Maurice Nevile

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maurice Nevile is involved.

Titles

Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking

Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more

[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.

Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity

Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more

[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.

Language as Action

Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 (2007) 108 pp. | open access

Haddington, Pentti, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile 2014 Towards multiactivity as a social and interactional phenomenon Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, Haddington, Pentti, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile (eds.), pp. 3–32 | Article

Multiactivity – the different ways in which two or more activities can be intertwined and made co-relevant in social interaction – is an inseparable element of everyday life. At the same time it is a little understood form of human conduct. This introductory chapter builds on the basis that… read more

Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa 2014 On the interactional ecology of objects Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Article

The empirical studies of this book examine how objects feature in the momentto-moment conduct of social interaction and activity. The studies draw on naturally occurring data, video recordings of people interacting with one another as they engage with objects for a wide range of purposes, across… read more

Nevile, Maurice 2013 Collaboration in crisis: Pursuing perception through multiple descriptions (how friendly vehicles became damn rocket launchers) Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives, De Rycker, Antoon and Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), pp. 159–183 | Article

Nevile, Maurice 2010 Looking for action: Talk and gaze home position in the airline cockpit Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:1, pp. 3.1–3.21 | Article

This paper considers the embodied nature of discourse for a professional work setting. It examines language in interaction in the airline cockpit, and specifically how shifts in pilots’ eye gaze direction can indicate the action of talk, that is, what talk is doing and its relative contribution to… read more

Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short 2007 Language as action Language as Action, Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short (eds.), pp. 30.1–30.13 | Miscellaneous

Nevile, Maurice 2005 ‘Checklist complete’. or is it? closing a task in the airline cockpit Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 28:2, pp. 60–76 | Article

For airline pilots, the call of ‘checklist complete’ is officially prescribed talk to claim that the crew’s joint conduct of a checklist is over, and the task can be understood as closed. However, very often this call is not the final talk for the task. This paper1 uses naturally occurring data,… read more

Nevile, Maurice 2002 Coordinating talk and non-talk activity in the airline cockpit Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:1, pp. 131–146 | Article

This paper draws on insights and practices of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to explore routine talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit; that is, the place of pilots’ talk as they establish what is going on around them, what they are doing, who is doing what, when they have… read more

Buckingham, Joanna and Maurice Nevile 1997 A model of citation options Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:2, pp. 51–66 | Article

The practice of citation is indicative of academic discourse. Over the last two decades, a number of papers have explored the language of citation, some directly motivated by concern about poor citation practices among student writers. This emerging interest has given us detailed understanding of… read more