Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is an American linguist and distinguished professor from the University of Helsinki. Couper-Kuhlen is regarded as an important figure in the development of interactional linguistics and the study of prosody in conversation, through a number of books co-edited with Margret Selting: the 1996 book Prosody in Conversation, the 2001 book Studies in Interactional Linguistics also co-edited with Selting, and the textbook Interactional Linguistics. Her book Building Responsive Action written together with Barbara Fox and Sandra Thompson received the best book award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis in 2018.

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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen's Published Works

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An introduction to English prosody (1986) (330)
Studies in Interactional Linguistics (2001) (233)
Prosody in conversation: The prosody of repetition: on quoting and mimicry (1996) (182)
Prosody in conversation : interactional studies (1996) (177)
Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis, vol. 1 (review) (2010) (174)
Prosody in conversation: Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction (1996) (172)
A system for transcribing talk-in-interaction : GAT 2 (2011) (172)
What does grammar tell us about action (2014) (170)
QUOTE - UNQUOTE? : the role of prosody in the contextualization of reported speech sequences (1999) (160)
English speech rhythm (1993) (155)
Introducing Interactional Linguistics (2001) (138)
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction (2005) (134)
Concessive patterns in conversation (2000) (133)
'Incrementing' in Conversation. A Comparison of Practices in English, German and Japanese (2007) (128)
Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions (2015) (127)
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives (2000) (127)
Exploring Affiliation in the Reception of Conversational Complaint Stories (2012) (122)
Coherent voicing : On prosody in conversational reported speech (1998) (116)
Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction (2018) (113)
Sound patterns in interaction : cross-linguistic studies from conversation (2004) (108)
Prosody and sequence organization in English conversation: The case of new beginnings (2004) (99)
Intonation and Clause Combining in Discourse: The Case of Because (1996) (95)
Interactional prosody: High onsets in reason-for-the-call turns (2001) (94)
Requesting in social interaction (2014) (87)
On the development of final though: A case of grammaticalization? (2002) (86)
Some truths and untruths about final intonation in conversational questions (2012) (78)
What is Interactional Linguistics (2017) (75)
Requesting – from speech act to recruitment (2014) (72)
Intonation and Discourse: Current Views from Within (2005) (66)
A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: ‘Concessive repair’ (2005) (63)
Contextualizing Discourse: The Prosody of Interactive Repair (1992) (60)
Language in Time: The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction (1999) (59)
On assessing situations and events in conversation: `extraposition' and its relatives (2008) (47)
Conversation Analysis and Linguistics (2012) (44)
Concession implies causality, though in some other space (2000) (41)
Nominated actions and their targeted agents in Finnish conversational directives (2015) (40)
A system for transcribing talkin-interaction : GAT 2 translated and adapted for English (2011) (37)
Commentary on Stivers and Rossano: “Mobilizing Response” (2010) (36)
Increments in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Introductory Remarks (2007) (34)
Reporting Talk: Assessing and accounting (2006) (34)
Foregrounding and Temporal Relations in Narrative Discourse (1989) (33)
On affectivity and preference in responses to rejection (2012) (31)
Prosody and sequence organization in English conversation (2004) (29)
Imperative turns at talk: The design of directives in action (2017) (28)
Prosody as dialogic interaction (2014) (25)
On the contextualizing function of speech rhythm in conversation: Question-answer sequences (1991) (22)
Constructing reason-for-the-call turns in everyday telephone conversation (2001) (22)
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations (2012) (22)
Grammaticalization and conversation (2011) (18)
Forschungsprogramm "Interaktionale Linguistik" (2001) (16)
Intonation and discourse (2015) (16)
Conversation and phonetics : essential connections (2004) (16)
The prepositional passive in English : a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs (1979) (15)
Turn-sharing revisited: An exploration of simultaneous speech in interactions between couples (2019) (14)
On divisions of labor in request and offer environments (2014) (14)
Action, prosody and emergent constructions: The case of and (2011) (12)
Finding a Place for Body Movement in Grammar (2018) (11)
Situated phonologies: patterns of phonology in discourse contexts (2007) (11)
On “Whistle” Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation (2020) (10)
On the markedness of 'narrative temporal clauses' (1989) (9)
When turn start with 'because': An exercise in interactional syntax (2011) (9)
Imperative turns at talk: An introduction (2017) (8)
On High Onsets and their Absence in Conversational Interaction (1998) (8)
The prepositional passive in English (1979) (8)
Relatedness and Timing in Talk-in-Interaction (2009) (8)
Pragmatics and prosody: Prosody as social action (2011) (7)
Insisting on ‘my side’: Siis-prefaced utterances in Finnish (2015) (7)
Analyzing language in interaction: the practice of never mind (2004) (7)
On initial boundary tones in English conversation (2003) (7)
Prosodic Cues of Discourse Units (2006) (7)
A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements (2005) (6)
On combining clauses and actions in interaction (2009) (6)
TEMPORAL RELATIONS AND REFERENCE TIME IN NARRATIVE DISCOURSE (1987) (5)
Conversation and phonetics (2004) (5)
Language over time (2021) (4)
Chapter 5. The prosody and phonetics of OKAY in American English (2021) (4)
Chapter 5. English why don’t you X as a formulaic expression (2020) (4)
Prosody in interactional discourse (1998) (4)
On the development of final though (2002) (4)
Prosody in conversation: List of contributors (1996) (3)
Action Ascription and Deonticity in Everyday Advice-Giving Sequences (2022) (3)
The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English (2020) (3)
In the face of resistance: A Finnish practice for insisting on imperatively formatted directives (2017) (3)
Prosody in conversation: Index of names (1996) (2)
Chapter 1. Imperative turns at talk: An introduction (2017) (2)
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Language function (2014) (2)
Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction (2017) (2)
Pragmatics: Special issue: Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics (2014) (2)
Isochrony and ‘Uncomfortable Moments’ in Conversation (1990) (1)
Responses in information-seeking sequences with ‘Question-word Interrogatives’ (2015) (1)
I Approaches to the PPP – Past and Present (1979) (0)
Prosody in conversation: Introduction (1996) (0)
V Grammar and Theory of the PPP (1979) (0)
Index of Authors and Subjects (1993) (0)
Grammar in Everyday Talk: Bibliography (2015) (0)
What a difference forty years make : The view from linguistics (2017) (0)
The sequence organization of spatial descriptions in route-giving talk (2002) (0)
Grammar in Everyday Talk: Responses in request-for-action sequences (2015) (0)
II The Semantics of Subject (1979) (0)
A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs (1979) (0)
Directive turn design and intersubjectivity (2021) (0)
Appendix: Transcription symbols (2015) (0)
Association INCREMENTS IN CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE : INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1 (2008) (0)
Implications for Language Theory (2017) (0)
Linking clauses for linking actions : Transforming requests and offers into joint ventures (2017) (0)
Appendix II: Instrumental measurements of perceptually non-isochronous sequences (1993) (0)
Joybrato Mukherjee, Form and function of parasyntactic presentation structures: a corpus-based study of talk units in spoken English. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2001. Hardback £27, ISBN 90 420 1295 1 (2003) (0)
IV PPP Acceptability (1979) (0)
Table of Figures (1993) (0)
Appendix I: Instrumental measurements of perceptually isochronous sequences (1993) (0)
The hierachical organization of speech rythm (1993) (0)
Forms of responsivity: Grammatical formats for responding to two types of request in conversation (2014) (0)
Forschungsprogramm, Interaktionale Linguistik: 2416 (2001) (0)
Interpreting speech rythm at sequence-external junctures (1993) (0)
Is there rythm in speech (1993) (0)
INTONATION AND CI"AUSE COMBINING IN DISCOURSE: THE CASE OF BECAASE (2008) (0)
Sequences with assessment responses (2015) (0)
Discovering rythm in English speech (1993) (0)
Analyzing speech rythm at turn transitions (1993) (0)
III The Semantics of Object (1979) (0)
Review of Joybrato Mukherjee, form and function of parasyntactic presentation structures : a corpus-based study of talk units in spoken English (2004) (0)
Can temporal clauses be insubordinate? (2023) (0)
Interpreting speech rytm in specific activity sequences (1993) (0)
Appendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function (1979) (0)
How are Linguistic Resources Deployed in Interaction (2017) (0)
Before speech: The design of early repair in pointing sequences (2002) (0)
Responses in informing sequences (2015) (0)
Accounting for speech rythm at turn transitions (1993) (0)
Sequence organization in interaction (2010) (0)

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