I use the term the embodied turn to mean the point when interest in the body became
established among researchers on language and social interaction, exploiting the greater …

I will have to pass up the opportunity of giving a full explanation and exemplification of what
small stories are. We, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Luke Moissinac, and I, have done this at …

The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every
known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe
the English language? Where can we go to acquire a deeper understanding of pragmatics …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

Human communication is about exchanging information, getting things done, expressing
feelings and emotions–but it is also, crucially, about conveying to one another what kind of …

Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in
conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that …

This article is a pledge that we actually should care about the differences between what has
recently been coined 'small'versus 'big'stories because they represent very different …

Complaints have been studied from two major disciplinary perspectives. Whereas pragmatic
approaches have tended to rely on data elicited via discourse completion tests (DCTs), more …