Accountability in Social Interaction

377 Pages·2016·4.511 MB·English

by  Jeffrey D. Robinson (Editor)

ACCOUNTABILITY IN SOCIAL INTERACTION
FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN INTERACTION
General Editor: N.J. Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Radboud University, Nijmegen, and the University of Sydney
This series promotes new interdisciplinary research on the elements of human
sociality, in particular as they relate to the activity and experience of commu-
nicative interaction and human relationships. Books in this series explore the
foundations of human interaction from a wide range of perspectives, using
multiple theoretical and methodological tools. A premise of the series is that
a proper understanding of human sociality is only possible if we take a truly
interdisciplinary approach.
Series Editorial Board:
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute Leipzig)
Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod Institute)
Elizabeth Couper- Kuhlen (University of Helsinki)
Paul Kockelman (University of Texas, Austin)
Sotaro Kita (University of Warwick)
Tanya Stivers (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)
Recently published in the series:
Agent, Person, Subject, Self The Instruction of Imagination
Paul Kockelman Daniel Dor
Exploring the Interactional Instinct How Traditions Live
Edited by Anna Dina L. Joaquin and Die
and John H. Schumann Olivier Morin
Relationship Thinking The Origins of Fairness
N.J. Enfield Nicolas Baumard
Talking About Troubles Requesting Responsibility
in Conversation Jörg Zinken
Gail Jefferson
Accountability in Social Interaction
Edited by Paul Drew, John Heritage,
Jeffrey D. Robinson
Gene Lerner, and Anita Pomerantz
ACCOUNTABILITY
IN SOCIAL
INTERACTION
Edited by
Jeffrey D. Robinson
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Names: Robinson, Jeffrey D., editor.
Title: Accountability in social interaction / edited by Jeffrey D. Robinson.
Description: New York: Oxford University Press, [2016]
|Series: Foundations of Human Interaction | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015040584 | ISBN 978–0–19–021055–7 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 978–0–19–021056–4 (ebook) | ISBN 978–0–19–021057–1 (online resource)
Subjects: LCSH: Oral communication. | Social interaction. | Public speaking. |
Responsibility. | Conversation analysis. | Speech acts (Linguistics)
Classification: LCC P95.A23 2016 | DDC 302.34—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040584
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CONTENTS
Series Editor’s Preface  vii
Contributors  ix
1. Accountability in Social Interaction—J effrey D. Robinson 1
SECTION 1: Accountability and Trouble
2. On Failure to Understand What the Other
Is Saying: Accountability, Incongruity, and
Miscommunication—P aul Drew & Claire Penn 47
3. Defending Solidarity: Self- Repair on Behalf of
Other- Attentiveness—D ouglas W. Maynard 73
4. Delicate Matters: Embedded Self- Correction as a Method
for Adjusting Possibly Available Inapposite
Hearings—J enny Mandelbaum 108
SECTION 2: Accountability, Stance, and Status
5. Political Positioning Sequences: The Nexus of Politicians, Issue
Positions, and the Sociopolitical Landscape—S teven E. Clayman 141
6. Epistemic Asymmetry and Accountability in Service
Interaction—S eung-H ee Lee 175
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7. Subjective Assessments: Managing Territories of Experience
in Conversation—K aoru Hayano 207
SECTION 3: The Accountability of Action
8. Increments— Emanuel A. Schegloff 239
9. The Accountability of Proposing (vs. Soliciting
Proposals of) Arrangements—J effrey D. Robinson &
Heidi Kevoe-F eldman 264
10. When Speakers Account for Their Questions: Ani- Prefaced
Accounts in Korean Conversation— Stephanie Hyeri Kim 294
11. The Omnirelevance of Accountability: Off- Record Account
Solicitations— Chase Wesley Raymond & Tanya Stivers 321
Index  355
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
Social accountability is arguably the single most important causal mechanism
in establishing the norms and conventions that define our social, cultural, and
linguistic worlds. Yet the concept of accountability is seldom foregrounded
in research on social and cultural life, and it plays little if any role at all in lin-
guistics. This book is a much- needed response, a concerted effort to explicate
and explore accountability and its role in the forms and uses of language and
other tools of social interaction. These essays build on the early breakthroughs
of micro- sociologists Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks, and are a fitting
tribute to the inimitable John Heritage, a pioneer in research on the nature of
accountability and its importance for human sociality.
N. J. E.
Sydney, January 2016

CONTRIBUTORS
Steven E. Clayman (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Santa
Barbara) is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Paul Drew (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK) is professor of
Conversation Analysis at Loughborough University, UK.
Kaoru Hayano (Ph.D., Linguistics, Radboud University, Nijmegen) is asso-
ciate professor in the Department of English at Japan Women's University.
Stephanie Hyeri Kim (Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of California
at Los Angeles) is assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics/ TESL
at California State University, Northridge.
Heidi Kevoe- Feldman (Ph.D., Communication, Rutgers University) is assistant
professor in the Department of Communication at Northeastern University.
Seung- Hee Lee (Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los
Angeles) is associate professor in the Department of English Language and
Literature at Yonsei University.
Jenny Mandelbaum (Ph.D., Communication, University of Texas, Austin) is
professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University.
Douglas W. Maynard (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa
Barbara) is Conway- Bascom Professor and Garfinkel Faculty Fellow in the
Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well
as Research Affiliate at the University of Wisconsin- Madison’s Center for
Demography of Health and Aging.
Claire Penn (Ph.D., Health Communication Research Unit, University
of the Witwatersrand) is professor and chair of the Department of Speech
Pathology and Audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.