The Handbook of Conversation Analysis

Notes on Contributors

Charles Antaki is Professor of Lan­guage and Social Psychology at Lough­borough University, UK. His interests are in Conversation Analysis, and among his publications are Identities in Talk (with Sue Widdicombe), Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (with Anssi Peräkylä, Sanna Vehviläinen and Ivan Leudar), and Applied Conver­sation Analysis. He is Editor of the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction.

Wayne A. Beach is Professor in the School of Communication at SDSU, Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, and Member of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego. His research and teaching focus on the convergence of conversational and institutional interactions. He is the author of Conver­sations about Illness, A Natural History of Family Cancer, and the edited Handbook of Patient-Provider Interactions. External funding for his research has been awarded from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and several philanthropic foundations in San Diego.

Galina B. Bolden is Associate Pro­fessor in the Department of Communi­cation, Rutgers University. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has conducted conversation analytic research into the organization of talk-in-interaction in English and Russian languages in ordinary and institutional settings as well as into the organization of bilingual talk. She has published articles in venues ...