Talking problems : studies of discursive construction / Richard Buttny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buttny, Richard.

Series:

SUNY series in communication studies

SUNY series in Communication Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Interpersonal communication.

Social interaction.

Oral communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using discursive constructionism and conversation analysis, Talking Problems examines how participants orient to, communicate about, and act toward events as problems. The book examines a series of problems, including teenage parenthood in high school, interpersonal and family relationships during therapy, and racism and interracial relations on a university campus. These problems are taken as joint constructions and the interest is in how participants' versions of events get heard, what unfolds as a consequence of this, how participants position themselves, and what social realities are thereby created.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Tellings in Talking Problems

Ascribing Problems and Positionings in Talking Student Teenage Parent1

Clients’ and Therapist’s Joint Construction of the Clients’ Problems

Therapeutic Humor in Retelling the Clients’ Tellings

Reportings in Talking Problems

Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus

Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact

Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-206) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486054

0791486052

9781417575695

1417575697

OCLC:

57579034