In this introduction to the special issue of Discourse Studies on `Referring to Self and Others in Conversation' we briefly survey the history of conversation analytic work on reference to persons from Sacks and Schegloff's (1979) pioneering seven-page paper to the most recently published work. We then introduce the contributions to the special issue.
Clark, H.H. and Wilkes-Gibbs, D. (1986) ` Referring as a Collaborative Process' , Cognition22: 1—39 .
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Duranti, A. (1984) ` The Social Meaning of Subject Pronouns in Italian Conversation' , Text6: 277—311 .
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Edwards, D. (1991) ` Categories are for Talking: On the Cognitive and Discursive Bases of Categorization', Theory andPsychology1(4): 515—42 .
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Egbert, M. (2004) ` Other-initiated Repair and Membership Categorization: Some Conversational Events that Trigger Linguistic and Regional Membership Categorization', Journal ofPragmatics36: 1467—98 .
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Enfield, N.J. and Stivers, T. (eds) (2007) Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
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Ford, C.E. and Fox, B.A. (1996) `Interactional Motivations for Reference Formulation: He Had. This Guy Had, a Beautiful, Thirty-two O:lds', in B. Fox (ed) Studies in Anaphora, pp. 145—68. Amsterdam: Benjamins .
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Fox, B.A. (1987) Discourse Structure and Anaphora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
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Hacohen, G. and Schegloff, E.A. (2006) ` On the Preference for Minimization in Referring to Persons: Evidence from Hebrew Conversation', Journal ofPragmatics38: 1305—12 .
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Heritage, J. (2007) `Intersubjectivity and Progressivity in Person (and Place) Reference', in N.J. Enfield and T. Stivers (eds) Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
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Hester, S. and Eglin, P. (1997) Culture in Action: Membership Categorization Analysis . Boston, MA: International Institute for Ethnomethodology and University Press of America .
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Jefferson, G. (1996) `On the Poetics of Ordinary Talk' , Text and Performance Quarterly16: 11—61 .
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Kitzinger, C. (2005a) `Speaking as a Heterosexual: (How) Does Sexuality Matter for Talk-in-interaction' , Research on Language and Social Interaction38(3): 221—65 .
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Kitzinger, C. (2005b) `Heteronormativity in Action: Reproducing Normative Heterosexuality in “After Hours” Calls to the Doctor' , Social Problems (special section: `Language, Interaction and Social Problems') 52(4): 477—98 .
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Kitzinger, C. (2007) `Is “Woman” Always Relevantly Gendered?' , Gender and Language1(1): 39—49 .
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Kitzinger, C. and Rickford, R. (2007) `Becoming a “Bloke”: The Construction of Gender in Interaction' , Feminism & Psychology17(2): 214—23 .
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Land, V. and Kitzinger, C. (2005) ` Speaking as a Lesbian: Correcting the Heterosexual Presumption' , Research on Language and Social Interaction38(4): 371—416 .
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Lerner, G.H. (1993) ` Collectivities in Action: Establishing the Relevance of Conjoined Participation in Conversation' , Text13: 213—45 .
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Lerner, G.H. (1996a) ` On the Place of Linguistic Resources in the Organization of Talk-in interaction: “Second Person” Reference in Multi-party Conversation ', Pragmatics6: 281—94 .
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Lerner, G.H. (1996b) `On the “Semi-permeable” Character of Grammatical Units in Conversation: Conditional Entry into the Turn Space of Another Speaker', in E. Ochs , E.A. Schegloff and S.A. Thompson (eds) Interaction and Grammar, pp. 238—76. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
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Lerner, G.H. (2003) ` Selecting Next Speaker: The Context-sensitive Operation of a Context-free Organization ', Language in Society32(2): 177—201 .
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Moerman, M. (1987) Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press .
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Oh, S.-Y. (2005) ` English Zero Anaphora as an Interactional Resource ', Research on Language and Social Interaction38(3): 267—302 .
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Oh, S.-Y. (2006) ` English Zero Anaphora as an Interactional Resource II ', Discourse Studies8: 817—46 .
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Oh, S.-Y. (2007) `The Interactional Meanings of Quasi-Pronouns in Korean Conversation', in N.J. Enfield and T. Stivers (eds) Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
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Sacks, H. (1992) Lectures on Conversation, 2 vols, ed. G. Jefferson , with an introduction by E.A. Schegloff.Oxford: Basil Blackwell .
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Sacks, H. and Schegloff, E.A. (1979) `Two Preferences in the Organization of Reference to Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction', in G. Psathas (ed.) Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology , pp. 15—21. New York: Irvington .
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Schegloff, E.A. (1972) `Notes on a Conversational Practice: Formulating Place', in D. Sudnow (ed.) Studies in Social Interaction, pp. 75—119. New York: Free Press .
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Schegloff, E.A. (1979) `The relevance of Repair to Syntax-for-conversation' , in T. Givon (ed.) Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 12: Discourse and Syntax, pp. 261—88. New York: Academic Press .
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Schegloff, E.A. (1988) ` Description in the Social Sciences I: Talk-in-interaction', IPrA Papers in Pragmatics2: 1—24 .
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Schegloff, E.A. (1996) `Some Practices of Referring to Persons in Talk-in-interaction: A Partial Sketch of a Systematics', in B. Fox (ed.) Studies in Anaphora, pp. 437—85. Amsterdam: Benjamins .
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Schegloff, E.A. (2007) Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
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Stockill, C. and Kitzinger, C. (2007) ` Gendered “People”: How Linguistically Non-gendered Terms Can Have Gendered Interactional Relevance' , Feminism & Psychology17(2): 224—36 .
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Stokoe, E. (2006) ` On Ethnomethodology, Feminism, and the Analysis of Categorical Reference to Gender in Talk-in-interaction' , Sociological Review54(3): 467—94 .
