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Douglas W. Maynard

Bad News, Good News

Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical Settings

337 pages, 4 halftones, 2 charts, 2 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2003

Cloth $81.00

ISBN: 9780226511948   Published May 2003

Paper $30.00

ISBN: 9780226511955   Published May 2003

Acknowledgments
1 Bad News, Good News, and Everyday Life
2 On Realization in Everyday Life
3 Conversatioin Analysis and Ethnography: What is the Context of an Utterance?
4 The News Delivery Sequence
5 Whose News Is This? Social Relationships in Bad and Good News
6 Shrouding Bad News, Exposing Good News: The Benign Order of Everyday Life
7 Praising or Blaming the Messenger: Moral Issues in Deliveries of Good and Bad News
8 Sociopolitical Implications: Everyday Rationality in Public Decision Making
Epilogue: How to Tell the News
Appendix 1: Transcribing Conventions
Appendix 2: Some Conversation Analytiuc Precepts
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Subjects


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