Charles Goodwin
Embedded Context
Charles Goodwin is Professor of Applied Linguistics at UCLA. His interests include video analysis of talk-in-interaction, grammar in context, gesture, gaze and embodiment as interactively organized social practices, aphasia in discourse, cognition in the workplace (he spent two years analyzing discourse and cognition in the workplace at Xerox PARC), courtroom discourse, language in the professions, and the ethnography of science (including fieldwork at archaeological excavations, chemistry labs, and on an oceanographic ship in the mouth of the Amazon).
Embedded Context investigates how recipients as well as speakers attend to the simultaneous presence of multiple scenes in their talk. To describe one scene a speaker can make use of materials imported from a second. Among the phenomena to be examined are 1) Local Metrics in which features of the current scene are used to describe a narrated one and 2) Unmarked Quotation in which talk from another scene is used to make coherent moves within the current line of talk. Both of these practices create the possibility for a variety of recipient operations such that the telling becomes a process of collaboration in which hearers are very active coparticipants.
Please go to http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/ for publications, current projects, and more.
