Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)
"This collection of extremely well-written and well-argued essays will have a broad appeal for students of language, interaction, coversation analysis, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics.  This book will be useful for graduate courses in those areas, as well as in qualitative methodology, because defining and understanding context are important for qualitative research, not just that which directly focuses on language use."   Angela Garcia, Contemporary Sociology"The perspectives represented in the volume are wide-ranging and impressive....The editors, in particular, and their contributors have done the field a service by offering it this volume, the most successful and thought-provoking collection of papers by various researchers that I have seen in some time."   Keith Walters, Anthropological Linguistics"...a highly useful demonstration of both the numerous versions of context available in the literature and the importance of being precise in what one means by the term in any particular instance."  Gary D. Prideaux, Canadian Journal of Linguistics