Charles Goodwin
Charles Goodwin is Professor of Applied Linguistics at UCLA. Publications include Conversational Organization: Interaction Between Speakers and Hearers (New York: Academic Press, 1977), Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (edited with Alessandro Duranti, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), Conversation and Brain Damage (editor, Oxford University Press 2002) ‘Professional Vision’ American Anthropologist 1994, ‘Co-constructing Meaning in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia’ Research on Language in Social Interaction 1995; ‘Seeing in Depth’ Social Studies of Science 1995; ‘Transparent Vision’ In Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, & Sandra Thompson (Eds.), Interaction and Grammar 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ‘Practices of Color Classification’ Mind, Culture and Activity 1999, ‘Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction’ Journal of Pragmatics 1999. His interests include study of the discursive practices used by hearers and speakers to construct utterances, stories and other forms of talk, language in the professions (for example analysis of the courtroom arguments used to free the policemen who beat Rodney King), the ethnography of science (including studies of archaeological field excavations and oceanographers working in the mouth of the Amazon), cognition in the workplace (he spent two years as a member of the Workplace Project at Xerox PARC) and aphasia in discourse.
Please go to http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/ for publications, current projects, and more.
Keywords:
Conversation, Embodiment, Discourse in the Workplace, Ethnography of Science,
Aphasia in Discourse, Hearer, Stories, Gesture, Situated Cognition
