Kevin A. Whitehead
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kevin A. Whitehead plays a role.
Articles
2020 Extraordinary emergencies: Reproducing moral discourses of the child in institutional interaction Pragmatics and Society 11:1, pp. 45–69 | Article
This report uses audio recorded telephone calls and textual data from an emergency medical services call center to examine the interactional practices through which speakers produce what we call “extraordinary emergencies”, treating the events concerned as requiring moral, as well as medical,… read more
2011 Some uses of head nods in “third position” in talk-in-interaction Gesture 11:2, pp. 103–122 | Article
Previous research on the use of head nods in talk-in-interaction has demonstrated that they can be used for various interactional purposes by speakers and recipients in different sequential positions. In this report, I examine speakers’ uses of nods in “third position”, in the course of “minimal… read more