Gail
Jefferson's

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.
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.
