Rod Gardner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rod Gardner is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2666-4224 | E‑ISSN 2666‑4232
Titles
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door
Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance
Rod Gardner
Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 92] 2001. xxi, 289 pp.
Spoken Interaction Studies in Australia
Edited by Rod Gardner
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 11] 1994. vi, 191 pp.
2021 Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations Gesture 20:3, pp. 417–452 | Article
It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference being dominant in these languages; and that the… read more
2007 Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa Community Language as Action, Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short (eds.), pp. 35.1–35.14 | Article
Overlap in conversation is a well-established area of conversation analysis research (e.g. Jefferson 1983; Schegloff 2000) which can reveal how participants orient to transition relevance places. This paper presents an analysis of overlap in the mixed (Garrwa, Kriol and English) language… read more
2000 Resources for delicate manoeuvres: Learning to disagree Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching, Alcón-Soler, Eva and Josep R. Guzman Pitarch (eds.), pp. 31–47 | Article
1994 Conversation analysis: Some thoughts on its applicability to applied linguistics Spoken Interaction Studies in Australia, Gardner, Rod (ed.), pp. 97–118 | Article
The first part of this paper presents the view that ordinary conversation is the most basic form of talk, and that Conversation Analysis (CA) in the ethnomethodological tradition, whilst widely known in Australian applied linguistics, has been very little used here as a set of research tools. The… read more
1994 Foreword Spoken Interaction Studies in Australia, Gardner, Rod (ed.), pp. v–vi | Editorial