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    Bad news, good news : conversational order in everyday talk and clinical settings / Douglas W. Maynard.

    • Title:Bad news, good news : conversational order in everyday talk and clinical settings / Douglas W. Maynard.
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    • Author/Creator:Maynard, Douglas W., 1946-
    • Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Conversation analysis.
      Social interaction.
    • Description:x, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and indexes.
    • ISBN:0226511944 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0226511952 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. Bad News, Good News, and Everyday Life
      2. On Realization in Everyday Life
      3. Conversation Analysis and Ethnography: What Is the Context of an Utterance?
      4. 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
      App. 1. Transcribing Conventions
      App. 2. Some Conversation Analytic Precepts.
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