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Gumperz, John J. 2014 1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, selected 1-7. The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis, Angermuller, Johannes, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 218–223 | Article

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny and John J. Gumperz 2012 The public face of language: Why spelling matters Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 197–212 | Article

This chapter looks at the debates surrounding the reform of the German spelling system that took place from the early 1990s through to 2006. Given Germany’s federal system of government such changes, although proposed by a Government appointed Commission, had to be debated, and enacted by each… read more

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny and John J. Gumperz 2011 Commentary: Frames and contexts: Another look at the macro-micro link Reframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society, Takanashi, Hiroko and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (eds.), pp. 283–286 | Article

One of the main challenges resulting from the past two decades of shift toward detailed micro-analytic studies of language and interaction has been the awareness of a need to relate microanalysis to wider social-cultural aspects of interactional situations. read more

Gumperz, John J. 2003 8. Response essay Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz, Eerdmans, Susan L., Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault (eds.), pp. 105–126 | Chapter

Gumperz, John J. 2001 Contextualization and Ideology in Intercultural Communication Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations, Di Luzio, Aldo, Susanne Günthner and Franca Orletti (eds.), pp. 35–54 | Article

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny and John J. Gumperz 1997 Narrative Explanations: Accounting for Past Experience in Interviews Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis, pp. 291–298 | Article

Gumperz, John J. 1997 On the interactional bases of speech community membership Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Article

Gumperz, John J. 1992 Contextualization Revisited The Contextualization of Language, Auer, Peter and Aldo Di Luzio (eds.), pp. 39–54 | Article

Gumperz, John J. and Celia Roberts 1991 Understanding in intercultural encounters The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Blommaert, Jan † and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 51–90 | Article