Gene H. Lerner

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gene H. Lerner is involved.

Titles

Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff

Edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage

This collection offers a multifaceted view of the life, research and impact of Emanuel A. Schegloff, the co-originator, with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, of Conversation Analysis (or CA), and its leading contemporary authority. The first section introduces Schegloff’s life and work, and, using… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 273] 2017. vi, 359 pp.

Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation

Edited by Gene H. Lerner

This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 125] 2004. x, 300 pp.

Articles (7) | Order by:

Whitehead, Kevin A. and Gene H. Lerner 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

Lerner, Gene H. and Geoffrey Raymond 2017 On the practical re-intentionalization of body behavior: Action pivots in the progressive realization of embodied conduct Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, Raymond, Geoffrey, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage (eds.), pp. 299–314 | Chapter

Body behavior can be both observable and recognizable as realizing a particular action in interaction with others. In addition, participants have a range of ways to conspicuously adjust their actions to coordinate or synchronize their actions with others. For instance, there are methods to suspend… read more

Lerner, Gene H., Geoffrey Raymond and John Heritage 2017 Schegloff and the founding of a discovering discipline Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, Raymond, Geoffrey, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Raymond, Geoffrey and Gene H. Lerner 2014 A body and its involvements: Adjusting action for dual involvements Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, Haddington, Pentti, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile (eds.), pp. 227–246 | Article

This chapter investigates some of the ways participants use adjusting actions to produce a range of emergent relationships between distinct courses of action. It describes body-behaviourally realised practices for the management of two intersecting courses of action. We first show how the… read more

Lerner, Gene H. 2004 Collaborative turn sequences Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation, Lerner, Gene H. (ed.), pp. 225–256 | Article

Lerner, Gene H. 2004 Introductory remarks Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation, Lerner, Gene H. (ed.), pp. 1–11 | Miscellaneous

Lerner, Gene H. 1996 On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction: ‘Second person’ reference in multi-party conversation Interaction-based studies of language, Ford, Cecilia E. and Johannes Wagner (eds.), pp. 281–294 | Article