Talk - Angela Garcia
44. Reinterpreting Speech Exchange Systems: Communication Formats in AIDS Counselling - Anssi Perakyla & David Silverman
45. Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show - Ian Hutchby
Volume 4: Embodiment, Modality and Mediation
46. The Significance of Posture in Communication Systems - Albert E. Scheflen
47. Some Functions of the Face in a Kissing Round - Adam Kendon
48. Action and Embodiment Within Situated Human Interaction - Charles Goodwin
49. From Ethics to Analytics: Aspects of Participants′ Orientations to the Presence and Relevance of Recording Technologies - Susan A. Speer & Ian Hutchby
50. DJ Talk - Martin Montgomery
51. Discourse and Message Analysis: The MicroStructure of Mass Media Messages - John Heritage, Steven Clayman & Don Zimmerman
52. Frame Attunement and Footing in the Organisation of Talk Radio Openings - Ian Hutchby
53. Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview - Deborah Tannen & Cynthia Wallat
54. What Is Human-Machine Interaction? - Lucy A. Suchman
55. The Eyes of the Beholder: Understanding the Turn-Taking System in Quasi-Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Garcia & Jennifer Jacobs
56. Professional Vision - Charles Goodwin
57. When I Come Down I′m in the Domain State: Grammar and Graphic Representation in the Interpretive Activity of Physicists - Elinor Ochs, Patrick Gonzales & Sally Jacoby
58. Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit - Edwin Hutchins & Tove Klausen
59. The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar - Harold Garfinkel, Michael Lynch & Eric Livingston

About the Author

Ian Hutchby is a consultant sociologist, formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, England. He has research interests in the areas of conversation analysis; media discourse; childhood and family psychotherapy; and language, culture, and technology. His books include Confrontation Talk (Erlbaum, 1996), Conversation Analysis (with Robin Wooffitt, Polity, 1998, 2008), Conversation and Technology (Polity, 2001), Media Talk (Open University Press, 2006), and Methods in Language and Social Interaction (SAGE, 2008).