Related Titles
Much of the content of the following books and journals is related to language and social interaction.
Handbook of Language and Social Interaction edited by Kristine L. Fitch and Robert E. Sanders. The handbook is divided into five main areas: language pragmatics, conversation analysis, language and social psychology, discourse analysis, and the ethnography of communication. One section of the volume is devoted to each area, providing a forum for a variety of voices to provide their respective views on the central concerns, research programs, and main findings of each area, and to articulate the present or emergent issues and directions. A sixth section addresses language and social interaction in the context of broadcast media and the Internet. Published 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN: 0805853197
Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz edited by Susan Eerdmans, Carlo Prevignano, and Paul J. Thibault. The aim of this collection of papers is to highlight some aspects of John Gumperz's analysis of human interaction, which he calls Interactional Sociolinguistic Analysis. A number of themes that are central to his work are included. Published 2003 by John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN: 902722594X
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader edited by Alessandro Duranti is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The selections are both historically oriented and thematically coherent and are grouped according to four major themes: speech community and communicative competence; the performance of language; language socialization and literacy practices; and the power of language. Published 2001 by Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 0631221115
Power Talk: Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse by Joanna Thornborrow examines discourse, power and ideology by introducing new perspectives on the relationship between social structures of power and interaction. Published 2002 by Longman. ISBN: 0582368790
Research on Language and Social Interaction is a journal devoted to research on naturally occurring social interaction. Published papers will ordinarily involve the analysis of audio or video recordings of social activities. Published by Routledge. ISSN: 1532-7973 (electronic) 0835-1813 (paper)
Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings edited by Christina Bratt Paulston and G. Richard Tucker is a collection of classic articles that have helped define the field of sociolinguistics and provide the foundation for future research, paired with more recent articles which indicate the direction the field has taken. Published 2003 by Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 0631227172