REQUIRED READINGS
There is one required book for the course, available at the campus bookstore and on two-hour reserve at the library:
Fenstermaker, Sarah, & Candace West, eds. (2002). Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power and Institutional Change. New York: Routledge. (F&W on the syllabus)
Required and recommended readings listed on the syllabus are available online at ERes (Electronic Reserve); other relevant readings are also listed below.
Readings are password-protected; see the hard copy of the syllabus or contact an instructor for the password.
Required readings (available on ERes)
Duneier, Mitchell, & Harvey Molotch (1999). Talking city trouble: Interactional vandalism, social inequality, and the "urban interaction problem." American Journal of Sociology 104(5):1263-1295.
Gardner, Carol Brooks (1980). Passing by: Street remarks, address rights, and the urban female. Sociological Inquiry 50(3-4):328-356.
Goodwin, Marjorie Harness (2002). Exclusion in girls' peer groups: Ethnographic analysis of language practices on the playground. Human Development 45:392-415.
Kitzinger, Celia (2000). Doing feminist conversation analysis. Feminism and Psychology 10(2):163-193.
Kitzinger, Celia (ms.). Kinship in action: Reproducing the normative heterosexual nuclear family in "after hours" medical calls.
Kitzinger, Celia (ms.). Speaking as a heterosexual: (How) does sexuality matter for talk-in-interaction?
Mori, Junko (2003). The construction of interculturality: A study of initial encounters between Japanese and American students. Research on Language and Social Interaction 36(2):143-184.
Ochs, Elinor, Tamar Kremer-Sadlik, Olga Solomon, & Karen Gainer Sirota (2001). Inclusion as social practice: Views of children with autism. Social Development 10(3):399-419.
Raymond, Geoffrey, & John Heritage (ms.). The epistemics of social relations: Owning grandchildren.
Sacks, Harvey ([1966] 1979). Hotrodder: A revolutionary category. In George Psathas, ed., Everyday language: Studies in ethnomethodology. New York: Irvington. 7-14.
Sacks, Harvey ([1970] 1986). Some considerations of a story told in ordinary conversation. Poetics 15(1):127-138.
Sacks, Harvey ([1964-65] 1995). Fall 1964-Spring 1965, Lecture 9: "I am nothing" (excerpt). In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 70.
Sacks, Harvey ([1966] 1995). Spring 1966, Lecture 8: "We"; Category-bound activities. In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 333-340.
Sacks, Harvey ([1966] 1995). Spring 1966, Lecture 26: Being "chicken" versus "giving lip back." In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 443-449.
Sacks, Harvey ([1966] 1995). Spring 1966, Lecture 28: Intelligibility; Causally efficacious categories. In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 456-460.
Sacks, Harvey ([1966] 1995). Spring 1966, Lecture 32: Seeing an "imitation." In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 479-482.
Sacks, Harvey ([1967] 1995). Spring 1967, Lecture 12: Category-bound activities; Programmatic relevance; Hinting; Being "phoney." In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 578-583.
Sacks, Harvey ([1967] 1995). Spring 1967, Lecture 13: Category-bound activities: "The baby cried"; Praising, warning, and challenging; Tautological proverbs. In Lectures on conversation. Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 578-583.
Schegloff, Emanuel A. (1997). Whose text? Whose context? Discourse and Society 8(2):165-187.
Schegloff, Emanuel A. (2002). Conversation analysis, then and now. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 19.
Schegloff, Emanuel A. (ms.). Tutorial on membership categorization. Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.
West, Candace (1990). Not just 'doctors' orders': directive-response sequences in patients' visits to women and men physicians. Discourse and Society 1(1): 85-112.
Recommended readings (available on ERes)
Bailey, Benjamin H. (2000). Communicative behavior and conflict between African-American customers and Korean immigrant retailers in Los Angeles. Discourse and Society 11(1):86-108.
Billig, Michael, & Emanuel A. Schegloff (1999). Critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis: An exchange. Discourse and Society 10(4):543-382.
Goffman, Erving (1963). Stigma and social identity. In Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1-40.
Heritage, John, & Geoffrey Raymond (ms.). The terms of agreement: Indexing epistemic authority and subordination in talk-in-interaction.
Jefferson, Gail (2004). A note on laughter in “male-female” interaction. Discourse Studies 6(1):117-133.
Matoesian, Gregory M. (1999). The grammaticalization of participant roles in the constitution of expert identity. Language in Society 28(4):491-521.
Ryoo, Hye-Kyung (2005). Achieving friendly interactions: A study of service encounters between Korean shopkeepers and African-American customers. Discourse and Society 16(1):79-105.
Sacks, Harvey (1984). On doing "being ordinary." In J. Maxwell Atkinson & John Heritage, eds., Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 413-429.
Stokoe, Elizabeth H. (forthcoming). Doing gender, doing categorization: Exploring the possibilities of membership categorization analysis for feminist researchers. Sociological Review.
Other relevant readings
New references will be added to this bibliography throughout the course (and perhaps afterward). Please notify Mary Bucholtz or Gene Lerner if you know of a reference that should be added.
Anderson, Elijah (1990). The black male in public. In Streetwise: Race, class, and change in an urban community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 163-189.
Bucholtz, Mary (1993). The mixed discourse genre as a social resource for participants. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 40-51.
De Fina, Anna (2000). Orientation in immigrant narratives: The role of ethnicity in the identification of characters. Discourse Studies 2(2):131-157.
Gardner, Carol Brooks (1995). Passing by: Gender and public harassment. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gumperz, John J. (1992). Interviewing in intercultural situations. In Paul Drew & John Heritage, eds., Talk at work: Interaction in institutional settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 302-327.
Kitzinger, Celia (2000). How to resist an idiom. Research on Language and Social Interaction 33(2):121-154.
Kitzinger, Celia, & Hannah Frith (2000). Just say no?: The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective on sexual refusal. Discourse and Society 10(3):293-316.
Matoesian, Gregory M. (1993). Reproducing rape: Domination through talk in the courtroom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Matoesian, Gregory M. (2001). Law and the language of identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial. New York: Oxford University Press.
McIlvenny, Paul, ed. (2002). Talking gender and sexuality. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Mendoza-Denton, Norma (1995). Pregnant pauses: Silence and authority in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings. In Kira Hall & Mary Bucholtz, eds., Gender articulated: Language and the socially constructed self. New York: Routledge. 51-66.
Mendoza-Denton, Norma (1999). Turn-initial no: Collaborative opposition among Latina adolescents. In Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, & Laurel A. Sutton, eds., Reinventing identities: The gendered self in discourse. New York: Oxford University Press. 273-292.
Ochs, Elinor, & Carolyn Taylor (1995). The "Father Knows Best" dynamic in dinnertime narratives. In Kira Hall & Mary Bucholtz, eds., Gender articulated: Language and the socially constructed self. New York: Routledge. 97-120.
Schegloff, Emanuel A. (1998). Reply to Wetherell. Discourse and Society 9(3):413-416.
Schegloff, Emanuel A. (2002). Accounts of conduct in interaction: Interruption, overlap, and turn-taking. In Jonathan H. Turner, ed., Handbook of sociological theory. New York: Kluwer. 287-321.
Speer, Susan A. (1999). Feminism and conversation analysis: An oxymoron? Feminism and Psychology 9(4):471-478.
Stokoe, Elizabeth H. (2000). Toward a conversation analytic approach to gender and discourse. Feminism and Psychology 10(4):552-563.
Stokoe, Elizabeth H., & Ann Weatherall, eds. (2002). Gender, language, conversation analysis, and feminism. Special issue of Discourse and Society 13(6).
Thorne, Barrie (1993). Gender play: Girls and boys in school. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Weatherall, Ann (2000). Gender relevance in talk-in-interaction and discourse. Discourse and Society 11(2):286-288.
Wetherell, Margaret (1998). Positioning and interpretative repertoires: Conversation analysis and post-structuralism in dialogue. Discourse and Society 9(3):387-412.