Bibliography on Agreement and Disagreement
Collected by Isabella Poggi (Universita’ di Roma Tre), Francesca D’Errico (Universita’ di
Roma Tre), and Alessandro Vinciarelli (Idiap Research Institute).
1. Bilmes, J., 1988. The concept of preference in conversation analysis. Language in
Society 17, 161–181.
2. Goodwin, Marjorie Harness, Goodwin, Charles, Yaeger-Dror, Malcah, 2002. Multimodality in girls’ game disputes. Journal of Pragmatics 34, 1621–1649.
3. Heritage, John, Raymond, Geoffrey, 2005. The terms of agreement: indexing epistemic
authority and subordination in assessment sequences. Social Psychology Quarterly 68,
15–38.
4. Heritage, John C., 2002a. Oh-prefaced responses to assessments. In: Ford, Cecilia E.,
Fox, Barbara A., Thompson, Sandra A. (Eds.), The Language of Turn and Sequence.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 196–224.
5. Heritage, John C., 2002b. The limits of questioning: negative interrogatives and hostile
question content. Journal of Pragmatics 34, 1427–1446.
6. Pomerantz, A., 1984. Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of
preferred/dipreferred turn shapes. In: Atkinson, J. Maxwell, Heritage, John (Eds.),
Structures of Social Action. Studies in conversational analysis. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, pp. 57–101.
7. Raymond, Geoffrey, 2000. The structure of responding: conforming and nonconforming
responses to yes/no type interrogatives, Unpublished PhD thesis. University of
California, Los Angeles.
8. Raymond, Geoffrey, 2003. Grammar and social organization: yes/no interrogatives and
the structure of responding. American Sociological Review 939–966.
9. Sacks, Harvey, 1986. On the preferences for agreement and contiguity in sequences in
conversation. In: Button, Graham, Lee, J.R.E. (Eds.), Talk and Social Organization.
Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp. 54–69.
10. Drew, Paul. 1991. "Asymmetries of Knowledge in Conversational Interactions." Pp. 2948 in Asymmetries in Dialogue, edited by Ivana Markova and Klaus Foppa. Hemel
Hempstead UK: Harvester.
11. Heritage, John. 1998. "Oh-Prefaced Responses to Inquiry. Language in Society
27:291-334.
12. __2002a. "Oh-Prefaced Responses to Assessments: A Method of Modifying
Agreement/Disagreement." Pp. 196-224 in The Language of Turn and Sequence,
edited by Cecilia Ford, Barbara Fox and Sandra Thompson. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press.
13. Holtgraves, Thomas. 1992. "Linguistic Realization of Face Management: Implications
for Language Production and Comprehension, Person Perception, and Cross-Cultural
Communication." Social Psychology Quarterly 55:141-59.
14. Jefferson, Gail. 2002. "Is 'No' an Acknowledgment Token? Comparing American and
British Uses of (+)/(-) Tokens." Journal of Pragmatics 34:1345-83.
15. Kollock, Peter, Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz. 1985. "Sex and Power in
Interaction: Conversational Privileges and Duties. American Sociological Review 50:2446.
16. Lerner, Gene. 1996. "'Finding Face' in the Preference Structures of Talk-inInteraction." Social Psychology Quarterly 59:303-21.
17. Maynard, Douglas W. and Don Zimmerman. 1984. "Topical Talk, Ritual, and the Social
Organization of Relationships." Social Psychology Quarterly 47:301-16.
18. O'Barr, William N. and Bowman K. Atkins. 1980. "'Women's Langauge' or 'Powerless
Language.'" Pp. 93-110 in Women and Language in Literature and Society, edited by
Sally McConnell-Ginet, Ruth Borker, and Nelly Furman. New York: Praeger.
19. Pomerantz, Anita. 1978. "Compliment Responses: Notes on the Co-Operation of
Multiple Constraints." Pp. 79-112 in Studies in the Organization of Conversational
Interaction, edited by Jim Schenkein. New York: Academic Press.
20. Pomerantz, Anita. 1984. "Agreeing and Disagreeing With Assessments: Some
Features of Preferred/Dispreferred Turn Shapes." Pp. 57-101 in Structures of Social
Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis, edited by J. Maxwell Atkinson and John
Heritage. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
21. Raymond, Geoffrey. 2000. "The Voice of Authority: The Local Accomplishment of
Authoritative Discourse in Live News Broadcasts." Discourse Studies 2:354-79. .
22. __2003. "Grammar and Social Organization: Yes/No Type Interrogatives and the
Structure of Responding." American Sociological Review, 68:939-67.
23. ___ 2004. "Prompting Action: The Stand- Alone "So" in Ordinary Conversation."
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37:185-218.
24. Roth, Andrew. 2002. "Social Epistemology in Broadcast News Interviews. Language in
Society 31:355-81.
25. Sacks, Harvey. 1984. "On Doing 'Being Ordinary."' Pp. 413-29 in Structures of Social
Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis, edited by J. Maxwell Atkinson and John
Heritage. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. .
26. __1987. "On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in
Conversation." Pp. 54-69 in Talk and Social Organisation, edited by Graham Button
and John R. E. Lee. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
27. Schegloff, Emanuel A. 1988. "On an Actual Virtual Servo-Mechanism for Guessing Bad
News: A Single Case Conjecture." Social Problems 35:442-57. .
28. __1992. "Repair After Next Turn: The Last Structurally Provided for Place for the
Defense of Intersubjectivity in Conversation." American Journal of Sociology 95:12951345. .
29. __ 1996a. "Confirming Allusions: Toward an Empirical Account of Action." American
Journal of Sociology 104:161-216. .
30. __1996b. "Turn Organization: One Intersection of Grammar and Interaction." Pp. 52133 in Interaction and Grammar, edit- ed by Elinor Ochs, Sandra Thompson and
Emanuel Schegloff. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ..
31. __Forthcoming. A Primer of Conversation Analysis: Sequence Organization.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
32. Schegloff, Emanuel A., Gail Jefferson, and Harvey Sacks. 1977. "The Preference for
Self- Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation." Language 53:361-82.
33. Stivers, Tanya. Forthcoming. "Modified Repeats and Claiming Authority from Second
Position." Research on Language and Social Interaction.
34. Journal Of Pragmatics, Special Issue Volume:34,Issue:10-11, October - November,
2002