Rod Watson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rod Watson is involved.

Titles

Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 103] 2019. v, 177 pp. | open access

Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

Special issue of Pragmatics 27:3 (2017) v, 174 pp. | open access

Articles (13) | Order by:

Watson, Rod 2022 Symbolic interactionism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1355–1363 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe 2019 Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Jill Palzkill Woelfer 2019 The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 147–174 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Sean Rintel, Rod Watson and Kenton O’Hara 2019 The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’ Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 19–49 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe 2017 Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality: A special issue of Pragmatics Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 301–318 | Introduction

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Jill Palzkill Woelfer 2017 The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 447–474 | Article

Digital technologies are likely to be appropriated by the homeless just as they are by other segments of society. However, these appropriations will reflect the particularities of their circumstances. What are these appropriations? Are they beneficial or effective? Can Skype, as a case in point,… read more

Harper, Richard, Sean Rintel, Rod Watson and Kenton O’Hara 2017 The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’ Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 319–350 | Article

This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and how this interaction invokes an implied order of behaviour that is treated as ‘typical’ and ‘accountably representative’ of video communication. This invoked order will be called an… read more

Watson, Rod 2016 Harold Garfinkel and Pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 2016 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Chapter

Watson, Rod 2010 Symbolic interactionism Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 304–314 | Article

Watson, Rod 2009 Harvey Sacks The Pragmatics of Interaction, D’hondt, Sigurd, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 206–214 | Article

Watson, Rod 2005 Harvey Sacks Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Watson, Rod 1995 Symbolic interactionism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 520–527 | Article

Crookall, David and Rod Watson 1985 Some applied and theoretical perspectives on a jigsaw reading exercise ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 69, pp. 43–78 | Article

This paper might have been subtitled : "prolegomenon to an exploration of meaning interpretation in the textuallymediated, activity-oriented, L2 jigsaw paradigm". An original jigsaw reading activity for foreign language learners is described; the exercise is made up from young people's L1 books.… read more