The Problem of Nonresponse in the Survey Interview: Conversation Analyses of "Requesting" and Related Social Actions in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Doug Maynard received his Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara. He is Conway-Bascom Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is co-editor of Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview (New York: Wiley Interscience, 2002), and of Communication in Medical Care: Interaction between Primary Care Physicians and Patients (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is also the author of Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical Settings (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003). Current research addresses a variety of topics in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, including recruitment to the survey interview, condolence sequences in conversation and institutional talk, defensiveness in talk through the use of I-mean prefaced utterances, autism in interaction, small talk and "disattentiveness" in clinics, among others.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

12noon

Ellison Hall 2834

{Professor Maynard will also be presenting his research on “I-mean” prefaced utterances to LISO at 1:30 PM on Friday, May 2 in Phelps 2536.}