research overview
- Dr. Fox's research explores the organization of syntax/grammar by looking at language use in everyday interaction.
- Contact Info
Fox, Barbara
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Linguistics
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- interactional linguistics, discourse-functional syntax, conversation analysis
Publications
selected publications
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book
- Grammar in Everyday Talk Building Responsive Actions 2015
- Studies in Anaphora 1996
- Discourse Structure and Anaphora 1993
- Discourse Structure and Anaphora: Written and Conversational English 1993
- The human tutorial dialogue project 1993
- Discourse Structure and Anaphora in Written and Conversational English 1987
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chapter
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Asserting no-problemness in Spanish.
Typological Studies in Language.
119-152.
2020
- Dropping off or picking up?: Professionals’ use of objects as a resource for determining the purpose of a customer encounter 2019
- Ephemeral practices: Reference and repair in an extended turn. 2015
- Ephemeral Grammar: At the Far End of Emergence. 95-119. 2015
- Forms of responsivity 2014
- Social Interaction and Grammar. 119-143. 2014
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Units and/or Action Trajectories?.
Studies in Language and Social Interaction.
13-56.
2013
- Units or practices? Building trajectories in talk-in-interaction 2013
- Conversation Analysis in Linguistics 2012
- Conversation Analysis and repair organization: overview 2012
- Conversation Analysis and self-repair 2012
- Constructing laughables 2010
- Introduction 2010
- Dynamics of discourse. 255-284. 2008
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Sound Patterns in Interaction.
Typological Studies in Language.
2004
- Getting past “no" 2004
- Interaction and grammar 2003
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On the embodied nature of grammar.
79-99.
2002
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An exploration of prosody and turn projection in English conversation.
287-316.
2001
- Resources and repair: a cross-linguistic study of the syntactic organization of repair 1996
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Interactional Motivations for Reference Formulation.
Typological Studies in Language.
145-168.
1996
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The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation.
Studies in Language Companion Series.
153-178.
1995
- A Syntactic Exploration of Repair in English Conversation. 77-134. 1995
- The category 'S' in conversational English 1995
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Active Voice and Middle Diathesis.
Typological Studies in Language.
1-22.
1994
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Anaphora in popular written English narratives.
Typological Studies in Language.
157-174.
1987
- Participant Tracking in Toba Batak. 59-79. 1984
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Asserting no-problemness in Spanish.
Typological Studies in Language.
119-152.
2020
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conference proceeding
- Multiple practices for constructing laughables. 339-368. 2008
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journal article
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Modulating action through minimization: Syntax in the service of offering and requesting.
Language in society.
53-91.
2021
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Are They Requests? An Exploration of Declaratives of Trouble in Service Encounters.
Research on Language and Social Interaction.
20-38.
2021
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Spatio-temporal contingencies for making a request at the shoe repair shop.
Journal of Pragmatics.
20-67.
2020
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Scaffolding Embodied Access for Categorization in Interactions between a Blind Child and Her Mother.
Languages.
2019
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Telescoping responses to requests: Unpacking progressivity.
Discourse Studies.
38-66.
2019
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Issues in Action Formation: Requests and the Problem with x.
Open Linguistics.
31-64.
2017
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Morphological self-repair Self-repair within the word.
Studies in Language.
638-659.
2017
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Rethinking format: An examination of requests.
Language in society.
499-531.
2016
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The Alignment of Manual and Verbal Displays in Requests for the Repair of an Object.
Research on Language and Social Interaction.
342-362.
2015
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On the notion of pre-request.
Discourse Studies.
41-63.
2015
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It's like mmm: Enactments with it's like.
Discourse Studies.
715-738.
2010
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A cross-linguistic study of self-repair: Evidence from English, German, and Hebrew (vol 42, pg 2487, 2010).
Journal of Pragmatics.
3161-3161.
2010
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A cross-linguistic study of self-repair: Evidence from English, German, and Hebrew.
Journal of Pragmatics.
2487-2505.
2010
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Responses to Wh-Questions in English Conversation.
Research on Language and Social Interaction.
133-156.
2010
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Principles shaping grammatical practices: an exploration.
Discourse Studies.
299-318.
2007
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Relative Clauses in English conversation - Relativizers, frequency, and the notion of construction.
Studies in Language.
293-326.
2007
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Verbal Allusions in Milton's Samson Agonistes to his History of Britain and to Drayton's Poly-Olbion.
Notes and Queries.
188-189.
2006
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Evidentiality: Authority, Responsibility, and Entitlement in English Conversation.
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
167-192.
2001
- Practices in the Construction of Turns: The 'TCU' Revisited. Pragmatics. 427-454. 1996
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Contextualization, indexicality, and the distributed nature of grammar.
Language Sciences.
1-37.
1994
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THE PRAGMATICS OF WORD ORDER - TYPOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF VERB INITIAL LANGUAGES - PAYNE,DL.
American Anthropologist.
471-472.
1992
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A DISCOURSE EXPLANATION OF THE GRAMMAR OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ENGLISH CONVERSATION.
Language.
297-316.
1990
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Anaphora in Popular Stories: Implications for Narrative Theory.
Empirical Studies of the Arts.
149-169.
1988
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ANALYZING CONVERSATION - RULES AND UNITS IN THE STRUCTURE OF TALK - TAYLOR,T, CAMERON,D.
Language and Speech.
87-93.
1988
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THE NOUN PHRASE ACCESSIBILITY HIERARCHY REINTERPRETED - SUBJECT PRIMACY OR THE ABSOLUTIVE HYPOTHESIS.
Language.
856-870.
1987
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INTERACTIONAL RECONSTRUCTION IN REAL-TIME LANGUAGE PROCESSING.
Cognitive Science.
365-387.
1987
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MORPHOSYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS AND DISCOURSE STRUCTURE.
Journal of Pragmatics.
359-375.
1987
- Figure-Ground in Language: A Study of Several Topic Continuity Devices in Chamorro. 149-180. 1982
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Modulating action through minimization: Syntax in the service of offering and requesting.
Language in society.
53-91.
2021
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles 1984
- M.A., University of California-Los Angeles 1981
- B.A., University of California-Los Angeles 1980
International Activities
geographic focus
- Denmark Country
- Finland Country
- Sweden Country
- Switzerland Country
- United Kingdom Country