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Academic Article

Year Title
2018 Early Alignment in Police Traffic Stops.  Research on Language and Social Interaction.  51:292-312. 2018
2018 Making and Impression in Traffic Stops: Citizens' Volunteered Accounts in Two Positions.  Discourse Studies: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk.  20:613-636. 2018
2010 ‘Let me tell you about myself ’: A method for suppressing subject talk in a ‘soft accusation’ interrogation.  Discourse Studies: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk.  12:65-89. 2010
2009 Gaze Shift as an Interactional Resource for Very Young Children.  Discourse Processes.  46:145-160. 2009
2009 What Happened? : An Epistemics of Before and After in “At-the-Scene” Police Questioning.  Research on Language and Social Interaction.  42:20-41. 2009
2007 Joint attention as action.  Journal of Pragmatics.  39:592-611. 2007
2006 "Observability" in the Interactions of Very Young Children.  Communication Monographs.  73:1-28. 2006
2005 Gaze as Social Control: How Very Young Children Differentiate "The Look" From a "Mere Look" by Their Adult Caregivers.  Research on Language and Social Interaction.  38:417-449. 2005
2000 Common Ground in Cross-Cultural Communication: Sequential and Institutional Contexts in Front Desk Service Encounters.  Issues in Applied Linguistics.  11:17-37. 2000

Chapter

Year Title
2015 Gaze.  657-661. 2015
2014 Gaze in Conversational Interaction.  1324-1333. 2014
2013 Conversation Analysis and Children.  509-532. 2013
2013 Troubles with ‘Availability’ in Directive-Response Sequences 2013
2011 Epistemics and Embodiment in Very Young Children’s Interactions 2011
A Resource for Action in the Social Lives of Very Young Children.  257-284.
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