Amy Sheldon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amy Sheldon is involved.
2015 Chapter 8. “Thank you for heckling me”: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s discursive management of her public persona, her political message and the “Iron my shirt!” hecklers in the 2008 presidential election campaign Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 195–216 | Article
This chapter analyses an exchange where hecklers interrupt Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) at a 2008 U. S. Presidential campaign town hall meeting. Analysis of video records describes HRC’s impromptu, embodied rhetorical response that repositions the disruptors onto the discursive margin and upholds… read more
2014 “I needa cut up my soup”: Food talk, pretend play, and gender in an American preschool Language and Food: Verbal and nonverbal experiences, Szatrowski, Polly E. (ed.), pp. 257–278 | Article
American English-speaking preschoolers reinscribe implicit understandings of gender prescriptions in their food-related talk and pretend play. Girls discussed and coordinated complex, sequenced meal preparation, sometimes explicitly as mother or child. Boys’ food-as-comestible play was shorter and… read more
2005 Two systems of mutual engagement: The co-construction of gendered narrative styles by American preschoolers The Sociolinguistics of Narrative, Thornborrow, Joanna and Jennifer Coates (eds.), pp. 171–192 | Article
1993 Saying it with a smile Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language, Eid, Mushira and Gregory Iverson (eds.), pp. 215–232 | Article