Gail Jefferson
Biographic Data
| ID | 228069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Jefferson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Jefferson |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFERSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5603 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally managed, party-administered, intera…
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The article is the first Russian translation of the most well-known piece in conversation analysis (CA), written by the founders of CA Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. It has become a milestone in the development of the discipline. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to the study of conversational interactions. The approach is based on the analysis of detailed transcripts of the records of natural conversations. The auth…
Sometimes a frog in your throat is just a frog in your throat: Gutturals as (sometimes) laughter-implicative
A sketch of some orderly aspects of overlap in natural conversation
“At first I thought”: A normalizing device for extraordinary events
Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
A Note on Laughter in ‘Male–Female’Interaction
Working with interactional data, one sometimes observes that a type of behavior seems to be produced a great deal by one category of persons and not all that much by another category. But when put to the test of a straightforward count, the observation does not hold up: Category X does not after all do this thing significantly more often than Category Y does. It may then be that the apparent skewing of the behavior’s distribution across categorie…
Analysing Interaction: Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct
Is "no" an acknowledgment token? Comparing American and British uses of (+)/(−) tokens
On the poetics of ordinary talk1
This article is based on a talk presented in 1977. Harvey Sacks, the founder of Conversation Analysis, had been killed in a traffic accident in 1975. Without his extraordinary presence the field seemed to be becoming defined by a paper published in 1974, "A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation." The 1977 talk was specifically directed to loosening up people's sense of the sort of work done in the field of Conve…
A case of transcriptional stereotyping
Lectures on Conversation
Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature
(1993). Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-30
On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation
Journal Article On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation Get access Gail Jefferson Gail Jefferson Rinsumageest, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Juckemawei 29, 9015 KA Rinsumageest, The Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 October 1988, Pages 418–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/800595 Published: 31 July 2014
Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy
Notes on ?latency? in overlap onset
On the interactional unpackaging of a 'gloss
In the reporting of a situation or event, a speaker can sometimes be seen to have omitted or 'glossed over' a constituent component. There are times when that component is something a speaker would rather not have the coparticipant know. Sometimes, however, the speaker is willing, indeed eager, to share this material with the coparticipant, but is constrained from simply producing it then and there (the matter being possibly bizarre, risqué, or i…
The rejection of advice: Managing the problematic convergence of a 'troubles-telling' and a 'service encounter
On “Trouble‐Premonitory” Response to Inquiry
Sequential Aspects of Storytelling in Conversation11This is a revised version of a paper presented at Seminars in Ethnomethodology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 1973. Great appr…
What's in a 'Nyem
We can note that while Strict* tokens for each member of the set, e.g. [yes or yeah] and [no] are quite acoustically distinct, one from the other, a range of 'lax* pronunciations of each can result in objects which are almost identical, one to the other, e.g. 'nuh' and 'yiih', 'neh* and 'yeh', etc. Also we can find sounds like 'mnyeh,' 'neuh,' 'nyem', etc., which are used for both affirmative and negative. The result is that the token itself may …
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
Some Sequential Negotiations in Conversation: Unexpanded and Expanded Versions of Projected Action Sequences
This paper reports findings of research into the organizational structure of ordinary conversation. Substantively, the paper is preoccupied with building rigorous descriptions of transcribed conversational materials; a technical appreciation of the action sequences organizing chunks of talk into meaningful interactional units is developed as increasingly non-intuitive observations detail the systematic expansions of three turn action sequences in…
Error correction as an interactional resource
This paper considers some small errors which occur in natural talk, treating them as matters of competence, both in the production of coherent speech and the conduct of meaningful interaction.Focusing on a rule-governed occurrence of the interjection 'uh', a format is described by which one can display that one is correcting an error one almost, but did not, produce. It is argued that there are systematic ways in which someone who hears such talk…
A Case of Precision Timing in Ordinary Conversation: Overlapped Tag-Positioned Address Terms in Closing Sequences
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally managed, party-administered, intera…
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation
Journal Article On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation Get access Gail Jefferson Gail Jefferson Rinsumageest, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Juckemawei 29, 9015 KA Rinsumageest, The Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 October 1988, Pages 418–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/800595 Published: 31 July 2014
The rejection of advice: Managing the problematic convergence of a 'troubles-telling' and a 'service encounter
A Case of Precision Timing in Ordinary Conversation: Overlapped Tag-Positioned Address Terms in Closing Sequences
Error correction as an interactional resource
This paper considers some small errors which occur in natural talk, treating them as matters of competence, both in the production of coherent speech and the conduct of meaningful interaction.Focusing on a rule-governed occurrence of the interjection 'uh', a format is described by which one can display that one is correcting an error one almost, but did not, produce. It is argued that there are systematic ways in which someone who hears such talk…
On “Trouble‐Premonitory” Response to Inquiry
Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature
(1993). Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-30
Notes on ?latency? in overlap onset
Is "no" an acknowledgment token? Comparing American and British uses of (+)/(−) tokens
On the poetics of ordinary talk1
This article is based on a talk presented in 1977. Harvey Sacks, the founder of Conversation Analysis, had been killed in a traffic accident in 1975. Without his extraordinary presence the field seemed to be becoming defined by a paper published in 1974, "A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation." The 1977 talk was specifically directed to loosening up people's sense of the sort of work done in the field of Conve…
A Note on Laughter in ‘Male–Female’Interaction
Working with interactional data, one sometimes observes that a type of behavior seems to be produced a great deal by one category of persons and not all that much by another category. But when put to the test of a straightforward count, the observation does not hold up: Category X does not after all do this thing significantly more often than Category Y does. It may then be that the apparent skewing of the behavior’s distribution across categorie…
On the interactional unpackaging of a 'gloss
In the reporting of a situation or event, a speaker can sometimes be seen to have omitted or 'glossed over' a constituent component. There are times when that component is something a speaker would rather not have the coparticipant know. Sometimes, however, the speaker is willing, indeed eager, to share this material with the coparticipant, but is constrained from simply producing it then and there (the matter being possibly bizarre, risqué, or i…
What's in a 'Nyem
We can note that while Strict* tokens for each member of the set, e.g. [yes or yeah] and [no] are quite acoustically distinct, one from the other, a range of 'lax* pronunciations of each can result in objects which are almost identical, one to the other, e.g. 'nuh' and 'yiih', 'neh* and 'yeh', etc. Also we can find sounds like 'mnyeh,' 'neuh,' 'nyem', etc., which are used for both affirmative and negative. The result is that the token itself may …
Sometimes a frog in your throat is just a frog in your throat: Gutturals as (sometimes) laughter-implicative
A case of transcriptional stereotyping
Some Sequential Negotiations in Conversation: Unexpanded and Expanded Versions of Projected Action Sequences
This paper reports findings of research into the organizational structure of ordinary conversation. Substantively, the paper is preoccupied with building rigorous descriptions of transcribed conversational materials; a technical appreciation of the action sequences organizing chunks of talk into meaningful interactional units is developed as increasingly non-intuitive observations detail the systematic expansions of three turn action sequences in…
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The article is the first Russian translation of the most well-known piece in conversation analysis (CA), written by the founders of CA Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. It has become a milestone in the development of the discipline. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to the study of conversational interactions. The approach is based on the analysis of detailed transcripts of the records of natural conversations. The auth…
Lectures on Conversation
A Case of Precision Timing in Ordinary Conversation: Overlapped Tag-Positioned Address Terms in Closing Sequences
Error correction as an interactional resource
This paper considers some small errors which occur in natural talk, treating them as matters of competence, both in the production of coherent speech and the conduct of meaningful interaction.Focusing on a rule-governed occurrence of the interjection 'uh', a format is described by which one can display that one is correcting an error one almost, but did not, produce. It is argued that there are systematic ways in which someone who hears such talk…
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
Some Sequential Negotiations in Conversation: Unexpanded and Expanded Versions of Projected Action Sequences
This paper reports findings of research into the organizational structure of ordinary conversation. Substantively, the paper is preoccupied with building rigorous descriptions of transcribed conversational materials; a technical appreciation of the action sequences organizing chunks of talk into meaningful interactional units is developed as increasingly non-intuitive observations detail the systematic expansions of three turn action sequences in…
Sequential Aspects of Storytelling in Conversation11This is a revised version of a paper presented at Seminars in Ethnomethodology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 1973. Great appr…
What's in a 'Nyem
We can note that while Strict* tokens for each member of the set, e.g. [yes or yeah] and [no] are quite acoustically distinct, one from the other, a range of 'lax* pronunciations of each can result in objects which are almost identical, one to the other, e.g. 'nuh' and 'yiih', 'neh* and 'yeh', etc. Also we can find sounds like 'mnyeh,' 'neuh,' 'nyem', etc., which are used for both affirmative and negative. The result is that the token itself may …
On “Trouble‐Premonitory” Response to Inquiry
The rejection of advice: Managing the problematic convergence of a 'troubles-telling' and a 'service encounter
On the interactional unpackaging of a 'gloss
In the reporting of a situation or event, a speaker can sometimes be seen to have omitted or 'glossed over' a constituent component. There are times when that component is something a speaker would rather not have the coparticipant know. Sometimes, however, the speaker is willing, indeed eager, to share this material with the coparticipant, but is constrained from simply producing it then and there (the matter being possibly bizarre, risqué, or i…
Notes on ?latency? in overlap onset
Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy
On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation
Journal Article On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation Get access Gail Jefferson Gail Jefferson Rinsumageest, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Juckemawei 29, 9015 KA Rinsumageest, The Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 October 1988, Pages 418–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/800595 Published: 31 July 2014
Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature
(1993). Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-30
Lectures on Conversation
On the poetics of ordinary talk1
This article is based on a talk presented in 1977. Harvey Sacks, the founder of Conversation Analysis, had been killed in a traffic accident in 1975. Without his extraordinary presence the field seemed to be becoming defined by a paper published in 1974, "A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation." The 1977 talk was specifically directed to loosening up people's sense of the sort of work done in the field of Conve…
A case of transcriptional stereotyping
Analysing Interaction: Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct
Is "no" an acknowledgment token? Comparing American and British uses of (+)/(−) tokens
A sketch of some orderly aspects of overlap in natural conversation
“At first I thought”: A normalizing device for extraordinary events
Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
A Note on Laughter in ‘Male–Female’Interaction
Working with interactional data, one sometimes observes that a type of behavior seems to be produced a great deal by one category of persons and not all that much by another category. But when put to the test of a straightforward count, the observation does not hold up: Category X does not after all do this thing significantly more often than Category Y does. It may then be that the apparent skewing of the behavior’s distribution across categorie…
Sometimes a frog in your throat is just a frog in your throat: Gutturals as (sometimes) laughter-implicative
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The article is the first Russian translation of the most well-known piece in conversation analysis (CA), written by the founders of CA Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. It has become a milestone in the development of the discipline. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to the study of conversational interactions. The approach is based on the analysis of detailed transcripts of the records of natural conversations. The auth…
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally managed, party-administered, intera…
Psychology (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Communication (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Conversation (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works)