Richard Buttny
Biographic Data
| ID | 78202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Buttny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Buttny |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTNY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Vegans’ problem stories: Negotiating vegan identity in dealing with omnivores
Given the fact that being vegan is generally considered odd or deviant from the mainstream norms of carnism, we examine how vegans manage such social positioning in their dealings with omnivores. This article employs a discursive analysis of vegans’ narratives of problematic moments with omnivores and how they manage such situations and their identity. The vegans’ narratives ranged from problem stories where some troublesome event occurred, but w…
Online interaction across three contexts: An analysis of culture and technological affordances
Students were linked virtually across three contexts: U.S., Malaysia, and China. Differences emerged in how student-created messages were constructed and interpreted; these impacted perceived relational affiliation. Messages constructed by students in Malaysia and China exhibited casual talk, greater self-disclosure, requests for personal information, and greater use of emoticons/emoji. Interactions were perceived as informal, friendly, and posit…
Commentary on accounts for breaking the silence: An Israeli discourse of dissent
What are critical scholars to do when their country has been occupying a neighbor’s land for over 50 years and when this occupation is widely condemned worldwide (Abraham 2014)? The country in ques
Accounting for ‘how we know’ about the safety/risks with hydrofracking: An intergovernmental hearing on the revised Environmental Impact Statement on whether to permit hydrofracking in New York state
An intergovernmental hearing on permitting hydrofracking in New York State is examined. This hearing proved to be a key moment in the debate on hydrofracking. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) advocates for accepting their revised Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), while some Assembly members raise concerns about the risks and are critical of the EIS. The focus is on how techno-scientific discourse is formulated to argue for o…
Communicating hydrofracking
Dialogue on ‘1 Malaysia’: The uses of metadiscourse in ethnopolitical accounting
A small group of ethnically and religiously diverse Malaysians were assembled to discuss the recent call for ‘1 Malaysia’. Dialogue is widely recognized as a worthwhile communication activity to deal with the differences and issues between peoples. But how does dialogue actually work in practice? In this study, metadiscourse – talk about talk – is used as a resource to get at how participants understand their own discussion, for example, ‘we shou…
Accounts of religio-cultural identity in Singapore and Malaysia
Singapore and Malaysia shared a similar history until 1965. They continue to share a similar spread of religions, ethnicities and languages. Even though Chinese are much the largest community in Singapore, and Malays the majority group in Malaysia, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are widely practised in both, while Malay, English, Tamil and several forms of Chinese are widely spoken – and frequently mixed with each other. To identify t…
Journalists’ discursive construction of public opinion on President Obama and the economy: The uses of voters’ voices from a focus group
This study investigates the journalistic construction of news from a focus group of eleven Philadelphia-area voters. The journalists not only represent the participants’ voices, they also present themselves as keen observers — they attempt to display expertise as journalists. The written stories use the participants’ voices more than was found in the journalists’ oral discussion about the focus group. In both the oral and written stories, the jou…
Ethnopolitical discourse among ordinary Malaysians: Diverging accounts of “the good-old days” in discussing multiculturalism
A small group of ethnically diverse Malaysians was assembled to discuss the state of multiculturalism in Malaysia. Discursive analysis was used to get at the participants' accounting practices and constructions of multiculturalism. Participants' accounts revealed an increasing social distance between the Malays and the non-Malays, but differing assessments and explanations for such group boundaries. Participants' accounts drew on both their own e…
Protean experience in discursive analysis
This article reflects on what we mean by experience in discursive analysis in light of James Cresswell’s critique (Cresswell, this issue). Experience does matter, but experience does not determine or presage the narrative or accounts we will give about it. Experience is a resource that we can draw upon and make relevant for our own purposes. Experience is malleable and can be used to tell various stories, depending on the context and the interloc…
Citizen Participation, Metadiscourse, and Accountability: A Public Hearing on a Zoning Change for Wal-Mart
During a contentious public hearing on a zoning change for Wal-Mart, participants at times moved to a metadiscursive level with utterances such as, “expect to be listened to,” “I have a question,” or reading quotes of Town Board members from the newspaper. Such metadiscursive references allow participants to attempt to structure, or depart, from the public hearing format. Metadiscursive references also work to criticize their opponents’ speech or…
Accounts of violence from Arabs and Israelis on Nightline
The North American network, ABC-Television, broadcast the news-panel program, Nightline, from Jerusalem during the beginning days of the Second Intifada. One of the main themes of this discussion was the violence, pain and trauma – the civilians killed or wounded, the military's actions, and how it all started. Even the horrible facts of violence must be told or narrated and discussed for their morality, causes, consequences, responsibility and p…
Drawing on the words of others at public hearings: Zoning, Wal-Mart, and the threat to the aquifer
This study examines two public hearings on a zoning proposal that would allow the construction of a Super Wal-Mart Center on a field over the town's aquifer. Many citizens speak out against the zoning change because of the risk to drinking water, as well as other issues. Citizens face the speaker's problem of how to make their presentations convincing, given the technical matters involved and the fact that Town Board members have likely already h…
Discursive Positioning as Accounting and Dialogic Practice
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Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact
This investigation examines discursive uses of respect in talking about interracial contact. In discussing the documentary, Racism 101, the most frequently quoted portion by African-American and Latino participants was a segment on demanding respect from Whites. Our first study analyzes such discourse-reported speech-for what is made relevant from the original documentary segment. The participants' reported speech conveys little of the exact word…
Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus
This discourse analysis examines North American college students' discursive constructions of racial boundaries, difference, and voluntary segregation on campus. Participants watched the documentary, Racism 101, at home with others and immediately afterwards tape-recorded their discussion about the video and related race matters. None of the participants disagreed with the existence of separateness on campus; they did, however, offer different ac…
Putting Prior Talk Into Context: Reported Speech and the Reporting Context
(1998). Putting Prior Talk Into Context: Reported Speech and the Reporting Context. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 45-58
Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus
Journal Article Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus Get access Richard Buttny Richard Buttny 1Richard Buttny (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1983) is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 23, Issue 4, June 1997, Pages 477–506, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1…
Clients' and Therapist's Joint Construction of the Clients' Problems
The problem of communicating Zen understanding: A microanalysis of teacher-student interviews in a North American Zen monastery
Blame-account sequences in therapy: The negotiation of relational meanings
The ascription of meaning: A Wittgensteinian perspective
Following Wittgenstein's concept of meaning‐as‐use, this essay argues that the ascription of meaning should be based on the satisfaction of contextual criteria. The usefulness of this notion is demonstrated by showing how it can serve as a bridging concept between general rules and situated contexts
Accounts as a reconstruction of an event's context
Persons offer accounts of their actions in problematic situations to change the meaning of an event. This linguistic practice of accounting has been studied primarily for its functions—how accounts manage meanings. This line of research is extended by examining the procedures persons use to accomplish accounts. The reconfiguring of the event's context is the key to understanding how accounts change meanings. The view of context as hierarchically …
White listeners’ responses to “sounding black” and “sounding white”: The effects of message content on judgments about language 1
The effects of sounding black on white listeners' perceptions of experiential and narrative content versus abstract and intellectual content were examined. Using the matched guise technique and 93 college student subjects, three hypotheses were tested: (1) Sounding black predisposes white listeners to respond more negatively to a speaker than sounding white, regardless of content; (2) Sounding black elicits more negative responses from white list…
Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus
Journal Article Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus Get access Richard Buttny Richard Buttny 1Richard Buttny (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1983) is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 23, Issue 4, June 1997, Pages 477–506, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1…
Putting Prior Talk Into Context: Reported Speech and the Reporting Context
(1998). Putting Prior Talk Into Context: Reported Speech and the Reporting Context. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 45-58
Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact
This investigation examines discursive uses of respect in talking about interracial contact. In discussing the documentary, Racism 101, the most frequently quoted portion by African-American and Latino participants was a segment on demanding respect from Whites. Our first study analyzes such discourse-reported speech-for what is made relevant from the original documentary segment. The participants' reported speech conveys little of the exact word…
Clients' and Therapist's Joint Construction of the Clients' Problems
Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus
This discourse analysis examines North American college students' discursive constructions of racial boundaries, difference, and voluntary segregation on campus. Participants watched the documentary, Racism 101, at home with others and immediately afterwards tape-recorded their discussion about the video and related race matters. None of the participants disagreed with the existence of separateness on campus; they did, however, offer different ac…
White listeners’ responses to “sounding black” and “sounding white”: The effects of message content on judgments about language 1
The effects of sounding black on white listeners' perceptions of experiential and narrative content versus abstract and intellectual content were examined. Using the matched guise technique and 93 college student subjects, three hypotheses were tested: (1) Sounding black predisposes white listeners to respond more negatively to a speaker than sounding white, regardless of content; (2) Sounding black elicits more negative responses from white list…
Accounts as a reconstruction of an event's context
Persons offer accounts of their actions in problematic situations to change the meaning of an event. This linguistic practice of accounting has been studied primarily for its functions—how accounts manage meanings. This line of research is extended by examining the procedures persons use to accomplish accounts. The reconfiguring of the event's context is the key to understanding how accounts change meanings. The view of context as hierarchically …
Vegans’ problem stories: Negotiating vegan identity in dealing with omnivores
Given the fact that being vegan is generally considered odd or deviant from the mainstream norms of carnism, we examine how vegans manage such social positioning in their dealings with omnivores. This article employs a discursive analysis of vegans’ narratives of problematic moments with omnivores and how they manage such situations and their identity. The vegans’ narratives ranged from problem stories where some troublesome event occurred, but w…
Accounts of violence from Arabs and Israelis on Nightline
The North American network, ABC-Television, broadcast the news-panel program, Nightline, from Jerusalem during the beginning days of the Second Intifada. One of the main themes of this discussion was the violence, pain and trauma – the civilians killed or wounded, the military's actions, and how it all started. Even the horrible facts of violence must be told or narrated and discussed for their morality, causes, consequences, responsibility and p…
Blame-account sequences in therapy: The negotiation of relational meanings
Dialogue on ‘1 Malaysia’: The uses of metadiscourse in ethnopolitical accounting
A small group of ethnically and religiously diverse Malaysians were assembled to discuss the recent call for ‘1 Malaysia’. Dialogue is widely recognized as a worthwhile communication activity to deal with the differences and issues between peoples. But how does dialogue actually work in practice? In this study, metadiscourse – talk about talk – is used as a resource to get at how participants understand their own discussion, for example, ‘we shou…
Drawing on the words of others at public hearings: Zoning, Wal-Mart, and the threat to the aquifer
This study examines two public hearings on a zoning proposal that would allow the construction of a Super Wal-Mart Center on a field over the town's aquifer. Many citizens speak out against the zoning change because of the risk to drinking water, as well as other issues. Citizens face the speaker's problem of how to make their presentations convincing, given the technical matters involved and the fact that Town Board members have likely already h…
The problem of communicating Zen understanding: A microanalysis of teacher-student interviews in a North American Zen monastery
Accounting for ‘how we know’ about the safety/risks with hydrofracking: An intergovernmental hearing on the revised Environmental Impact Statement on whether to permit hydrofracking in New York state
An intergovernmental hearing on permitting hydrofracking in New York State is examined. This hearing proved to be a key moment in the debate on hydrofracking. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) advocates for accepting their revised Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), while some Assembly members raise concerns about the risks and are critical of the EIS. The focus is on how techno-scientific discourse is formulated to argue for o…
Protean experience in discursive analysis
This article reflects on what we mean by experience in discursive analysis in light of James Cresswell’s critique (Cresswell, this issue). Experience does matter, but experience does not determine or presage the narrative or accounts we will give about it. Experience is a resource that we can draw upon and make relevant for our own purposes. Experience is malleable and can be used to tell various stories, depending on the context and the interloc…
The ascription of meaning: A Wittgensteinian perspective
Following Wittgenstein's concept of meaning‐as‐use, this essay argues that the ascription of meaning should be based on the satisfaction of contextual criteria. The usefulness of this notion is demonstrated by showing how it can serve as a bridging concept between general rules and situated contexts
White listeners’ responses to “sounding black” and “sounding white”: The effects of message content on judgments about language 1
The effects of sounding black on white listeners' perceptions of experiential and narrative content versus abstract and intellectual content were examined. Using the matched guise technique and 93 college student subjects, three hypotheses were tested: (1) Sounding black predisposes white listeners to respond more negatively to a speaker than sounding white, regardless of content; (2) Sounding black elicits more negative responses from white list…
Accounts as a reconstruction of an event's context
Persons offer accounts of their actions in problematic situations to change the meaning of an event. This linguistic practice of accounting has been studied primarily for its functions—how accounts manage meanings. This line of research is extended by examining the procedures persons use to accomplish accounts. The reconfiguring of the event's context is the key to understanding how accounts change meanings. The view of context as hierarchically …
The ascription of meaning: A Wittgensteinian perspective
Following Wittgenstein's concept of meaning‐as‐use, this essay argues that the ascription of meaning should be based on the satisfaction of contextual criteria. The usefulness of this notion is demonstrated by showing how it can serve as a bridging concept between general rules and situated contexts
Blame-account sequences in therapy: The negotiation of relational meanings
The problem of communicating Zen understanding: A microanalysis of teacher-student interviews in a North American Zen monastery
Clients' and Therapist's Joint Construction of the Clients' Problems
Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus
Journal Article Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus Get access Richard Buttny Richard Buttny 1Richard Buttny (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1983) is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 23, Issue 4, June 1997, Pages 477–506, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1…
Putting Prior Talk Into Context: Reported Speech and the Reporting Context
(1998). Putting Prior Talk Into Context: Reported Speech and the Reporting Context. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 45-58
Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus
This discourse analysis examines North American college students' discursive constructions of racial boundaries, difference, and voluntary segregation on campus. Participants watched the documentary, Racism 101, at home with others and immediately afterwards tape-recorded their discussion about the video and related race matters. None of the participants disagreed with the existence of separateness on campus; they did, however, offer different ac…
Discursive Positioning as Accounting and Dialogic Practice
Preview this article: Discursive Positioning as Accounting and Dialogic Practice, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.10.1.09but-1.gif
Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact
This investigation examines discursive uses of respect in talking about interracial contact. In discussing the documentary, Racism 101, the most frequently quoted portion by African-American and Latino participants was a segment on demanding respect from Whites. Our first study analyzes such discourse-reported speech-for what is made relevant from the original documentary segment. The participants' reported speech conveys little of the exact word…
Accounts of violence from Arabs and Israelis on Nightline
The North American network, ABC-Television, broadcast the news-panel program, Nightline, from Jerusalem during the beginning days of the Second Intifada. One of the main themes of this discussion was the violence, pain and trauma – the civilians killed or wounded, the military's actions, and how it all started. Even the horrible facts of violence must be told or narrated and discussed for their morality, causes, consequences, responsibility and p…
Drawing on the words of others at public hearings: Zoning, Wal-Mart, and the threat to the aquifer
This study examines two public hearings on a zoning proposal that would allow the construction of a Super Wal-Mart Center on a field over the town's aquifer. Many citizens speak out against the zoning change because of the risk to drinking water, as well as other issues. Citizens face the speaker's problem of how to make their presentations convincing, given the technical matters involved and the fact that Town Board members have likely already h…
Citizen Participation, Metadiscourse, and Accountability: A Public Hearing on a Zoning Change for Wal-Mart
During a contentious public hearing on a zoning change for Wal-Mart, participants at times moved to a metadiscursive level with utterances such as, “expect to be listened to,” “I have a question,” or reading quotes of Town Board members from the newspaper. Such metadiscursive references allow participants to attempt to structure, or depart, from the public hearing format. Metadiscursive references also work to criticize their opponents’ speech or…
Protean experience in discursive analysis
This article reflects on what we mean by experience in discursive analysis in light of James Cresswell’s critique (Cresswell, this issue). Experience does matter, but experience does not determine or presage the narrative or accounts we will give about it. Experience is a resource that we can draw upon and make relevant for our own purposes. Experience is malleable and can be used to tell various stories, depending on the context and the interloc…
Journalists’ discursive construction of public opinion on President Obama and the economy: The uses of voters’ voices from a focus group
This study investigates the journalistic construction of news from a focus group of eleven Philadelphia-area voters. The journalists not only represent the participants’ voices, they also present themselves as keen observers — they attempt to display expertise as journalists. The written stories use the participants’ voices more than was found in the journalists’ oral discussion about the focus group. In both the oral and written stories, the jou…
Ethnopolitical discourse among ordinary Malaysians: Diverging accounts of “the good-old days” in discussing multiculturalism
A small group of ethnically diverse Malaysians was assembled to discuss the state of multiculturalism in Malaysia. Discursive analysis was used to get at the participants' accounting practices and constructions of multiculturalism. Participants' accounts revealed an increasing social distance between the Malays and the non-Malays, but differing assessments and explanations for such group boundaries. Participants' accounts drew on both their own e…
Dialogue on ‘1 Malaysia’: The uses of metadiscourse in ethnopolitical accounting
A small group of ethnically and religiously diverse Malaysians were assembled to discuss the recent call for ‘1 Malaysia’. Dialogue is widely recognized as a worthwhile communication activity to deal with the differences and issues between peoples. But how does dialogue actually work in practice? In this study, metadiscourse – talk about talk – is used as a resource to get at how participants understand their own discussion, for example, ‘we shou…
Accounts of religio-cultural identity in Singapore and Malaysia
Singapore and Malaysia shared a similar history until 1965. They continue to share a similar spread of religions, ethnicities and languages. Even though Chinese are much the largest community in Singapore, and Malays the majority group in Malaysia, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are widely practised in both, while Malay, English, Tamil and several forms of Chinese are widely spoken – and frequently mixed with each other. To identify t…
Communicating hydrofracking
Accounting for ‘how we know’ about the safety/risks with hydrofracking: An intergovernmental hearing on the revised Environmental Impact Statement on whether to permit hydrofracking in New York state
An intergovernmental hearing on permitting hydrofracking in New York State is examined. This hearing proved to be a key moment in the debate on hydrofracking. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) advocates for accepting their revised Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), while some Assembly members raise concerns about the risks and are critical of the EIS. The focus is on how techno-scientific discourse is formulated to argue for o…
Commentary on accounts for breaking the silence: An Israeli discourse of dissent
What are critical scholars to do when their country has been occupying a neighbor’s land for over 50 years and when this occupation is widely condemned worldwide (Abraham 2014)? The country in ques
Online interaction across three contexts: An analysis of culture and technological affordances
Students were linked virtually across three contexts: U.S., Malaysia, and China. Differences emerged in how student-created messages were constructed and interpreted; these impacted perceived relational affiliation. Messages constructed by students in Malaysia and China exhibited casual talk, greater self-disclosure, requests for personal information, and greater use of emoticons/emoji. Interactions were perceived as informal, friendly, and posit…
Vegans’ problem stories: Negotiating vegan identity in dealing with omnivores
Given the fact that being vegan is generally considered odd or deviant from the mainstream norms of carnism, we examine how vegans manage such social positioning in their dealings with omnivores. This article employs a discursive analysis of vegans’ narratives of problematic moments with omnivores and how they manage such situations and their identity. The vegans’ narratives ranged from problem stories where some troublesome event occurred, but w…
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