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Research on Language & Social Interaction
Volume 40(1), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Edwards, Derek, and Stokoe, Elizabeth Self-help in calls for help with problem neighbors 9-32
 
  In telephone calls to United Kingdom mediation centers for disputing neighbors, participants deal with clients' prior efforts at resolving the problem 
 
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Europe
interpersonal
conflict
 
 
Raymond, Geoffrey, and Zimmerman, Don H. Rights and responsibilities in calls for help: The case of the Mountain Glade fire 33-61
 
  In this article, we examine a corpus of calls occasioned by a single event, the 1990 Mountain Glade Fire in a coastal community on the Pacific Coast, to consider (a) how the distribution of rights and responsibilities are displayed in the talk of callers to the emergency phone line (9-1-1) and call takers (CTs) who receive them and (b) how these are linked to the directionality and action trajectory of such calls 
 
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conversation
organizational
interpersonal
 
 
Emmison, Michael, and Danby, Susan Troubles announcements and reasons for calling: Initial actions in opening sequences in calls to a national children's helpline 63-87
 
  Calls to emergency assistance providers, and helplines more generally, have typically been analyzed from the assumption that for both caller and call taker, the primary orientation is the reason for the call 
 
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children
Pacific Rim
interpersonal
conversation
 
 
Hepburn, Alexa, and Potter, Jonathan Crying receipts: Time, empathy, and institutional practice 89-116
 
  In this article, we focus on the activities done by the recipients of crying 
 
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conversation
emotion
conflict
interpersonal
 
 
Shaw, Rebecca, and Kitzinger, Celia Memory in interaction: An analysis of repeat calls to a home birth helpline 117-144
 
  Drawing on a corpus of 80 calls to a Home Birth helpline, we use conversation analysis to analyze how callers and call takers display to one another that they are talking for a second or subsequent time 
 
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cognition
conversation
interpersonal