E Clayman

Biographic Data

ID647871
NAMEE Clayman
GIVEN NAMESE
FAMILY NAMEClayman
SIGNATURECLAYMAN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ORCID0000-0002-8961-162X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS737
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX15

  • Coding Social Interaction: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Procedures

    E Clayman, J HeritageARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2025Cited by: 2References: 30

  • Asking about bias: Managing the sensitivities of voir dire questioning

    Open AccessE Clayman, Matthew P FoxARTICLELanguage in Society2025References: 52

    Jury selection in the US involves voir dire, an examination process wherein prospective jurors are questioned about their potential for fairness or bias. Such inquiries are hampered by social desirability pressures inhibiting admissions of bias. Analogous pressures hamper survey interviews, but since voir dire examinations are unscripted their study can reveal how desirability pressures are addressed through naturally occurring variations in ques…

  • Examining Prospective Jurors: Sensitivities of Probing for Racial Bias

    Open AccessMatthew P Fox, E Clayman et al.ARTICLEContexts2024

    Trial by jury remains the symbolic center of the U.S. justice system. Here, readers bear witness to the process of voir dire, or jury questioning, and efforts to identify racial bias. The problem? Racial prejudice itself is taboo: jurors are reluctant to admit it, and judges and attorneys are reluctant to ask about it

  • Making Arrangements: A Sketch of a ‘Big Package’

    J Heritage, E ClaymanARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2024Cited by: 2References: 10

  • In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–2024

    Open AccessE ClaymanARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2024

  • Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers

    Open AccessE Clayman, Heidi Kevoe-FeldmanARTICLEDiscourse & Society2023References: 15

    The delivery of emergency services is often contingent on social processes launched when someone calls to request help. While initial encounters between civilian callers and institutional call-takers have been extensively studied, little is known about subsequent encounters between dispatchers and first responders. This paper examines police radio dispatch calls and the language practices enacting the dispatcher’s operational role. It sketches th…

  • Pressuring the President: Changing language practices and the growth of political accountability

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E Clayman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2023Cited by: 6References: 15

    This paper examines two historical trends in practices of questioning deployed across a half-century (1953-2000) of U.S. presidential news conferences (164 conferences, 4608 questions): (1) the decline of conventionally indirect question forms, and (2) the rise of negative interrogatives as a polar question format. Both trends show journalists to be exerting increasing pressure on presidents over time but they differ in the nature of that pressur…

  • An Adjunct to Repair: You Know in Speech Production and Understanding Difficulties

    E Clayman, Chase Wesley RaymondARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2021Cited by: 6References: 14

    The English-language particle you know is frequently associated with speech production and understanding difficulties. The present study combines sequential and distributional analyses to explicate the particle’s relationship to the conversational repair system. It demonstrates that you know functions as an adjunct to repair, addressing secondary difficulties associated with implementing self-repair in practice, while also promoting the avoidance…

  • Conversation Analysis and the Study of Sociohistorical Change

    E Clayman, J HeritageARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2021Cited by: 11References: 23

    We reflect on the affordances and challenges of interactional data in the analysis of long-term institutional change. To this end we draw on our studies of direct encounters between journalists and politicians in news interviews and presidential news conferences and in particular the use of question design as a window into the evolution of journalistic norms and press-state relations over time and the causal antecedents of such change. All analys…

  • You know as invoking alignment: A generic resource for emerging problems of understanding and affiliation

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E Clayman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2021Cited by: 26References: 37

  • Gender matters in questioning presidents

    Open AccessE Clayman, J Heritage et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Politics2020Cited by: 2References: 36

    This paper traces the increasing prominence of women in the White House press corps over the latter half of the 20th century, and considers how this trend toward greater gender balance has impacted the questioning of presidents. Modest gender differences are documented in the topical content of questions, with women journalists slightly favoring domestic policy and private-sphere topics relative to men. More substantial differences are documented…

  • Introduction of Douglas W. Maynard for the Cooley-Mead Award

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E Clayman et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2019References: 17

    On the occasion of Douglas Maynard’s selection as recipient of the 2018 Cooley-Mead Award, this essay provides a brief overview of his scholarly career. His diverse and expansive contributions to social psychological theory and research and his tireless mentorship of students and colleagues are both reviewed

  • Polar Questions, Response Preference, and the Tasks of Political Positioning in Journalism

    E Clayman, Laura LoebARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2018Cited by: 3References: 11

    Polar questions encode grammatical and sometimes social preferences for a particular answer. This article examines the use of such preferences in journalism and in particular within political positioning questions aimed at revealing where politicians stand on salient issue and policy debates. Positioning questions are geared to three distinguishable tasks: (a) proffering the recipient’s position for confirmation, (b) eliciting comment on others’ …

  • Mandarin ethnomethodology or mutual interchange

    Open AccessD W Maynard, E Clayman et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies2018Cited by: 6References: 37

    Contributors to the 2016 Special Issue of Discourse Studies on the ‘Epistemics of Epistemics’ (EoE) claim that studies of epistemics in interaction (how participants display orientations to their own and others’ states of knowledge) have lost the ‘radical’ character of groundbreaking work in ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation analysis (CA). We suggest that the critiques and related writings are a kind of mandarin EM, lacking an adequate defin…

  • The Micropolitics of Legitimacy: Political Positioning and Journalistic Scrutiny at the Boundary of the Mainstream

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E ClaymanARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2017Cited by: 7References: 56

    When journalists elicit opinion and policy pronouncements from politicians, this engages a two-dimensional struggle over (1) where the politician stands on the issue in question and (2) the legitimacy of that position. Using data drawn from broadcast news interviews and news conferences, this paper anatomizes the key features of political positioning questions and their responses, and documents a tension surrounding relatively marginal or extreme…

  • Hardballs and softballs: Modulating adversarialness in journalistic questioning

    E Clayman, Steven E Clayman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Politics2017Cited by: 7References: 30

    The design of questions in news interviews and news conferences has proven to be an illuminating window into the tenor of press-state relations. Quantitative studies have charted aggregate variations in adversarial questioning, but less is known about variations in the intensity of adversarialness within any particular question. Such variation is captured by the vernacular distinction between “hardball” versus “softball” questions. Hardballs adva…

  • News Interview

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E ClaymanCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Conversation analysis

    E Clayman, Steven E Clayman et al.CHAPTERThe Routledge handbook of…2015

  • Ethnomethodology, General

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E ClaymanCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Modular Pivots: A Resource for Extending Turns at Talk

    E Clayman, Chase Wesley RaymondARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2015Cited by: 10References: 13

    This article investigates a type of turn constructional pivot structurally different from and more common than those previously analyzed within the literature. Modular pivots are comprised of items of talk that (a) are linguistic adjuncts and hence syntactically optional, (b) routinely appear in both turn-initial and turn-final positions, and (c) are deployed to forge an overlapping or pivotal transition between otherwise discrete TCUs. In additi…

  • Benefactors and beneficiaries: Benefactive status and stance in the management of offers and requests

    E Clayman, J HeritageCHAPTERRequesting in social interaction2014

    The implementation and ascription of ‘first actions’ has until recently been an understudied area within conversation analysis. Recently, exploratory studies in the domains of epistemics and deontics have led to a revival of interest in this problem. This paper addresses the same issue through the lens of ‘benefactives’ and its relevance to the production of requests and offers. It argues that when persons are confronted with a turn at talk that …

  • The Changing Tenor of Questioning Over Time: Tracking a question form across US presidential news conferences, 1953–2000

    J Heritage, E ClaymanARTICLEJournalism Practice2013Cited by: 4References: 19

    This paper uses a single question form—the negative interrogative—as a window into the increasing aggressiveness of American journalists and hence the increasingly adversarial relationship between press and state in the United States. The negative interrogative in English is a type of yes/no interrogative (e.g., “Isn't it ...”, “Don't you ...”) often understood as asserting rather than merely seeking information. Its frequency in the construction…

  • Agency in response: The role of prefatory address terms

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E ClaymanARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2013Cited by: 21References: 23

  • Melvin Pollner: A View from the Suburbs

    Open AccessJ Heritage, E Clayman et al.ARTICLEThe American Sociologist2012Cited by: 2References: 20

  • Address terms in the organization of turns at talk: The case of pivotal turn extensions

    Open AccessE Clayman, Steven E ClaymanARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2012Cited by: 10References: 24