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1. Contact Information
2. Current Research
3. Current Courses
4. Books and Edited Volumes
5. Journal Articles
6. Book Chapters
7. Papers in Conference Proceedings
8. Contributions to Reference Works
9. Book Reviews
10. Other Academic Writing
11. Work in Progress
12. Other Writings
Contact Information
Jack Sidnell
Associate
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jsidnell/
E-mail: jack.sidnell@utoronto.ca
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Current Research
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Other-initiated repair in the talk of children aged 4-8. [Project Description]
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Other-initiated repair across differences of language, culture and context. [Information]
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Pretend play and INtersubjectivity among five year old children.
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Inquiry Testimony (in collaboration with Sue Ehrlich)
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Current Courses
Winter 2004
- Anthropology 206: Culture and Communication: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology [Link]
- Anthropology 425: Language in Anthropological Thought (St. George) [Link]
- CCT 307: Language, Interaction and Society [Link]
Fall 2004
- Anthropology 102: Introduction to Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology [Link]
- Anthropology 432: Language in Anthropological Thought [Link]
- Anthropology 5144: Talk and Social Action [Link]
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Books and Edited Volumes
- 2005
Talk and Practical Epistemology: The Social Life of Knowledge in a Caribbean Community. (Pragmatics and Beyond, New Series, 142) Benjamins. [Link]
- 2005 Special issue of Semiotica 156.1/4 on Multi-modal Interaction Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers guest editors. [Link]
- In prep. Conversation.
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Journal Articles
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Book Chapters
- In prep. ‘Spouse Talk’ Revisited. For E. Stokoe and S. Speer eds. Gender and Conversation.
- In prep. The design and positioning of questions in inquiry testimony. In Ehrlich and Freed eds. “Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse. Oxford University Press.
- In prep. Repairing person reference in a small Caribbean community: Generic organization,
local inflection. In T. Stivers & N.J. Enfield (Eds.) Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural, and Social Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
- In prep. Handbook of Pragmatics Online. Jef Verschueren & Jan-Ola Ostman Eds. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- IIn press Re-Enactments. In A. A. Iannucci and M. Danesi (eds.), The Semiotics of Writing. Madison: Atwood Press, 2005.
- In press Challenging presuppositions in inquiry testimony. (with Sue Ehrlich)
- 2005 Advice in an Indo-Guyanese village and the interactional organization of uncertainty. In B. Migge & Susanne Mühleisen eds. Politeness and Face in the Caribbean.
- 2003a Constructing and managing male exclusivity in talk-in-interaction. In J. Holmes and M. Meyerhoff eds. Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 327-352
- 2003b "Trying to Break it Down": MCs' Talk and Social Setting in Drum and Bass Performance. In M. Carroll and H. Berger eds. Global Pop, Local Language. The University of Mississippi Press. (with Morgan Gerard). 269-290.
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'Badboy/Badman': Gender, language variation and social categories in an Indo-Guyanese village. In Sarah Benor et. al. eds. Gendered Practices in Language. Stanford: CSLI publications.pp. 375-387.
- 1999 Deixis. Handbook of Pragmatics 1998. Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Ostman, Jan Blommeart, Chris Bulcaen. eds. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp 1-28
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Papers in Conference Proceedings
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Contributions to Reference Works
- Forth. Creole Languages of the Americas. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas.
- In press Conversation analytic appraches to culture. In the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier.
- 2005 Addressor-Addressee. In D. Herman et. al. eds. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Routledge.
- 2005 Communication in narrative. In D. Herman et. al. eds. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Routledge.
- 2003a Elinor Ochs. In Vered Amit ed. Biographical Dictionary of Social Anthropology. Routledge.
- 2003b Esther Goody. In Vered Amit ed. Biographical Dictionary of Social Anthropology. Routledge.
- 2000c Michael Silverstein. In Vered Amit ed. Biographical Dictionary of Social Anthropology. Routledge.
- 2000 Competence. In Duranti ed. Key Terms in Language in Culture, Blackwell, 2000. Translated and reprinted in Culture e Discorso. Un lessico per le scienze sociali. Roma: Meltemi, 2001.
- 1999 Competence. In Language Matters in Anthropology: A Lexicon for the Millennium. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (9:1&2). [1200 words]
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Book Reviews
- forth. Review of Lerner, Gene (2004) Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation. Language in Society.
- 2004 Review of Ehrlich, Sue (2000) Representing Rape. Language in Society 33(3)
- 2002 Review of McWhorter, John H. (2000). The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12(2): 17-19 [Link]
- 2000 Review of Payne, Tom (1997) Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists. Cambridge University Press. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10(2)
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Review of Duranti (1998) Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge University Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5(1): 113-114.
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Other Academic Writing
- 2003 Curriculum for PBS documentary on the history of slavery. Writings on African Americann English appear in units on literature about the history of slavery. Website address: www.slaveryinamerica.org. Documentary to air spring of 2003
- 2000 "African American Vernacular English." At the Language Varieties Web Site.
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/aave.htm
- 1996 Commentary on Grammatical and Phonological Structures in AAVE. "Can't Teach a Dog to Be a Cat? The Dialogue on Ebonics." Anthropology Newsletter, Vol. 38. No.3.
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Work in Progress
- In prep. Turn-initial directives to 'look' and 'listen'.
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Other Writings
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