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Research on Language & Social Interaction

Volume 42(3), 2009


CONTENTS

Schely-Newman, Esther	Defining success, defending failure: Functions of reported talk	191-209

	This article analyzes the functions of reported talk in interviews conducted with women who participated in a national adult literacy campaign

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Scarpetta, Fabiola, and Spagnolli, Anna	The interactional context of humor in stand-up comedy	210-230

	Four shows, performed by African American stand-up comedians in Los Angeles in front of Black audiences and White audiences, were examined

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Nielsen, Soren Beck	Accounts on the behalf of patients during geriatric case conferences	231-248

	The analysis of actors' accounts for their actions can reveal actors' understandings of local situations and of social standards

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D'hondt, Sigurd	Good cops, bad cops: Intertextuality, agency, and structure in criminal trial discourse	249-275

	This article investigates how the institutionality of interaction is discursively accounted for in a judicial setting, a Belgian first-instance criminal case in which four defendants are accused of verbal assault on a police officer and resisting arrest

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Noordegraaf, Martine, van Nijnatten, Carolus, and Elbers, Ed	How social workers start to assess the suitability of prospective adoptive parents	276-298

	This article takes a close look at the openings of 12 different Dutch adoption assessment sessions

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