Gene H. Lerner
On the Place of Linguistic Resources in the Organization of Talk-in-Interaction: Grammar as Action in Prompting a Speaker to Elaborate
Gene H. Lerner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Linguistics at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. He has written on the collaborative production and social organization of linguistic forms such as sentences and narratives. In addition to this work on speaker turn construction, he has added a line of work on speaker selection practices and the ways such practices form a local normative environment for culturally recognizable actions. In the present report, he offers a social-interactional re-specification of several basic "parts of speech" of (at least) English grammar -- describing their use in ways not foreseen by standard linguistic analysis.
