LSI Classic Texts

Foundations in LSI

Mandelbaum, J. (2003). Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper (P.J. Glenn, & C.D. LeBaron, Eds.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410606969

Fitch, K. L., & Sanders, R. E. (Eds.). (2004). Handbook of language and social interaction. Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410611574

Tracy, K., & Haspel, K. (2004). Language and social interaction: Its institutional identity, intellectual landscape, and discipline-shifting agenda. Journal of communication, 54(4), 788.

Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (Ed.). (2010). The social history of language and social interaction research: People, places, ideas. Hampton Press.

Recent Books in LSI

Shrikant, N., & Williamson, F. A. (2026). Race talk in institutional settings: A language and social interaction perspective. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b23727

Dori-Hacohen, G., Grimshaw, E., & Reijven, M. H. (2024). Politicians at night: Interaction and discourse on the entertainment-political interview. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Waring, H. Z., & Tadic, N. (Eds.). (2024). Critical conversation analysis: Inequality and injustice in talk-in-interaction (Vol. 31). Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800415409

Key areas in LSI

Carbaugh, D. (2005). Cultures in Conversation (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi-org.colorado.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781410613837

Schegloff, E. A. (2007). A primer in conversation analysis. Cambridge University Press.
https://doi-org.colorado.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791208

Gordon, C. (2011). Gumperz and interactional sociolinguistics. In Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, and Paul Kerswill (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics (67-84). London: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446200957.n6

Sidnell, J., & Stivers, T. (Eds.). (2012). The handbook of conversation analysis. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118325001

Gordon, C., & Tannen, D. (2023). Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics. Discourse Studies, 25(2), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445623115