Bad News, Good News
Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical Settings
337 pages
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4 halftones, 2 charts, 2 line drawings
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6 x 9
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© 2003
When we share or receive good or bad news, from ordinary events such as the birth of a child to public catastrophes such as 9/11, our "old" lives come to an end, and suddenly we enter a new world. In Bad News, Good News, Douglas W. Maynard explores how we tell and hear such news, and what's similar and different about our social experiences when the tidings are bad rather than good or vice versa.
Uncovering vocal and nonvocal patterns in everyday conversations, clinics, and other organizations, Maynard shows practices by which people give and receive good or bad news, how they come to realize the news and their new world, how they suppress or express their emotions, and how they construct social relationships through the sharing of news. He also reveals the implications of his study for understanding public affairs in which transmitting news may influence society at large, and he provides recommendations for professionals and others on how to deliver bad or good tidings more effectively.
For anyone who wants to understand the interactional facets of news delivery and receipt and their social implications, Bad News, Good News offers a wealth of scholarly insights and practical advice.
Uncovering vocal and nonvocal patterns in everyday conversations, clinics, and other organizations, Maynard shows practices by which people give and receive good or bad news, how they come to realize the news and their new world, how they suppress or express their emotions, and how they construct social relationships through the sharing of news. He also reveals the implications of his study for understanding public affairs in which transmitting news may influence society at large, and he provides recommendations for professionals and others on how to deliver bad or good tidings more effectively.
For anyone who wants to understand the interactional facets of news delivery and receipt and their social implications, Bad News, Good News offers a wealth of scholarly insights and practical advice.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Bad News, Good News, and Everyday Life
2 On Realization in Everyday Life
3 Conversatioin Analysis and Ethnography: What is the Context of an Utterance?
4 The 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
Appendix 1: Transcribing Conventions
Appendix 2: Some Conversation Analytiuc Precepts
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index
1 Bad News, Good News, and Everyday Life
2 On Realization in Everyday Life
3 Conversatioin Analysis and Ethnography: What is the Context of an Utterance?
4 The 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
Appendix 1: Transcribing Conventions
Appendix 2: Some Conversation Analytiuc Precepts
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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