Your Papers

You can download the final papers that I have received.

Please find also my comments.

All the best to you all - thank you for your interest in my course. I wish you all the best for your future!

Giolo Fele


Staging Death

Death as a rite of passage

Social Influence and Peer Educators Impact

Framing of Disaster Experience

Public Apologies in the TRC Process

The Construction of Media Frames


COMMENTS AND EVALUATIONS

Organization of your paper

Please post here the draft of the organization of your final paper!

Unit 19 – December 5th

19 – Conversation Analysis and Workplace Studies


Harvey Sacks, Fall 1964, Lecture 1; Fall 1968, Lecture 3; Spring 1972, Lecture 1

E.A. Schegloff & H. Sacks 1973 Opening up Closings

John Heritage 1984, 'A Change of State Token and Aspects of Its Sequential Placement', in J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage (eds), Structures of Social Action, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 299-345.

Charles Goodwin, Professional vision (1994)

Christian Heath 2002 Demonstrative suffering: The Gestural (Re)embodiment of Symptoms

C. Heath, J. Hindmarsh & P. Luff 1999 Interaction in isolation - train driver

Jon Hindmarsh & A. Pilnick 2002 THE TACIT ORDER OF TEAMWORK - anesthesia

Unit 18 - December 3rd

18 - Ethnomethodology

Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology. Chapter 2, “Studies of the routine grounds of everyday activities"

Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology. Chapter 3, “Common Sense Knowledge of Social Structures: the Documentary Method of Interpretation in Lay and Professional Fact Finding.”

Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology. Chapter 5, “Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an Intersexed Person.”

Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology's Program. Chapter 6, "Instructions and Instructed Actions"
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742516427

About Harold Garfinkel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Garfinkel

Sacks, Harvey (1972) ‘Notes on police assessment of moral character’. In: David Sudnow, ed. Studies in social interaction. New York: Free Press: 280-93

David Sudnow, Ways of the Hand, Part I - MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ways-hand

Michael Lynch 1988 Sacrifice and the transformation of the animal body

Doug Macbeth 2012 Some notes on the play of basketball in its circumstantial detail, and an introduction to their occasion

Ken Liberman, The Phenomenology of Coffee Tasting: Lessons in Practical Objectivity, in: More Studies in Ethnomethodology, SUNY Press 2013
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5633-more-studies-in-ethnomethodolog.aspx

Dusan Bjelic & Michael Lynch (1992). The work of scientific demonstration - Newton and Goethe theories of color

Unit 17 - November 26th

17 Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

F. de Saussure, Cours in general linguistics, 1913 (selected parts)

(here you can find the full book: Cours in general linguistics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure

D. Hymes, Ethnography of communication (1964)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes

B. Bernstein, Codes, Modalities, and the Process of Cultural Reproduction: A Model (1981)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Bernstein

W. Labov, Field methods

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Labov

John J. Gumperz, Chapter 11. Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective, in
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gumperz

Just to have an overview of the field check Sociolinguistics Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolinguistics

Second draft of your proposal!

Please post here the second draft of your proposal for the final paper!

Unit 14 - November 19th

14 Animals

Goode 2006 Playing with my Dog Katie - An Ethnomethodological Study of Dog-Human Interaction
http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/playing-my-dog-katie-ethno-methodological-study-caninehuman-interaction

Clever Hans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

Sumpter 2006 The principles of collective animal behaviour
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626537/

S. Strum et B. Latour, « The Meanings of Social : from Baboons to Humans » [1987]
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/30-STRUM-LATOUR-SOCIAL-GB.pdf

Walker 1998 animal-communication