Kevin A. Whitehead
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kevin A. Whitehead is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238
Articles
2026 When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known and presumed unknown Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Sacks and Schegloff (1979; Schegloff 1996) identify a preference for recognitional references to persons over non-recognitional forms of references. Furthermore, they identify as a subsidiary preference that, among recognitional forms, personal names are preferred over recognitional descriptors.… read more
2020 Extraordinary emergencies: Reproducing moral discourses of the child in institutional interaction Pragmatics and Society 11:1, pp. 45–69 | Article
This report uses audio recorded telephone calls and textual data from an emergency medical services call center to examine the interactional practices through which speakers produce what we call “extraordinary emergencies”, treating the events concerned as requiring moral, as well as medical,… read more
2011 Some uses of head nods in “third position” in talk-in-interaction Gesture 11:2, pp. 103–122 | Article
Previous research on the use of head nods in talk-in-interaction has demonstrated that they can be used for various interactional purposes by speakers and recipients in different sequential positions. In this report, I examine speakers’ uses of nods in “third position”, in the course of “minimal… read more