I Hutchby
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8184 |
|---|---|
| NOME | I Hutchby |
| PRENOMES | I |
| SOBRENOME | Hutchby |
| ASSINATURA | HUTCHBY I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8469-1667 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 792 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Going meta
In the modern hybrid media landscape, the relations between journalists and politicians in arenas such as the broadcast news interview can seem less stable. Politicians and their advisors seem increasingly confident in identifying when and how to engage with political interviewers while journalists, in response, feel under pressure to intensify their role as scrutineering tribunes of the people. In such an environment, the normative interactional…
Prospective expertise
This article details the functions of the imperative verb ‘listen’ in the pre-match build-up discussions of television football pundits. Data were recorded from live coverage of recent national and international football competitions. The analysis shows how ‘listen’ plays a role in what is referred to as prospective expertise : the work accomplished during the extensive pre-game build-up sections of a show, in which pundits engage in highlighting…
Give My Child a Label
Child mental health services are in rising demand, but increasingly overstretched and difficult for families to access. This article examines rhetorical techniques used by parents seeking a mental health diagnosis for their child. Using recordings of consultations from a child mental health clinic (UK) with 28 families, analysis focuses on the use of 'epistemic corroboration', a strategy by which third-party candidate diagnoses are reported to su…
‘I was just thinking’
Based on a corpus of child mental health assessment meetings, this article explores how practitioners use reports on their own cognitive processing, such as I was just thinking or I’m just wondering, in interaction with children and adolescents presenting with potential mental health issues. Using the methods of conversation analysis, the findings reveal different ways in which this device is used to encourage the child to engage with a particula…
So my position is
This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, …
Performed retelling
Let’s check-in with our tummies
This article examines a particular kind of business-opening activity found in a specific, and little analysed, type of institutional group meeting: group supervision for psychotherapeutic counsellors. The data consist of a particular set of activities that occur in the initial stages of these meetings, which are neither the kind of pre-meeting talk identified by previous research on interaction in meetings, nor specifically the business of group …
Conversation Analysis
Conversation analysis is an approach to sociology that investigates the sequential organization of talk as a way of accessing participants' understandings of, and collaborative means of organizing, natural forms of social interaction. As a method it has been widely applied not just to the analysis of conversation but to numerous forms of institutional interaction. A distinctive feature of this method is that instead of relying on participants' re…
Hybridisation, personalisation and tribuneship in the political interview
This article discusses elements of hybridisation in political interviewing within the contemporary environment of broadcast news. Beginning from a conversation analytic perspective, four types of political interview programmes are described in terms of their different approaches to questions and answers; opinions and arguments; and neutrality, agency and advocacy. The analysis then turns to the different ways in which ‘tribuneship’ is manifested …
Infelicitous talk
This article explores how the mediatisation of politics is evolving by analysing the different ways in which three political “gaffes” in recent British politics have been configured by the media environment. The article draws on theories suggesting that contemporary political action is enveloped by media scrutiny and the technological forms of mediation are diversified and hybridised rather than concentrated and uniform. Using case studies, the a…
Communicative affordances and participation frameworks in mediated interaction
Confrontation Talk
Using conversation analysis to explore the nature of argument, asymmetry, and power on talk radio, this book focuses on the interplay between the structures of talk in interaction and the structures of participation on talk radio. In the process, it demonstrates how conversation analysis may be used to account for power as a feature of institutional discourse. To address a number of key issues in the study of institutional communication and confl…
Obama in the No Spin Zone
In the run-up to the 2008 US presidential election, the three senators who were competing to replace the outgoing president, George W. Bush, in the White House (John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) each gave extended interviews to cable channel Fox News’ nightly show The O’Reilly Factor. Billed as the ‘No Spin Zone’, this news programme and its eponymous host, Bill O’Reilly, pride themselves on cutting through the ‘spin’ of political co…
Ethics in praxis
The use of video for research purposes is something that has attracted ethical attention and debate. While the usefulness of video as a mechanism to collect data is widely agreed, the ethical sensitivity and impact of recording equipment is more contentious. In some clinical settings the presence of a camera has a dual role, as a portal to a reflecting team and as a recording device to obtain research data. Using data from one such setting, famil…
Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview
This article explores the nature of argumentative interaction in the hybrid political interview: a broadcast news genre whose discourse positions the journalist not just as investigator but as socio-political advocate. Such interviews offer explicit challenges to the traditionally conceived ‘neutral’ role of the broadcast news journalist. Interviewer ‘non-neutrality’ is examined in contexts where the speech exchange system shifts into the unmitig…
Children’s participation and the familial moral order in family therapy
This article examines discourse practices surrounding children’s participation, non-participation, and the ‘moral order’ of the family in the setting of family therapy consultations. The analysis focuses on two central issues. First, the relationship between therapists’ questions, the speaker selection techniques built into those questions, and the responses produced by family members. Second, the relationship between turn-taking and the linguist…
Participants' orientations to interruptions, rudeness and other impolite acts in talk-in-interaction
This paper demonstrates how impoliteness is viewed from the perspective of conversation analysis. Offering an alternative to sociolinguistic policies of establishing the linguistic features that characterize impolite speech acts, it explores the ways that members themselves orient to actions in interaction as impolite, i.e., “rude” and/or “insulting”. The analysis draws on data from a range of settings including ordinary conversation, small claim…
Incommensurable’ studies of mobile phone conversation
Arminen(2005) claimsthattworecentstudiesof mobilephone conversation (Hutchby and Barnett, 2005 and Arminen and Leinonen, forthcoming) come up with incommensurate findings. He relates this to two distinct approaches to the methodology of conversation analysis. In this reply I show that the two studies in question are not incommensurate and argue that Arminen's account is based on a partial description of the findings in Hutchby and Barnett (2005).…
Active Listening
This article presents an analysis of the talk of child counsellors in interaction with young children (4-12 years). The data consist of recordings of counselling sessions offered to children whose parents are in the process of separation or divorce. The ostensible aim of the service was to provide normalizing interventions rather than dealing with clinical referrals. The focus of the article is on the practice of what is known in counselling psyc…
Aspects of the sequential organization of mobile phone conversation
This article presents an investigation of the organization and structures of talk-in-interaction over mobile phone. The analysis is based upon naturally occurring data consisting of a corpus of calls recorded during everyday activities of a young adult. Using these data we reveal a range of sequential phenomena associated with mobile phone usage. Established conversation analytic work on landline telephone conversation is used in order to build a…
Children's talk and social competence
This article reviews research on the organisation of children's talk. It outlines the range of disciplinary concerns that contribute to the study of children's talk, and focuses on a range of work which foregrounds linkages between children's talk, social interaction and wider social processes. Paying particular attention to studies in conversation analysis, the emphasis is on how talk in peer-group and in child-adult interaction contributes to v…
Affordances and the Analysis of Technologically Mediated Interaction
Methodology Needs Analytics
From Ethics to Analytics
In discussions of sociological research based on the recording of interactional occasions, participants' awareness of the presence of recording devices is often deemed to have a detrimental effect on the 'authenticity' or 'naturalness' of the data collected. We propose an alternative approach to this issue by seeking to turn participants' observable orientations to the presence and relevance of recording devices into an analytic topic, and explor…
Children, Technology, and Culture
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
In contrast to recent sociological emphases on the social shaping of technology, this article proposes and illustrates a way of analysing the technological shaping of sociality. Drawing on the concept of affordances (Gibson 1979), the article argues for a recognition of the constraining, as well as enabling, materiality of artefacts. The argument is set in the theoretical context of one of the most recent and comprehensive statements of anti-esse…
Confrontation Talk
Using conversation analysis to explore the nature of argument, asymmetry, and power on talk radio, this book focuses on the interplay between the structures of talk in interaction and the structures of participation on talk radio. In the process, it demonstrates how conversation analysis may be used to account for power as a feature of institutional discourse. To address a number of key issues in the study of institutional communication and confl…
Power in Discourse
This article presents an approach to exploring the ways in which power functions in institutional discourse. The principal aim of the article is to show how the play of power in discourse can be analysed from the fundamentally local, sequential perspective of conversation analysis. I argue that power is best seen as a shifting distribution of resources which enable some participants locally to achieve interactional effects not available to others…
Active Listening
This article presents an analysis of the talk of child counsellors in interaction with young children (4-12 years). The data consist of recordings of counselling sessions offered to children whose parents are in the process of separation or divorce. The ostensible aim of the service was to provide normalizing interventions rather than dealing with clinical referrals. The focus of the article is on the practice of what is known in counselling psyc…
Communicative affordances and participation frameworks in mediated interaction
From Ethics to Analytics
In discussions of sociological research based on the recording of interactional occasions, participants' awareness of the presence of recording devices is often deemed to have a detrimental effect on the 'authenticity' or 'naturalness' of the data collected. We propose an alternative approach to this issue by seeking to turn participants' observable orientations to the presence and relevance of recording devices into an analytic topic, and explor…
Resisting the incitement to talk in child counselling
Data from naturally occurring child counselling sessions are used to explore how counsellors seek to elicit therapeutically relevant talk in the face of resistance, or non-cooperation, from children. Focusing on a case in which a 6-year-old child persistently avoids collaborating in the kind of counselling talk that the counsellor is evidently aiming to produce, the analysis focuses both on the child's resistance strategies and on the counsellor'…
Aspects of recipient design in expert advice‐giving on call‐in radio
This article analyzes the management of expertise in advice‐giving in a public context: calls to a radio advice line. Instead of being a two‐way dialogue between advice‐seeker and advice‐giver, advice talk on call‐in radio has a more complex communicative framework in which four parties are involved: the caller (advice‐seeker), the expert (advice‐giver), the studio host (professional broadcaster), and the overhearing audience. This article analyz…
Frame attunement and footing in the organisation of talk radio openings
Conversation analysts have argued that institutions do not define the kind of talk produced within them; rather participants' ways of designing their talk actually constructs the 'institutionality' of such settings. Previous research has focused mainly on sequential considerations. This article extends that research by drawing on Goffmanian ideas of frame attunement and footing. Focusing on opening sequences on a talk radio show, I trace the incr…
Oh', Irony and Sequential Ambiguity in Arguments
This article is concerned with the production of argumentative talk. Attention is focused on a particular device for `being argumentative', in which a turn is constructed using the marker `Oh' followed by a hearably ironical proposition. Analysis uncovers the structural aspects that contribute to that device's hearability as argumentative, and goes on to consider how an utterance deploying the device comes to be produced in terms of its surroundi…
Affordances and the Analysis of Technologically Mediated Interaction
Participants' orientations to interruptions, rudeness and other impolite acts in talk-in-interaction
This paper demonstrates how impoliteness is viewed from the perspective of conversation analysis. Offering an alternative to sociolinguistic policies of establishing the linguistic features that characterize impolite speech acts, it explores the ways that members themselves orient to actions in interaction as impolite, i.e., “rude” and/or “insulting”. The analysis draws on data from a range of settings including ordinary conversation, small claim…
Witnessing
Radio phone-ins, or `talk radio' shows, represent a popular environment in which members of the public at large may discuss the news of the day from their own perspective. This article explores some discursive devices that are used in legitimating, or authenticating, lay speakers' opinions about news in this environment. A number of examples of calls to a talk radio show are examined in order to show the oriented-to importance of `witnessing' (br…
Children's talk and social competence
This article reviews research on the organisation of children's talk. It outlines the range of disciplinary concerns that contribute to the study of children's talk, and focuses on a range of work which foregrounds linkages between children's talk, social interaction and wider social processes. Paying particular attention to studies in conversation analysis, the emphasis is on how talk in peer-group and in child-adult interaction contributes to v…
Aspects of the sequential organization of mobile phone conversation
This article presents an investigation of the organization and structures of talk-in-interaction over mobile phone. The analysis is based upon naturally occurring data consisting of a corpus of calls recorded during everyday activities of a young adult. Using these data we reveal a range of sequential phenomena associated with mobile phone usage. Established conversation analytic work on landline telephone conversation is used in order to build a…
Children’s participation and the familial moral order in family therapy
This article examines discourse practices surrounding children’s participation, non-participation, and the ‘moral order’ of the family in the setting of family therapy consultations. The analysis focuses on two central issues. First, the relationship between therapists’ questions, the speaker selection techniques built into those questions, and the responses produced by family members. Second, the relationship between turn-taking and the linguist…
Beyond Agnosticism
(1999). Beyond Agnosticism?: Conversation Analysis and the Sociological Agenda. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 32, No. 1-2, pp. 85-93
Hybridisation, personalisation and tribuneship in the political interview
This article discusses elements of hybridisation in political interviewing within the contemporary environment of broadcast news. Beginning from a conversation analytic perspective, four types of political interview programmes are described in terms of their different approaches to questions and answers; opinions and arguments; and neutrality, agency and advocacy. The analysis then turns to the different ways in which ‘tribuneship’ is manifested …
The Pursuit of Controversy
Resources for arguing are examined in talk on 'talk radio', a cultural setting for which disputation is a routine activity. A contrastive device built to the format you say X, but what about Y is shown to be an important, recursively deployed linguistic resource for the accomplishment of such routine disputation. Aspects of the interactional work achieved with this device are discussed in relation to the setting-specific activity of 'arguing for …
Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview
This article explores the nature of argumentative interaction in the hybrid political interview: a broadcast news genre whose discourse positions the journalist not just as investigator but as socio-political advocate. Such interviews offer explicit challenges to the traditionally conceived ‘neutral’ role of the broadcast news journalist. Interviewer ‘non-neutrality’ is examined in contexts where the speech exchange system shifts into the unmitig…
Rhetorical Strategies in Audience Participation Debates on Radio and TV
(1999). Rhetorical Strategies in Audience Participation Debates on Radio and TV. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 243-267
Ethics in praxis
The use of video for research purposes is something that has attracted ethical attention and debate. While the usefulness of video as a mechanism to collect data is widely agreed, the ethical sensitivity and impact of recording equipment is more contentious. In some clinical settings the presence of a camera has a dual role, as a portal to a reflecting team and as a recording device to obtain research data. Using data from one such setting, famil…
Methodology Needs Analytics
Performed retelling
So my position is
This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, …
Conflict Talk
List of contributors Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Allen D. Grimshaw Part II. The Studies: Learning to Argue: 2. Disputes in the peer culture of American and Italian nursery-school children William A. Corsaro and Thomas A. Rizzo 3. Serious and playful disputes: variation in conflict talk among female adolescents Donna Eder 4. Interstitial argument Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 5. The sequential organisation of closi…
The Pursuit of Controversy
Resources for arguing are examined in talk on 'talk radio', a cultural setting for which disputation is a routine activity. A contrastive device built to the format you say X, but what about Y is shown to be an important, recursively deployed linguistic resource for the accomplishment of such routine disputation. Aspects of the interactional work achieved with this device are discussed in relation to the setting-specific activity of 'arguing for …
Aspects of recipient design in expert advice‐giving on call‐in radio
This article analyzes the management of expertise in advice‐giving in a public context: calls to a radio advice line. Instead of being a two‐way dialogue between advice‐seeker and advice‐giver, advice talk on call‐in radio has a more complex communicative framework in which four parties are involved: the caller (advice‐seeker), the expert (advice‐giver), the studio host (professional broadcaster), and the overhearing audience. This article analyz…
Power in Discourse
This article presents an approach to exploring the ways in which power functions in institutional discourse. The principal aim of the article is to show how the play of power in discourse can be analysed from the fundamentally local, sequential perspective of conversation analysis. I argue that power is best seen as a shifting distribution of resources which enable some participants locally to achieve interactional effects not available to others…
Where is the Discourse? A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson
Beyond Agnosticism
Beyond Agnosticism
(1999). Beyond Agnosticism?: Conversation Analysis and the Sociological Agenda. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 32, No. 1-2, pp. 85-93
Rhetorical Strategies in Audience Participation Debates on Radio and TV
(1999). Rhetorical Strategies in Audience Participation Debates on Radio and TV. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 243-267
Frame attunement and footing in the organisation of talk radio openings
Conversation analysts have argued that institutions do not define the kind of talk produced within them; rather participants' ways of designing their talk actually constructs the 'institutionality' of such settings. Previous research has focused mainly on sequential considerations. This article extends that research by drawing on Goffmanian ideas of frame attunement and footing. Focusing on opening sequences on a talk radio show, I trace the incr…
Oh', Irony and Sequential Ambiguity in Arguments
This article is concerned with the production of argumentative talk. Attention is focused on a particular device for `being argumentative', in which a turn is constructed using the marker `Oh' followed by a hearably ironical proposition. Analysis uncovers the structural aspects that contribute to that device's hearability as argumentative, and goes on to consider how an utterance deploying the device comes to be produced in terms of its surroundi…
Witnessing
Radio phone-ins, or `talk radio' shows, represent a popular environment in which members of the public at large may discuss the news of the day from their own perspective. This article explores some discursive devices that are used in legitimating, or authenticating, lay speakers' opinions about news in this environment. A number of examples of calls to a talk radio show are examined in order to show the oriented-to importance of `witnessing' (br…
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
In contrast to recent sociological emphases on the social shaping of technology, this article proposes and illustrates a way of analysing the technological shaping of sociality. Drawing on the concept of affordances (Gibson 1979), the article argues for a recognition of the constraining, as well as enabling, materiality of artefacts. The argument is set in the theoretical context of one of the most recent and comprehensive statements of anti-esse…
Children, Technology, and Culture
Resisting the incitement to talk in child counselling
Data from naturally occurring child counselling sessions are used to explore how counsellors seek to elicit therapeutically relevant talk in the face of resistance, or non-cooperation, from children. Focusing on a case in which a 6-year-old child persistently avoids collaborating in the kind of counselling talk that the counsellor is evidently aiming to produce, the analysis focuses both on the child's resistance strategies and on the counsellor'…
Affordances and the Analysis of Technologically Mediated Interaction
Methodology Needs Analytics
From Ethics to Analytics
In discussions of sociological research based on the recording of interactional occasions, participants' awareness of the presence of recording devices is often deemed to have a detrimental effect on the 'authenticity' or 'naturalness' of the data collected. We propose an alternative approach to this issue by seeking to turn participants' observable orientations to the presence and relevance of recording devices into an analytic topic, and explor…
Children's talk and social competence
This article reviews research on the organisation of children's talk. It outlines the range of disciplinary concerns that contribute to the study of children's talk, and focuses on a range of work which foregrounds linkages between children's talk, social interaction and wider social processes. Paying particular attention to studies in conversation analysis, the emphasis is on how talk in peer-group and in child-adult interaction contributes to v…
Incommensurable’ studies of mobile phone conversation
Arminen(2005) claimsthattworecentstudiesof mobilephone conversation (Hutchby and Barnett, 2005 and Arminen and Leinonen, forthcoming) come up with incommensurate findings. He relates this to two distinct approaches to the methodology of conversation analysis. In this reply I show that the two studies in question are not incommensurate and argue that Arminen's account is based on a partial description of the findings in Hutchby and Barnett (2005).…
Active Listening
This article presents an analysis of the talk of child counsellors in interaction with young children (4-12 years). The data consist of recordings of counselling sessions offered to children whose parents are in the process of separation or divorce. The ostensible aim of the service was to provide normalizing interventions rather than dealing with clinical referrals. The focus of the article is on the practice of what is known in counselling psyc…
Aspects of the sequential organization of mobile phone conversation
This article presents an investigation of the organization and structures of talk-in-interaction over mobile phone. The analysis is based upon naturally occurring data consisting of a corpus of calls recorded during everyday activities of a young adult. Using these data we reveal a range of sequential phenomena associated with mobile phone usage. Established conversation analytic work on landline telephone conversation is used in order to build a…
Participants' orientations to interruptions, rudeness and other impolite acts in talk-in-interaction
This paper demonstrates how impoliteness is viewed from the perspective of conversation analysis. Offering an alternative to sociolinguistic policies of establishing the linguistic features that characterize impolite speech acts, it explores the ways that members themselves orient to actions in interaction as impolite, i.e., “rude” and/or “insulting”. The analysis draws on data from a range of settings including ordinary conversation, small claim…
Children’s participation and the familial moral order in family therapy
This article examines discourse practices surrounding children’s participation, non-participation, and the ‘moral order’ of the family in the setting of family therapy consultations. The analysis focuses on two central issues. First, the relationship between therapists’ questions, the speaker selection techniques built into those questions, and the responses produced by family members. Second, the relationship between turn-taking and the linguist…
Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview
This article explores the nature of argumentative interaction in the hybrid political interview: a broadcast news genre whose discourse positions the journalist not just as investigator but as socio-political advocate. Such interviews offer explicit challenges to the traditionally conceived ‘neutral’ role of the broadcast news journalist. Interviewer ‘non-neutrality’ is examined in contexts where the speech exchange system shifts into the unmitig…
Ethics in praxis
The use of video for research purposes is something that has attracted ethical attention and debate. While the usefulness of video as a mechanism to collect data is widely agreed, the ethical sensitivity and impact of recording equipment is more contentious. In some clinical settings the presence of a camera has a dual role, as a portal to a reflecting team and as a recording device to obtain research data. Using data from one such setting, famil…
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