Grice Goes Ethno-Methodological

Or rather _I_ did, briefly, when compiling refs. for my PhD dissertation. Eventually I dropped them all off when I decided to quote only Oxonian male philosophers at _that_!

--- But Grice did like Folk Wisdom. So there.

And when I keyed, "conversational pragmatics" and some such crypto-technical jargon, I was amused by the 'conversation analysis' of the conversation analysts. Eventually, they care to quote Grice, but they never care enough to _understand_ him!

Sacks for example had access to Grice's "William James Lectures" -- 'but hardly read them, I would think", Schegloff told me. Jefferson agreed.

Coulmas and the Boston school were perhaps more philosophical but they tended on the Wittersian side of the spectrum rather than the Gricean.

Werth and the English were perhaps closer in Spirit to Grice, even without knowing.

Mind, some of this stuff is Oxford-oriented, too -- but usually Oxford poly, rather than Oxford proper! (Brenner).

--- Etc.

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ATKINSON/HERITAGE

Structures of social action: studies in conversation analysis.
sacks notes on methodology
schegloff questions and ambiguities in conversation
pomerantz agreeing/disagreeing
davidson, invitating, offering, requesting, and proposing
drew, reporting and inviting
pomerantz, responding
button, topicalising
jefferson, changing topic
goodwin, story telling THIS WILL INTEREST YOUR STUDENT
heath, body moving
schegloff, gesture making
heritage, on saying "oh"
jefferson, laughing
atkinson, applauding
sacks, being ordinary.

what interests me now is to actually quote the whole list of contributors,
you see. that above means there are 16 contri, since i forgot the intro one
by edits.

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PSATHAS: everyday language: studies in ethnomethodology

sacks, hotrodder
sacks, referring
schegloff, talking on the phone
jefferson, laughing
goodwin: gazing
heritage, formulating
coulter, whatever
schenkein, radio listening
psathas, giving directions
pollner, trafficking
atkinson, court proceeding

SUDNOW, Studies in Social Interaction
London: Macmillan.

garfinkel, routine
sacks, whatever
schegloff, placing
labov, insulting
moerman, taking sides
circourel, negotiating
sudnow, timing
sacks, moralising
jefferson, red herrings
twer depicting
turner, thearapy
speier, whatever

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KENDON et al
Organisation of Behaviour in face to face interaction
Mouton

sarles, ethology
yngve, whatever
schefflen, whatever
bullowa: infant/adult
frey: whatever
seaford, facial expression
schefferen, microterritory
erickson, proxemics
markel, coverballing
dunkan, turning
laver, phaticising
engel, acquiring
harris, paralanguage
lieberman, paralanguage
poyatos, being spanish
stokoe, signing
leontiev, psycholinguistic
vine, spacing
handelman, game
mcbride, controlling
barnlund, japan
lomax, whatever
handelman, whatever
erickson, afterthoughts

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STREET et al

Sequence and Pattern in Communicative Behviour
London: Arnold

cappella, functionalism
tracy, coherence
mclaughlin, acccounting
morris, remedy
wieman, power and status
scotton, "what the heck, sir" ... Colouring
as feature of powerful language. I LIKE THAT!
bourhis, being furrin
dindia, self-disclosure
roloff, profit seeking
patterson, evolution
poole, tasking
putnam, bargaining
street, comments

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Vaina L, Constraints on communication
Reidel

dijk, dialogue and cognition
marcus, diplomatic communication
stanton: doctor/patient
sass: father/child
benowitz, going emotional
vaina: memory
jakobson, madness
lehnret, questioning and answering
shcank; whatever
minsky, JOKES & THE LOGIC OF THE COGNITIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
martin, eventing
brown; tasking
guenther, whatever
runcan, logic
harrah, messaging
hintikka, game
carlson, focus
eco, something difficult
cushing interpreting
paun, modelling
zadeh, PRUF
mcdonald, program conversation!

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CRANACH, ed
The analysis of action: empirical advances
CUP

harre, study
cranach, goal directing
hacker, work
kaminski, skiing
cranach, dialogue
collett, dialogue
clarke, rules
brenner, power
marsh, rule
luckman, knowledge
kreckel, extralinguistic knowledge
bruner, adult/infant
reynolds, decision making
reynolds: primate

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I forgot I've got a nice book ed. by H. Giles, in my Swimming-Pool Library, too: -- well, next to it: I keep only Loebs at the Swimming-Pool Library proper. Too many books give a stuffy look I disregard.

But he's the ed. and it's published by Blackwell. It's a collection of Social
Psychology CA (conversation analysis).

JOSHI et al
Discourse understanding

clark, referring
gazdar, whatever
grosz, focusing
johnson-laird, modelling
kaplan: appropriate responses to inappropriate questions
lehnert, question/answer
marcus, whatever
miller; negating
perrault, inaccurate referring.
prince, indefinite ref.
rosenschein, programs that converse
waltz, describing a scene
webber: reference
woods, meaning

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WERTH
Conversation & Discourse:
structure & interpretation.
London: Croom Helm

brenner, research interview
grimshaw, naturally occurring conversation
wells, strategies
emslie, child/parent
owen, the use of "well,..."
creider, LUO
werth, "relevance"
wilson/sperber, relevance
actual title, "On Grice's Theory of Conversation" **********

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CRAIG et al
CONVERSATIONAL COHERENCE:
form, structure & strategy
London: Sage Publications.

goldberg, coherence
jacobs: rationality,
sanders, coherence
hopper, coherence
mura: LICENSING VIOLATIONS: LEGITIMATE VIOLATIONS
OF GRICE'S CONVERSATIONAL PRINCIPLE
(if your student gets interested in GRICE, let me know!)
tracy: relevance
crow, topic
ragan, alignment
sigman, topic
beach, BACKGROUND understandings and the situated
accomplishment of conversational telling expansions.
love those lovely titles. In the end, it's all about
"let's talk about bananas..."
americans can be so technical!
ellis, coherence
nofsinger, courtroom
farrell, rhetoric
hawes, coherence

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SOME INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR books:

MCLAUGHLIN, M
Conversation: How talk is organised.
London: Sage:

chapters:
what conversationalists know
coherence
turn taking
acts
sequences
repairs
significan issues in research.

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TANNEN, D. I cited her below as per previous post
CONVERSATIONAL STYLE:
Analysing talk among friends.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex:

(she contributes to LEGACY OF GRICE)

contents:
conversational style as semantics
individual differences
acquiring style
strategies
processes
frames
interaction
high involvement
analysis
recording
accountability in interpretation
thanksgiving

ch3 participants
4. devices in style
5. NARRATIVE STRATEGIES.
6. JOKING.
7. other features.
8. coherence in discourse.

steps in analysing conversation
flow of topics

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ALLEN, Conversation Analysis: The Sociology of Talk
MInor Janua Linguarum
This is the book I said was a flop.

Contents:
the process of conversation
problems of analysis
intensity
vocabulary analysis
somatic behaviour
other properties
theory
application

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Finally, this is the book whose author I had forgotten. No wonder, with a
surname like that!

WARDHAUGH, Ronald.
HOW CONVERSATION WORKS. Blackwell.

citing Grice

chapters:
social basis
locating an angenda
cooperation
behind words
context
getting started
topics
agreeing, apologising, promising
samples
consequences.

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I suppose you could try:

http://www.google.com
and use in key
what specifically your student chose:
like JOKING
STORY TELLING
GOSSIPING.

Interestingly, I don't see much about Gossiping (recall it means GOD-SIP).
Too much about JOKING and STORY TELLING. So perhaps he or she should do
GOSSIP. Only Joking: Tell him/her to do JOKING OR STORY TELLING, since
there's lots more of biblio he can criticise, or she can criticise even!



1. gossip
2. story telling
3. joke telling
4. etc.

In England there's so-called "conversation-analysis", and the main book
seems to be

ATKINSON JM & Heritage, JC. _Structure of Social Action: Studies in
Conversation Analysis_. Cambridge. Eds.

I may have the title slightly wrong.
All the "must-be"'s are here: Gail Jefferson,
who taught at Manchester
E.A.Schegloff,
I corresponded with, of UCLA
H Sacks, late.
(run over by a car, unfortunately,
in LA -- quite young, too...).
etc.
Then, there's ethnomethodology, which is a different thing. Goffman's the
man here. BTW, Atkinson teaches law at Wolfson, Oxford, and Heritage I seem
to recall is at Dept Sociology Coventry/Warwick.

Ethnomethodology is more American based, and there's
PSATHAS, Geo. ed. I forget the book title but all the same names more or
less are there. Psathas book has ethnomethodology in the title, and I think
it's called Ordinary Language. You see all these books are downstairs!
(some 50 km from where I am -- this IS a big library!).

For the specific bits you refer, as 1-2-3-4, there's a book ed. by Asa
Kasher, I think, ed, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. I have some photocopies from it.
There are specific chapters on each thing.

Then there's

COULMAS, Frank (A German he). Conversational Routine. published in the
Netherlands. Ed.
Rather old fashioned but good. This may do your student good,
since joking and gossiping etc is like a routine.

Then there are

SCHENKEIN, ed. another collection I've got. Has ethnomethodology in the
title, I believe.

And then there are million others... And then there are the individual books:

McLaughlin Margaret has one book HOW CONVERSATION WORKS.
Then there's a Blackwell book, by a Canadian, whose name I forget (it's
downstairs) called, _How conversation works_. Rather elementary.

I'm trying to remember those who have "conversation" in the title.
There's Deborah Tannen. She has a paperback on the analysis of _one_
American conversation. This was before she got into gender studies, but in
this book I've got she analyses how a man telling a joke is different from
a _woman_ telling a joke (She hid the tape recorder during a thanksgiving
dinner and only later told the 4 guests that she was going to write a book
about it).

I would also recommend

JAMES, Contrastive analysis. Longman
Elementary, but provides a framework to compare pragmatic approaches.
And then there's
STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE, ed. by Scherer. Cambridge.
With good essays by DD Clarke (of Nottingham) and JM Argyle on Conversation
Sequences.

Anyway, I should revise my biblio.
I would say the best collection is Atkinson/Heritage - it has a good
biblio. Probably there are more recent studies.

Also, I'm sure there are OLDER studies. Chas GOODWIN (of South Carolina)
has a whole book on TURN TAKING which revolutionised the filed since he
discovered the importance of GAZE in HOTEL (Academic Press) -- i.e. how you
know when to stop talking by the gaze of, say, Norman Hinton. This is of
course, unavailable to us using e-mail... Another lister said this was like
GROOMING, so that's HOTEL, too!

There's a book called CONVERSATION ANALYSIS published by Mouton (I forget
authored by who) who was a flop. I bought it via a catalogue and it was
totally useless. Very old. All statistical methods.

In England, you'll find it's sociologists who're doing this kind of thing:
Heritage, Atkinson, Jefferson -- they all belong in Sociology Depts, and
would not talk to "foreigners" -- when I said my background was philosophy
they laughed at me. (Schegloff said to me that Sacks probably did read
Grice, but v. superficially, if at all -- Sacks mentioned the Grice MSS but
his approach is completely different).

Then there are some discourse analysts in England who have written on this,
as expected.
WERTH, P. has a book CONVERSATION and Discourse. London: Croom Helm.
Editor. Sperber/Wilson contributed there.

Then there's STUBBS, M, who teaches linguistics at Nottingham and has a
book on this.

Then there's a special chapter on conversation analysis in Levinson's
Pragmatics. Cambridge Textbook in Linguistics. The Discourse analysis
textbook is by YULE and BROWN. More boring. Levinson being v. influential
for his study with Penny Brown on politeness. And has a recent book on
implicature, with MIT. So he's like _still_ influential. :).

Boston Univ. used to hold the International Conferences in Conversation
Analysis ages ago. Psathas is of Boston, or used to be... so he probably
organised them. Maybe the field is no longer fashionable.
I was only interested in how these people dealt with Grice -- and I was
rather disappointed to learn how BAD they dealt with Grice.

There's a book by CAMERON Deborah and TAYLOR, Talbot, called _Conversation_
which has one chapter about Levinson, Leech and Grice on the analysis of
conversation. Rather simplistic.

I would say the technique developed by sociologists is the best, and
Jefferson especially has developed a method of transcription which, though
naive, is interesting. She has special papers delivered in the Netherlands,
which I've got (U. of Tilbury).

It would/should be easier to
research into more narrow biblio, I'm sure. I wonder what's on the net
about this. I hope a lot! I expect each of these people have their personal
pages now! (I know Clarke does since he's married to a friend of mine).

Etc.