Academic Publications

Journal Issues Edited

Family Discourse.  Special issue of Text 26.4, 2006.  Co-edited with Marjorie Harness Goodwin.

Gender and Conversational Interaction. Special issue of Discourse Processes 13:1, 1990.

Articles

"Interactional Sociolinguistics." Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook, ed. by Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier, and Peter Trudgill.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, in press.

Introduction to "Stylistic Strategies Within a Grammar of Style" by Robin Lakoff. In Her Own Voice: Collected Writings of Robin Tolmach Lakoff, ed. by Laurel Sutton. New York: Oxford University Press, in press.

Introduction to Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001, ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis.  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2003.

"Power Maneuvers or Connection Maneuvers? Ventriloquizing in Family Interaction," Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001, ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis.  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2003.

"Agonism in Academic Discourse."  Journal of Pragmatics 34:10-11 (2002):1651-1669.

"Discourse and Gender." The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton, 548-567. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001 (with Shari Kendall).

"Agonism in the Academy: Surviving Higher Learning's Argument Culture." The Chronicle of Higher Education 46:30 (March 31, 2000): B7, B8.  .

"'Don't Just Sit There–Interrupt!' Pacing and Pausing in Conversational Style." American Speech 75.4 (2000):393-395.

"Foreword." Language in Action: New Studies of Language in Society, Festschrift for Roger Shuy, ed. by Joy Peyton, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph Fasold, ix-x.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000.

"Indirectness at Work." Language in Action: New Studies of Language in Society, Festschrift for Roger Shuy, ed. by Joy Peyton, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph Fasold, 189-212.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000.

"The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work." Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, ed. by Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel A. Sutton, pp. 221- 240. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

"The Poetics of Everyday Conversation." Language Alive in the Classroom, ed. by Rebecca Wheeler, 179-186. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.

"Women and Men in Conversation." The Workings of Language: From Prescriptions to Perspectives, ed. by Rebecca Wheeler. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. (Reprinted from The Washington Post)

"Managing Confrontations: Lessons from Abroad." The Responsive Community 8:2(Spring 1998), 33-40. (Reprinted from The Argument Culture)

"'Oh Talking Voice That Is So Sweet': The Poetic Nature of Conversation." Social Research 65:3(Fall 1998).631-651.

"Conversational Patterns Across Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: Implications for Classroom Discourse." Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol. 3, Oral Discourse and Education, ed. by Bronwyn Davies and David Corson, 75-85. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 1997 (with Shari Kendall and Carolyn Temple Adger).

Foreword, Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other, by Haru Yamada, pp. xv-xvii. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

"Gender and Language in the Workplace." Gender and Discourse, ed. by Ruth Wodak. pp. 81-105. London: Sage, 1997. (with Shari Kendall).

"Involvement as Dialogue: Linguistic Theory and the Relation Between Conversational and Literary Discourse." Dialogue and Critical Discourse, ed. by Michael Macovski, 137-157. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

"The Place of the Personal in Scholarship," PMLA Forum, October 1996, pp. 1151-1152.

"Researching Gender-Related Patterns in Classroom Discourse," TESOL Quarterly 30:2(1996).341-344.

"The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why." Harvard Business Review 73 (1995):5.

"The Sex-Class-Linked Framing of Talk at Work." Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, ed. by Mary Bucholtz, Anita Liang, Laurel A. Sutton and Caitlin Hines. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1994, pp. 712-728. Revised version included in Gender and Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1995.

"Waiting for the Mouse: Constructed Dialogue in Conversation." The Dialogic Emergence of Culture, ed. by Bruce Mannheim and Dennis Tedlock, 198-217. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

"Communication Between the Sexes." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, 471-472. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

"Introduction," Gender and Discourse, pp. 3-17. Oxford University Press, 1994.

"Introduction," Framing in Discourse, ed. by Deborah Tannen, 3-13. Oxford University Press, 1993.

"The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance." Gender and Conversational Interaction, ed. by Deborah Tannen, 165-188. Oxford University Press, 1993.

"Introduction," Gender and Conversational Interaction, ed. by Deborah Tannen, 3-13. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

"How is Conversation Like Literary Discourse?: The Role of Imagery and Details in Creating Involvement." The Linguistics of Literacy, ed. by Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima, and Michael Noonan. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1992, pp. 31-46.

"Power and Solidarity in Modern Greek Conversation: Disagreeing to Agree." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 10:1(1992).11-34 (with Christina Kakava).

"Literacy: Sociolinguistic Aspects." Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 2, ed. by William Bright, pp. 346-8. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

"Interactional Sociolinguistics." Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 4, ed. by William Bright, pp. 9-11. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

"Teachers' Classroom Strategies Should Recognize That Men and Women Use Language Differently." The Chronicle of Higher Education 37:40 (June 19, 1991): B1, B3.  Reprinted in The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers at Princeton,  ed. by John McPhee and Carol Rigolot.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001

"Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance." Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. by Kira Hall, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Michael Meacham, Sondra Reinman, and Laurel A. Sutton, 519-29. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1990.

"Ordinary Conversation and Literary Discourse: Coherence and the Poetics of Repetition." The Uses of Linguistics, ed. by Edward Bendix, 15-32. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences vol. 583, 1990.

"Silence as Conflict Management in Pinter's Betrayal and a Short Story, 'Great Wits'." Conflict Talk, ed. by Allen Grimshaw, 260-279. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990.

"Gender Differences in Topical Coherence: Creating Involvement in Best Friends' Talk." Discourse Processes 13(1990):1.73-90.

"Gender Differences in Conversational Coherence: Physical Alignment and Topical Cohesion." Conversational Coherence and its Development, ed. by Bruce Dorval, 167-206. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 1990.

"Interpreting Interruption in Conversation." Papers from the 25th Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Part Two: Parasession on Language in Context, ed. by Bradley Music, Randolph Graczyk, and Caroline Wiltshire, 266-87. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1989.

"Introduction." Linguistics in Context: Connecting Observation and Understanding, ed. by Deborah Tannen, 1-14. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988.

"Hearing Voices in Conversation, Fiction, and Mixed Genres." Linguistics in Context: Connecting Observation and Understanding, ed. by Deborah Tannen, 89-113. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988.

"The Commingling of Orality and Literacy in Giving a Paper at a Scholarly Conference." American Speech 63(1988):1.34-43.

"Repetition in Conversation as Spontaneous Formulaicity." Text 7(1987):3.215-243.

"Repetition in Conversation: Toward a Poetics of Talk." Language 63(1987):3.574-605.

"The Relation Between Written and Spoken Language." Annual Reviews in Anthropology 16(1987):383-407 (with Wallace Chafe).

"The Orality of Literature and the Literacy of Conversation." Language, Literacy, and Culture: Issues of Society and Schooling, ed. by Judith Langer, 67-88. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987.

"Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview." Social Psychology Quarterly 50:2.205-216 (with Cynthia Wallat), 1987.

"Remarks on Discourse and Power." Power Through Discourse, ed by Leah Kedar, 3-10. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987.

"Conversational Style." Psycholinguistic Models of Production, ed. by Hans Dechert and Manfred Raupach, 251-67. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987.

"Introduction." Discourse in Cross-cultural Communication. Special issue of Text 6(1986):2.143-151.

"Medical Professionals and Parents: A Linguistic Analysis of Communication Across Contexts." Language in Society 15(1986):3.295-311. (with Cynthia Wallat).

"Folk Formality." Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 246-60, 1986.

"Introducing Constructed Dialogue in Greek and American Conversational and Literary Narratives." Direct and Indirect Speech, ed. by Florian Coulmas, 311-322. Berlin: Mouton, 1986.

"Frames Revisited." "Frame Semantics II," Quaderni di Semantica 7(1986):l.106-109.

"Cross-cultural Communication." Handbook of Discourse Analysis, vol. 4, Discourse Analysis in Society, ed. by Teun van Dijk. London & Orlando: Academic Press, 203-215, 1986.

"The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication." Applied Linguistics 5(1983):3.189-95.

"Frames and Schemas in Interaction." "Quaderni di Semantica's Round Table discussion on frame/script semantics," ed. by Victor Raskin. Quaderni di Semantica 6(1985):2.326-335.

"Relative Focus on Involvement in Oral and Written Discourse. " Literacy, Language and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing, ed. by David Olson, Nancy Torrance, and Angela Hildyard, 124-147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

"Introduction." Perspectives on Silence, ed. by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, xi-xviii, 1985. (with Muriel Saville-Troike).

"Silence: Anything But." Perspectives on Silence, ed. by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike, 93-111. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1985.

"Cross-Cultural Communication." CATESOL Occasional Papers 10(1984).1-16.

"Conversational Strategy and Metastrategy in a Pragmatic Theory: The Example of Scenes From a Marriage." Semiotica 49(1984):3/4.323-346. (with Robin Tolmach Lakoff)

"Introduction." Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse, ed. by Deborah Tannen. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, xiii-xvii, 1984.

"Spoken and Written Narrative in English and Greek." Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse, ed. by Deborah Tannen. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 21-41, 1984.

"Language and Power." Forum (Georgetown Graduate Review) 1(1984):1.20-22.

"'I Take Out the Rock -- DOK!': How Greek Women Tell about Being Molested (and Create Involvement)." Anthropological Linguistics 25(1983):3.359-374.

"When is an Overlap not an Interruption? One Component of Conversational Style." The First Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, ed. Robert J. Di Pietro, William Frawley, and Alfred Wedel, 119-129. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983.

"Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Discourse." Literacy for Life: The Demand for Reading and Writing, ed. Richard W. Bailey and Robin Melanie Fosheim, 79-96. New York: Modern Language Association, 1983.

"Doctor/Mother/Child Communication: Linguistic Analysis of a Pediatric Interaction." The Social Organization of Doctor/ Patient Communication, ed. by Sue Fisher and Alexandra Dundas Todd, 203-219. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1983.

"Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Narratives." Language 58(1982):1.1-21.

"Introduction." Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1981, ed. by Deborah Tannen, ix-xiii. Washington, DC: Georgetown U. Press, 1982.

"Ethnic Style in Male/Female Conversation." Language and Social Identity, ed. John Gumperz, 217-231. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

"The Myth of Orality and Literacy." Linguistics and Literacy, ed. by William Frawley, 37-50. New York: Plenum, 1982.

"A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Multiple Demands on the Pediatrician in Doctor/Mother/Child Interaction." Linguistics and the Professions, ed. by Robert Di Pietro, 39-50. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982.

"The Oral/Literate Continuum in Discourse." Spoken and Written Language, ed. by Deborah Tannen, 1-16. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982.

"Two Kinds of Knowing in Spoken and Written Language." fforum 3(1981):120-21.

"Indirectness in Discourse: Ethnicity as Conversational Style." Discourse Processes 4(1981):3.221-238. Earlier draft appeared as Sociolinguistic Working Paper #55 (January 1979), reprinted in Language and Speech in American Society. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1980.

"New York Jewish Conversational Style." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 30(1981).133-149.

"Health to Our Mouths: Formulaic Expressions in Turkish and Greek." Conversational Routine, ed. by Florian Coulmas, 37-54. The Hague: Mouton, 1981. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1977, 516-534. (with Piyale Comert Oztek)

"The Machine-gun Question: An Example of Conversational Style." Journal of Pragmatics 5(1981):5.383-397. Earlier draft appeared as "Toward a Theory of Conversational Style: The Machine Gun Question." Sociolinguistic Working Paper #73. Austin: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1980.

"Implications of the Oral/Literate Continuum for Cross-cultural Communication." Current Issues in Bilingualism, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1980, ed. by James E. Alatis, 326-347. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1980. Reprinted in Perspectives on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, ed. by James E. Alatis and John Staczek, 312-333. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1985.

"Oral and Literate Strategies in Discourse." The Linguistic Reporter 22(1980):9.1-3.

"The Parameters of Conversational Style." Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Parasession on Topics in Interactive Discourse, 34-35, 1980.

"Spoken/Written Language and the Oral/Literate Continuum." Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1980, 207-218.

"A Comparative Analysis of Oral Narrative Strategies: Athenian Greek and American English." The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production, ed. by Wallace Chafe, 51-87. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1980.

"What's in a Frame? Surface Evidence for Underlying Expectations." New Directions in Discourse Processing, ed. by Roy Freedle, 137-181. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1979.

"Communicative Strategies in Conversation: The Case of Scenes From a Marriage." Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 81-92, 1979. (with Robin Tolmach Lakoff)

"Individual and Social Differences in Language Use." Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior, ed. by Charles Fillmore, Daniel Kempler, and William S.-Y. Wang, 305-325. New York: Academic Press, 1979. (with John Gumperz)

"The Effect of Expectations on Conversation." Discourse Processes 1(1978):2.203-209.

"A Cross-Cultural Study of Oral Narrative Style." Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 640-650, 1978.

"Well, What Did You Expect?" Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1977, 506-515.

"Communication Mix and Mixup, or How Linguistics Can Ruin a Marriage." San Jose State Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 1975, 205-211.

Web Publication

Publications: Literature

"Introduction." I Istoria tis Parthenias tis Despoinidas Tade (The Story of the Virginity of Miss Doe): Collected Stories of Lilika Nakos. Athens: Dorikos, 1981.

"Mothers and Daughters in the Modern Greek Novels of Lilika Nakos." Women's Studies 6(1978):3.205-215.

"Celtic Elements in Three Works by William Butler Yeats." Folklore and Mythology Studies 2(1978).30-35.

"Coming of Age in the Modern Greek Novels of Lilika Nakos." Regionalism and the Female Imagination 4(1978):1.

"Lilika Nakos and Other Greek Women Writers," Pilgrimage 2(1976):5.5-8.

"Keylessness, Sex, and the Promised Land: Associated Themes in Ulysses." Eire-Ireland 821(1973).97-108.

"Manannan MacLir in Ulysses." Eire-Ireland 7(1972):3.29-35.

Bibliography

"Bibliography of Lilika Nakos," Tomes 48 (1979).

Book Review

Ersi Lange, Ellinidhes Pezografoi (Greek Women Prosewriters), Books Abroad 5(1976):2.