Talking Problems : Studies of Discursive Construction.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- SUNY Series in Communication Studies .
- SUNY Series in Communication Studies .
Intro -- Talking Problems -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Tellings in Talking Problems -- 1. Ascribing Problems and Positionings in Talking Student Teenage Parent -- 2. Clients' and Therapist's Joint Construction of the Clients' Problems -- 3. Therapeutic Humor in Retelling the Clients' Tellings -- Part II: Reportings in Talking Problems -- 4. Reported Speech in Talking Race on Campus -- 5. Demanding Respect: The Uses of Reported Speech in Discursive Constructions of Interracial Contact with Princess L. Williams -- 6. Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- References -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Presents a theory of discursive co-construction of problems, or how characters are portrayed in the telling of events.