Richard Buttny
Richard Buttny is a Professor of Speech Communication
at Syracuse University. His publications include Talking problems: Studies
in the social accountability of teen parenthood, therapy, and interracial
contact (State University of New York Press, in press), Social accountability
in communication (Sage Publications, 1993), “Demanding respect:
The uses of reported speech in discursive constructions of interracial contact”
(co-authored with Princess L. Williams) Discourse & Society 2000, “Accounting” (co-authored
with G.H. Morris) in W.P.Robinson
& H.Giles (Eds.), The new handbook on language and social psychology (John
Wiley & Sons, 2001), “Reported speech in talking race on campus” Human
Communication Research (1997), “Clients' and therapist's joint
construction of the clients' problems” Research on Language and
Social Interaction 1996. Scholarly interests: accounts and social accountability,
reported speech, talk in institutional settings, discursive constructions
of race matters, environmental communication.
Key words:
Accounts and social accountability, reported speech, therapy
talk, discursive constructions of race matters.
