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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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Tellings in Talking Problems

1. Ascribing Problems and Positionings in Talking Student Teenage Parent

2. Clients' and Therapist's Joint Construction of the Clients' Problems

3. Therapeutic Humor in Retelling the Clients' Tellings

Part II: Reportings in Talking Problems

4. Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus

5. Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact, with Princess L. Williams

6. Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus

7. Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

References

Subject Index

Name Index

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791486054
Langue	English

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Talking Problems

SUNY series in Communication Studies Dudley D. Cahn, editor

Talking Problems

Studies of Discursive Construction

RICHARD BUTTNY

STATEUNIVERSITY OFNEWYORKPRESS

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Buttny, Richard. Talking problems : studies of discursive construction / Richard Buttny. p. cm. — (SUNY series in communication studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5895-4 (alk. paper) 1. Discourse analysis. 2. Interpersonal communication. 3. Social interaction. 4. Oral communication. I. Title. II. Series.

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Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Tellings in Talking Problems 1. Ascribing Problems and Positionings in Talking Student Teenage Parent 2. Clients’ and Therapist’s Joint Construction of the Clients’ Problems 3. Therapeutic Humor in Retelling the Clients’ Tellings Part II: Reportings in Talking Problems 4. Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus 5. Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact, with Princess L. Williams 6. Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes References Name Index Subject Index

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Acknowledgments

This book is an outgrowth of prior studies originally written as journal articles. Five of these chapters began as journal articles and were revised for this volume. Revising the articles for a book allowed me to remove inconsistencies and errors. Also, in revisiting the stud-ies I was able to look at the connections among them and to exam-ine the findings in a broader theoretical framework. Chapter 3 is a slightly revised version of “Clients’ and therapist’s joint construc-tions of the clients’ problem,”Research on Language and Social In-teraction,29(1996) and chapter 4 of “Therapeutic humor in retelling the clients’ tellings,”Text,21(2001). Chapter 5 is a revision of “Re-ported speech in talking race on campus,”Human Communication Research,23(1997), chapter 6 of “Discursive constructions of racial boundaries and self-segregation on campus,”Journal of Language and Social Psychology,18(1999), and chapter 7 of “Demanding re-spect: The uses of reported speech in discursive constructions of in-terracial contact,”Discourse & Society,11(2000) (coauthored with Princess L. Williams). Many folks have helped me along the way in preparing this book through conversations, data sessions, and responses to papers. The Bakhtinian notion that others’ voices appear in your own writing is clearly evident in these pages. In particular I would like to acknowl-edge Bill Benoit and an anonymous reader for their comments on the complete manuscript. The series editor, Lee Cahn, was very en-couraging and the production editor, Diane Ganeles, helped me pull it all together. Most of all, I am grateful for Jodi Cohen—my severest critic and caring supporter throughout—along with Daisy and Oscar, dear companions all.