The Social History of Language and Social Interaction Research: People, Places, Ideas: People, Places, Ideas (Hampton Press Communication Series)

Edited by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz The biography of a subject rather than a person, this book examines the who, what, when, and where of Language and Social Interaction (LSI) research, primarily as studied within the discipline of Communication. Ideas do not just arise from nowhere, and get accepted because they are seen to be intrinsically valuable. The book describes the people who had the ideas, where they were working when they had them, who they were working with, and how their students carried those ideas beyond the boundaries of a single campus. The experience of learning about LSI, and learning how to do it, is quite different across universities, and within universities the experience was different at various points in time, depending on who was where when. It is the goal of this book to describe the experiences these authors had at these institutions at these specific moments in time. The focus here is on the early history (1960's and 1970's), within Communication, and in the United States.Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests are in language and social interaction, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, semiotics, communication theory, childhood socialization, and history of the discipline. Her major publications include the books Communication in Everyday Life (Ablex), Semiotics and Communication, and Wedding as Text (Erlbaum), and the edited collections Social Approaches to Communication (Guilford), From Generation to Generation and Socially Constructing Communication (Hampton).