Talking about troubles in conversation / Gail Jefferson ; Edited by Paul Drew, John Heritage, Gene Lerner, and Anita Pomerantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jefferson, Gail, 1938-2008, author.

Contributor:

Drew, Paul, editor.

Heritage, John, editor.

Lerner, Gene H., editor.

Pomerantz, Anita, editor.

Series:

Foundations of human interaction

Foundations of Human Interaction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Interpersonal communication.

Conversation.

Oral communication.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

xvi, 234 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Few conversational topics are as significant as our troubles in life, however mundane or grave they might be. Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) was one of the co-founders of the field of Conversation Analysis; through her early collaboration with Harvey Sacks and in her subsequent research, she laid the foundations for what has become an immensely important interdisciplinary paradigm. In groundbreaking research conducted with John Lee at the University of Manchester, Jefferson shed light on how people talk about their troubles, not in a professional or therapeutic setting, but in their ordinary conversations with family and friends. Jefferson used recordings of interactions in which people talk about problems they are experiencing in their lives. She explored the interactional dynamics and complexities of introducing these problems, how speakers sustain and elaborate their accounts of their troubles, how participants align and affiliate with one another, and how they finally move the conversation away from such topics. The studies Jefferson published out of that remarkable period of research have been collected together for the first time in this volume. Jefferson's work is as relevant as ever, and her articles are as insightful and informative about how we talk about our troubles as they are innovative in the development and application of Conversation Analysis. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Talking about troubles; an introduction: Paul Drew, John Heritage, Gene lerner & Anita Pomerantz

Chapter 1: On the sequential organization of troubles-talk in ordinary conversation

Chapter 2: On 'trouble-premonitory' response to inquiry

Chapter 3: The rejection of advice: Managing the problematic convergence of a'troubles-telling' and a 'service encounter'

Chapter 4: On the interactional unpackaging of a 'gloss'

Chapter 5: On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles

Chapter 6: On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next positioned matters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199937349

0199937346

9780199937325

019993732X

OCLC:

892910276