Social Accountability in Communication

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8306-9
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Language & Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association 2007!

Much of our talk revolves around accounting for our own and other people's actions. We praise one person and blame another, justify our own actions, speculate on motives, tell and retell problematic events. This volume draws upon speech communication, sociology and social psychology to offer an original approach to such accounts.

Richard Buttny examines social accountability within communication contexts that range from a therapy session to welfare and broadcast news interviews, from everyday conversation to discussions in a Zen monastery. Throughout his wide-ranging analysis of accounts talk, he integrates conversation analytic methods with social constructionism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buttny, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Marvin Scott
Introduction and Preview
Social Accountability and the Practical Necessity for Accounts
A Reading of the Accounts Literature
A Conversation Analytic Constructionist Perspective on Accounts
Accounts Analysis
Methods and Methodological Issues
Blame-Accounts Sequences in Couple Therapy
Accountability for Relational Problems
Discursive Affect in Situations of Social Accountability
The Social Accountability of Zen Understanding - with Thomas L Isbell
Teacher-Student Interviews in a North American Zen Monastery
Social Accountability Practices during a Welfare Interview
Diverging Accounts, Repeated Problems, and Ascriptions of Responsibility
Accounts and Accountability Practices in News Interviews
Conclusion
Social Accountability Practices in Contexts

Über Autor(innen)

Buttny, Richard
Richard Buttny is Associate Professor in the speech communication department at Syracuse University