Alan Zemel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan Zemel is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 1.2. Affect in interaction: Working out expectancies and responsibility in a phone call How Emotions Are Made in Talk, Robles, Jessica S. and Ann Weatherall (eds.), pp. 51–76 | Chapter
Affect refers to the public display of emotions and feelings. Affect displays occur in various ways, including response cries (Goffman 1978, 1981), laughter/crying, lexical choice, vocal intonation and prosody, timing and embodied actions performed in the production of utterances and other… read more
2014 Instructed objects Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 357–378 | Article
This chapter develops an ethnomethodologically-informed view regarding the sociality of objects, building upon Garfinkel’s various descriptions of object constitution. We examine a particular case of diagnostic reasoning produced in the course of carrying out a surgical procedure at a teaching… read more
2007 Formulating the Triangle of Doom Gesture 7:1, pp. 97–118 | Article
Considerable attention has been paid in the CA literature to the glossing practices through which participants in conversation formulate who they are, what they are talking about, where the things they are talking about are located, and so forth. There are, of course, gestural glossing practices as… read more


