Calling for Help: Language and Social Interaction in Telephone HelplinesCarolyn D. Baker, Michael Emmison, Alan Firth Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original studies by both internationally renowned and emerging scholars seeks to improve upon this state of affairs. It does so by offering some of the first systematic investigations of naturally-occurring spoken interaction in telephone helplines. Using the methods of Conversation Analysis, each of the contributors offers a detailed investigation into the skills and competencies that callers and call-takers routinely draw upon when engaging one another within a range of helplines. Helplines in the US, the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Ireland, dealing with the provision of healthcare, emotional support and counselling, technical assistance and consumer rights, tourism and finance, make up the studies in the volume. Collectively and individually, the research provides fascinating insight into an under-researched area of modern living and demonstrates the relevance and potential of helplines for the growing field of institutional interaction. This book will be of interest to students of communication, applied linguistics, discourse and conversation, sociology, counselling, technology and work, social psychology and anthropology. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER | 6 |
Technical assistance | 39 |
Collaborative problem description in help desk calls | 63 |
CHAPTER 13 | 87 |
The metaphoric use of space in expertlay interaction about | 91 |
CHAPTER 5 | 109 |
Four observations on openings in calls to Kids Help Line | 133 |
CHAPTER 8 | 177 |
Constructing and negotiating advice in calls to a poison | 207 |
CHAPTER 10 | 237 |
The helpline call as a language game | 257 |
CHAPTER 12 | 287 |
Multiparty management and interactional | 309 |
| 347 | |
Managing identities | 153 |
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Calling for help : language and social interaction in telephone helplines Carolyn D. Baker No preview available - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
action activity advice advice-giving agent agent-trajectory agoraphobia call centres call-takers caller callers display Cambridge University Press client consumers context contrary themes Conversation Analysis counsellor CT's describe Discourse dispatchers doctor Emmison ethnography Ethnomethodology everyday example Extract Firth format formulation frame switch Garfinkel giving Harvey Sacks hello helpdesk helpline calls Heritage Eds indicates initial instance institutional instructions interac interface issue Jefferson Kids Help Line language game listening mycke narrative negotiation NHS Direct niet nurses okay organisation participants pharmacist problem description Psathas question relevant reported request response role Sacks Schegloff sequence Social Interaction solution solve specific star sign strategy structure subgoal sumers switch talk task technical telephone tion Troubles-Telling turn utterance VCTEL warm line Whalen yeah Zimmerman СТ
References to this book
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology Carla Willig,Wendy Stainton-Rogers No preview available - 2007 |