Conversation : an interdisciplinary perspective
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Conversation : an interdisciplinary perspective
（Intercommunication series, 3）
Multilingual Matters, c1989
- : pbk
Available at 30 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book, the editors present a collection of papers by academics from diverse disciplines specialising in research on interpersonal communication. The book is intended to fill an obvious gap in the available literature, since it focuses explicitly on the ways in which researchers from different disciplines investigate interpersonal communication. The contributions are organised around five principal themes, namely, Concepts of Interpersonal Communication, Methods of Observation, Transcription Procedures, Data Analysis, and Research Applications; each of these themes represents a particular issue which must be addressed by any researcher working on conversation. In addition, the sections are prefaced by linking chapters written by the editors, which highlight the topic of each section and evaluate the different approaches represented by the individual chapters. In this way the book is intended to provide an integrated and structured interdisciplinary approach to the study of interpersonal communication.
Table of Contents
SECTION 1: CONCEPTS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
1. Peter Bull and Derek Roger: The Social Psychological Approach to Interpersonal Communication
2. John Heritage: Current Developments in Conversation Analysis
3. Robert Hopper: Conversation Analysis and Social Psychology as Descriptions of Interpersonal Communication
SECTION 2: METHODS OF OBSERVATION
4. Derek Roger: Experimental Studies of Dyadic Turn-Taking Behaviour
5. Paul Drew: Recalling Someone from the Past
6. Erica Huls: Family Interaction from an Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective
SECTION 3: TRANSCRIPTION PROCEDURES
7. Peter Bull: Psychological Approaches to Transcription
8. Gail Jefferson: Preliminary Notes on a Possible Metric which Provides for a 'Standard Maximum' Silence of Approximately One Second in Conversation
9. J. Kelly and J. K. Local: On the Use of General Phonetic Techniques in Handling Conversational Material
SECTION 4: DATA ANALYSIS
10. Peter Collett: Time and Action
11. A.J. Wootton: Remarks on the Methodology of Conversation Analysis
SECTION 5: RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
12. Andrew P. Thomas: Social Skills and Physical Handicap
13. D.R. Rutter: The Role of Cuelessness in Social Interaction: An Examination of Teaching by Telephone
14. Johan Muller: 'Out of Their Minds': An Analysis of Discourse in Two South African Science Classrooms
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