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Social distance and speech behavior: The case of indirect complaints

Diana Boxer

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Diana Boxer received her Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. This article is based on her forthcoming book Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (Peter Lang Publishing). She is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and academic coordinator of the English Language Institute at the University of Florida.

Making a request and accepting it: A case study of Peruvian Spanish speakers 127

Carmen Garcia

Carmen Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portu- guese of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (USA). She got her education from the University of Lima, Peru (B.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1966) the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas (M.A. in Education, 1969) and Georgetown University (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1985). Among her recent publications are ‘Disagreeing and requesting by Americans and Venezuelans’ in Linguistics and

Education (1988) and ‘Apologizing in English: Politeness strategies used by native and non-native speakers’ in Multilingua (1989).

Admission of guilt as a communicative project in judicial settings 153

Per Linell, Lotta Alemyr and Linda Jonsson

Per Line11 (born 1944) received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Uppsala University in 1974. Since 1981 he holds a professorship in communication studies within the interdisciplinary research program (Tema) at the University of Linkiiping, Sweden. His earlier publications include Psychological Reality in Phonology (1979) and The Written

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Language Bias in Linguistics (1982). His current research concerns sociopragmatics and the theory of spoken interaction. Several recent projects have dealt with professional- lay communication. Some recent papers have been published in Dyncrmics crnd Dialogue and Asymmetries in Dialogue, both edited by I. Markovi and F. Koppa (Harvester Wheatsheaf).

Lotta Alemyr (born 1957) received her M.A. in Language Teaching from the Univer- sity of Linkiiping, Sweden. She is now a student counsellor at the Department of Teacher Training, University of Linkoping.

Linda Jiinsson (born 1950) received her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Linkiiping in 1988. She is now lecturer in Swedish at this university. Her research is mostly concerned with communication in court trials and police interroga- tions (dissertation title: ‘On being heard in court trials and police interrogations’).

Organization of turn-taking and mechanisms for turn-taking repairs in a chaired meeting 177

Janine Larrue and Alain Trognon

Janine Larrue is Research Director (Centre National de la Recherche Scicntifique). She heads the laboratory of Social Psychology at Toulouse-le-Mimi1 University. Her major research interests are the social psychology of ideological representations in social groups, especially political groups. She has also published many papers on conversation analysis in social psychology and a book Soumission et idcWogie (Bernc: Delval, 1990).

Alain Trognon is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Nancy II. where he is head of the Laboratory of Psychology and the Groupe de Recherches sur les Communications. His major interests are the description of the different varieties of conversation (such as: psychotherapies, schizophrenic and autistic conversations. debates, decisions in groups, etc.) and formalizing the properties of their mechanisms. He has co-edited several books (Manuel d’anulyse de cwntenu. Paris: Armand Cohn). Les techniques d’enquetes en sciences sociales. Paris: Dunod). He has also edited a number of special issues on conversation and interaction ( Verhum, 1984, 1989, 1992: Connexions 1986, 1989, 1991; Psychologie Franpzise. 1993) and he has published many papers in these areas.

Book review

Wolfram Bubhtz,

Carla Bazzanella

Carla Bazzanella

Supportive fellow-speakers and cooperative conversations 197

(born 1947) teaches Philosophy of Language at the University of

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Turin (Italy). She has published on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, morphosyntax, and pragmatics. Her recent studies deal with spoken Italian: discourse markers, dialogic repetition, interruptions, and scalar dimensions of illocutionary force.