Publications
Lerner, Gene H. 2020. Referring to somebody: Generic person reference as an interactional resource. Journal of Pragmatics 161 : 46–56.
Lerner, Gene H., ed. 2017. Enabling Human Conduct. Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 273). John Benjamins.
Lerner, Gene H. 2009. When are persons ‘white’?: on some practical asymmetries of racial reference in talk-in-interaction. Discourse & Society 20 (5) : 613–651.
Lerner, Gene H. 2004. On the Place of Linguistic Resources in the Organization of Talk-in-Interaction: Grammar as Action in Prompting a Speaker to Elaborate. Research on Language and Social Interaction 37 (2) : 151–184.
Lerner, Gene H. 2003. Selecting next speaker: The context-sensitive operation of a context-free organization. Language in Society 32 (2) : 177–201.
Lerner, Gene H. 1999. On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction: A co-investigation of English and Japanese grammatical practices. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (1) : 49–75.
Lerner, Gene H. 1996. On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction: 'Second person' reference in multi-party conversation. Pragmatics 6 (3) : 281–294.
Lerner, Gene H. 1995. Turn design and the organization of participation in instructional activities. Discourse Processes 19 (1) : 111–131.