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Social Accountability in Communication Richard Buttny

Social Accountability in Communication By Richard Buttny

Social Accountability in Communication by Richard Buttny

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Much of our talk revolves around accounting for our own and other people's actions. We praise one person and blame another, justify our own actions, speculate on motives, tell and retell problematic events. This volume draws upon speech communication, sociology and social psychology to offer an original approach to such accounts.

Social Accountability in Communication Summary

Social Accountability in Communication by Richard Buttny

Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Language & Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association 2007!

Much of our talk revolves around accounting for our own and other people's actions. We praise one person and blame another, justify our own actions, speculate on motives, tell and retell problematic events. This volume draws upon speech communication, sociology and social psychology to offer an original approach to such accounts.

Richard Buttny examines social accountability within communication contexts that range from a therapy session to welfare and broadcast news interviews, from everyday conversation to discussions in a Zen monastery. Throughout his wide-ranging analysis of accounts talk, he integrates conversation analytic methods with social constructionism.

Social Accountability in Communication Reviews

`Accounts are a pervasive form of communication behavior, and, while they have not been ignored, accounts deserve more study than they have enjoyed thus far. Thus, Buttny's book comes as a welcome contribution to the literature... Together, the essays offer an important contribution to our understanding of accounts. Buttny provides a thoughtful review of the literature, articulates his philosophical and methodological choices, and offers several rich analyses of situated accounting practices. As such, this book enhances our appreciation for an important and pervasive form of communicative activity' - Communication Theory

`Includes some valuable insights about accounting practices and interpersonal communication... Most notably, the book represents an important initial effort to disrupt traditional and ossified variable analytic approaches to understanding communicative practices, including accounting practices. In this regard... Buttny has engendered a process of "baby-stepping" toward richer, more productive understandings of human communication and how to study it... by no means a trivial accomplishment' - Theory & Psychology

`Concepts like "accounts", "accounting practices" and "accountability" are among the most important in recent social science... the book contains many interesting observations and ideas' - Discourse & Society

About Richard Buttny

Richard Buttny is Associate Professor in the speech communication department at Syracuse University

Table of Contents

Foreword - Marvin Scott Introduction and Preview Social Accountability and the Practical Necessity for Accounts A Reading of the Accounts Literature A Conversation Analytic Constructionist Perspective on Accounts Accounts Analysis Methods and Methodological Issues Blame-Accounts Sequences in Couple Therapy Accountability for Relational Problems Discursive Affect in Situations of Social Accountability The Social Accountability of Zen Understanding - with Thomas L Isbell Teacher-Student Interviews in a North American Zen Monastery Social Accountability Practices during a Welfare Interview Diverging Accounts, Repeated Problems, and Ascriptions of Responsibility Accounts and Accountability Practices in News Interviews Conclusion Social Accountability Practices in Contexts

Additional information

NPB9780803983076
9780803983076
0803983077
Social Accountability in Communication by Richard Buttny
Richard Buttny
New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
1993-10-07
196
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