Gail Jefferson's

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Publications

 

 

(1972)  Side sequences. In D.N. Sudnow (Ed.) Studies in social interaction (pp.294-33). New York, NY: Free Press.

 

(1973)  A case of precision timing in ordinary conversation: Overlapped tag-positioned address terms in closing sequences. Semiotica, 9(1), 47-96.

 

(1974) Error correction as an interactional resource. Language in Society, 3(2), 181-199.

 

(1978) Sequential aspects of storytelling in conversation. In J. Schenkein (Ed.) Studies in the organization of conversational interaction (pp.219-248). New York, NY: Academic Press.

 

(1978) What's in a 'nyem'? Sociology, 12(1), 135-139.

 

(1979) A technique for inviting laughter and its subsequent acceptance/declination. In G. Psathas (Ed.) Everyday language: Studies in ethnomethodology (pp.79-96). New York, NY: Irvington Publishers.

 

(1980) On 'trouble-premonitory' response to inquiry. Sociological Inquiry, 50(3/4), 153-185.

 

(1981) The abominable 'ne?' An exploration of post-response pursuit of response. In P. Shroder (Hrsg.) Sprache der gegenwaart (pp.53-88). Düsseldorf. BRD: Pedagogischer Verlag Schwann. [expanded version in Manchester Sociology Occasional Papers (1981). No. 6, 1-82.

 

(1983) On exposed and embedded correction in conversation. Studium Linquistik, 14, 58-68. [Reprinted in G. Button and J.R.E. Lee (Eds.) (1987) Talk and social organization (pp. 86-100). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.]

 

(1983) On a Failed Hypothesis: 'Conjunctionals' as Overlap-Vulnerable. Tilburg Papers in Language and Literature, No. 28, 1-33. Tilburg: Tilburg University.

 

(1983) Issues in the Transcription of Naturally-Occurring Talk: Caricature versus Capturing Pronunciational Particulars. Tilburg Papers in Languge and Literature, No. 34, 1-12. Tilburg: Tilburg University.

 

(1983) Another Failed Hypothesis: Pitch/Loudness as Relevant to Overlap Resolution. Tilburg Papers in Language and Literature, No. 38, 1-24. Tilburg: Tilburg University.

 

(1984) Notes on some orderlinesses of overlap onset. In V. D'Urso and P. Leonardi (Eds.) Discoure analysis and natural rhetoric ((pp. 11-38). Padua, Italy: Cleup Editore.

 

(1984) On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters. In J.M. Atkinson and J.C. Heritage (Eds.) Structures of social action: Studies of conversation analysis (pp. 191-222).Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

(1984) On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles. In J.M. Atkinson and J.C.  Heritage (Eds.) Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis (pp.346-369). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

(1985) Notes on a systematic Deployment of the Acknowledgement tokens 'Yeah' and 'Mmhm'.  Papers in Linguistics, 17(2), 197-216.

 

(1985) On the interactional unpackaging of a 'gloss'. Language in Society, 14, 435-466.

 

(1985)  An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter. In T. Van Dijk (Ed.) Handbook of discourse analysis, Vol. 3: Discourse and dialogue (pp.25-34).London, UK: Academic Press.

 

(1986) Notes on 'latency' in overlap onset. Human Studies, 9(2/3), 153-183.

 

(1988) On the sequential organization of troubles talk in ordinary conversation. Social Problems, 35(4), 418-442.

 

(1988) Notes on a possible metric which provides for a 'standard maximum' silence of approximately one second in conversation. In D. Roger and P. Bull (Eds. Conversation; An interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. [Expanded version in Tilburg Papers in Language and Literature, No. 42, 1-83 (1983).]

 

(1989) Letter to the Editor Re: Anita Pomerantz¹ Epilogue to the Special Issue on Sequential Organization of Conversational Activities, Spring 1989. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 53(Fall), 427-429.

 

(1991) List construction as a task and resource. In G. Psathas (Ed.) Interactional competence (pp. 63-92). New York, NY: Irvington Publishers.

 

(1993) Caveat speaker: Preliminary notes on recipient topic-shift implicature. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26(1), 1-30.

 

(1996) On the Poetics of ordinary talk. Text and Performance Quarterly, 16(1), 1-61.

 

(1996) A case of transcriptional stereotyping. Journal of Pragmatics, 26(2), 159-170.

 

(2002) Is 'no' an acknowledgment token? Comparing American and British uses of (+)/(-) tokens. Journal of Pragmatics, 34, 1345-1383.

 

(2003)  A note on resolving ambiguity. In Phillip J. Glenn, Curtis D. LeBaron, and Jenny Mandelbaum (Eds.) Studies in Language and Social Interaction (pp.221-240). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

(2004) A note on laughter in 'male-female' interaction. Discourse Studies, 6(1), 117-133.

 

(2004) Glossary of transcript symbols with an Introduction. In Gene H. Lerner (Ed.) Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation (pp. 13-23). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

(2004) A sketch of some orderly aspects of overlap in natural conversation (1975). In Gene H. Lerner (Ed.) Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation (pp.43-59). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

(2004) 'At first I thought' A normalizing device for extraordinary events. In Gene H. Lerner (Ed.) Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation (pp.131-167). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

(2007) Preliminary notes on abdicated other-correction. Journal of Pragmatics, 39, 445-461.

 

 

 

 

Co-authored publications

 

(1974)  with Sacks, H., and Schegloff, E.A. A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation.  Language, 50 (4), 696-735. [Version in Schenkein, J. (ed) (1978). Studies in the organization of conversational interaction,  pp.7-55. New York, NY: Academic Press.]

 

(1977) with Schegloff, E.A., and Sacks, H. (1977). The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language 53: 361-82. 'The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation.  Language 53: 361-82.

 

(1978) with J.N. Schenkein. Some sequential negotiations in conversation: Unexpanded and expanded versions of projected action sequences. Sociology, 11(1). 87-103. [Reprinted in J.N. Schenkein (Ed.) (1978) Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction. New York: Academic Press (pp.155-172).]

 

(1980) with John R.E. Lee. End of grant report to the British SSRC on the analysis of conversations in which 'troubles' and 'anxieties' are expressed. (Ref. HR 4802). (awarded to G Jefferson and J.R.E. Lee, University of Manchester, Oct. 78-Sept. 30. 1980).

 

(1981) with John R.E. Lee. The rejection of advice: Managing the problematic convergence of a 'troubles-telling' and a 'service encounter'. Journal of Pragmatics, 5(5), 399-422. [Reprinted in Paul Drew and John Heritage (Eds.) Talk at Work. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (1992) (pp. 521-548).]

 

 (1987) with H. Sacks and E.A. Schegloff. Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy. In Graham Button and John R.E. Lee (Eds.) Talk and social Organisation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (pp.152-205). [Expanded version  (1977) Preliminary notes on the sequential organization of laughter. Pragmatics Microfiche. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Department of Linguistics.]

 

 

 

 

TILL PAPERS (1983)  (Subsequent publication indicated in grey)

 

TILL28: Two Explorations of the Organization of Overlapping Talk in Conversation:

 

Notes on Some Orderlinesses of Overlap Onset.  See (1984) Notes on some orderlinesses of overlap onset. In V. D'Urso and P. Leonardi (Eds.) Discoure analysis and natural rhetoric ((pp. 11-38). Padua, Italy: Cleup Editore.

 

 

      On a Failed Hypothesis: 'Conjunctionals' as Overlap-Vulnerable     

 

 

TILL29: On the Interactional Unpackaging of a Gloss. See (1985) On the interactional unpackaging of a 'gloss'. Language in Society, 14, 435-466.

 

 

TILL30: Two Papers on 'Transitory Recipientship'

 

Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature. See (1993) Caveat speaker: Preliminary notes on recipient topic-shift implicature. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26(1), 1-30.

 

 

Notes on a systematic Deployment of the Acknowledgement tokens 'Yeah' and 'Mmhm'.  See (1985) Notes on a systematic deployment of the acknowledgement tokens 'yeah' and 'mmhm'. Papers in Linguistics, 17(2), 197-216.

 

 

TILL34:  Issues in the Transcription of Naturally-Occurring Talk: Caricature versus Capturing Pronunciational Particulars.

 

 

TILL35:  An Exercise in the Transcription and Analysis of Laughter. See (1985)  An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter. In T. Van Dijk (Ed.) Handbook of discourse analysis, Vol. 3: Discourse and dialogue (pp.25-34).London, UK: Academic Press.

 

 

TILL38:  Another Failed Hypothesis: Pitch/Loudness as Relevant to Overlap Resolution

 

 

TILL42:  Notes on a Possible Metric Which Provides for a 'Standard Maximum' Silence of Approximately One Second in Conversation  [Appendix]  See (1988) Notes on a possible metric which provides for a 'standard maximum' silence of approximately one second in conversation. In D. Roger and P. Bull (Eds. Conversation; An interdisciplinary pespective. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.