This book makes available five classic studies of the organisation of behaviour in face-to-face i...

Throughout Western society there are now strong pressures for social and racial integration but, ...

This book explores two important tasks of language - presenting who we are talking about (the ref...

Challenging the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men (as language and ge...

Chinese and Americans often unwittingly communicate at cross-purposes because they are misled by ...

Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational intera...

The volume will be of central interest to anyone concerned with communication, whether from a mor...

Provides a sociolinguistic account of classroom interaction, based on research in an inner-city h...

By integrating the analysis of conversation with ethnography, Marjorie Harness Goodwin systematic...

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, ma...

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, ma...