Ceci Ford

Cecilia E. Ford, Professor

Department of English
University of Wisconsin
Madison WI 53706

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Publications

Books and Edited Collections

  • 2004 Sound Patterns in Interaction. E. Couper- Kuhlen and C.E. Ford (Eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • 2002 The Language of Turn and Sequence. Oxford University Press. Edited with Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson. 290 pp.
  • 1996 Interaction-Based Studies of Language. Special Issue of Pragmatics 6.3:277-456, Edited with Johannes Wagner.
  • 1993 Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations. Cambridge University Press. 165 pp.

Articles and Book Sections

  • 2004 "Getting past no": sequence, action and sound production in the projection of no-initiated turns. In Sound Patterns in Interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins. With B. A. Fox and J. K. Hellermann.
  • 2004 Contingency and units in interaction. Discourse Studies 6(1) 27-52.
  • 2003 Social interaction and grammar. In The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume 2. Michael Tomasello (Ed.). London: Erlbaum. With Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson. 119-144.
  • 2002 Denial and the construction of conversational turns. In Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse. J. Bybee and M. Noonan (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 61-78.
  • 2002 Constituency and the grammar of turn increments. In The Language of Turn and Sequence. With Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson. 14-38.
  • 2002 Introduction. In The Language of Turn and Sequence. With Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson. With B. Fox and S. Thompson. 3-13.
  • 2001 At the intersection of turn and sequence: Negation and what comes next . In Studies in Interactional Linguistics, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Margret Selting (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 51-79.
  • 2000 The treatment of contrasts in interaction. In Cause, Condition, Concession and Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives, Bernd Kortmann and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), in the series Topics in English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 283-311.
  • 1999 Collaborative construction of task activity: Coordinating multiple resources in a high school physics lab. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 32 (4) 369-408
  • 1997 Speaking conditionally: Some contexts for if-clauses in conversation. In On Conditionals Again, A. Athanasiadou and R. Dirven (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 387-413.
  • 1996 Practices in the construction of turns: The 'TCU' revisited. Pragmatics 6.3:427-454. With Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson.
  • 1996 Interactional motivations for reference formulation: He had. This guy had, a beautiful, thirty-two O:lds. In Studies in Anaphora, B. Fox (Ed.). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 145-68. With B. Fox.
  • 1996 Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns. In Interaction and Grammar, Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson (Eds.). Cambridge: University Press. 134-184. With S.A. Thompson.
  • 1994 Dialogic aspects of talk and writing: because on the interactional-edited continuum. TEXT 14.4:531:54.
  • 1994 Causal markers in Japanese and English conversations: A cross linguistic study of interactional grammar. Pragmatics 4.1:31-61. With Junko Mori.
  • 1992 Variation in the intonation and punctuation of different adverbial clause types in spoken and written English. In The Linguistics of Literacy, P. Downing, S. Lima and M. Noonan (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 4-16.
  • 1988 The distribution of when-clauses in English conversation: constraints derived from a data source. In Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Linguistics Conference, S. DeLancey and R. Tomlin (Ed). University of Oregon. 103-119.
  • 1987 Overlapping relations in text structure. In Proceedings of the Second Annual Pacific Linguistics Conference, S. DeLancey and R. Tomlin (Eds.). University of Oregon. 107-123.
  • 1986 Conditionals in discourse: a text-based study from English.. In On Conditionals, Elizabeth Traugott et al. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. (353-372) With S. Thompson.
  • 1984 The influence of speech variety on teachers' evaluation of students with comparable academic ability. TESOL Quarterly 18(1):25-40.
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Reviews

  • 2001 Review of Language in Time: The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction, by Peter Auer, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Frank Müller. For Language in Society.
  • 1994 Review of Verb Forms and Alternations, by Beth Levin. For Studies in Second Language Acquisition 17:1.
  • 1992 Review of Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey V.IV. Frederick Newmeyer (Ed.) For Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 412-413.
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Technical Reports and Instructional Materials

  • 1998 Interactional Practice as Academic Skill: Co-Construction in a high school physics laboratory task, National Center on English Language Learning and Achievement, Wisconsin Center for Educational Research. 64 pp.
  • 1998 Negotiating relevance: a piece in the puzzle of academic talk. In English Update: A Newsletter from the Center on English Learning and Achievement, Winter. (3 pp.). Reprinted in The Newsletter of the American Association for Applied Linguistics 21.2
  • 1997 Analyst eyes and camera eyes: Theoretical and technical considerations in "seeing" the details of classroom interaction, Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, Center on English Language and Achievement. With J. Zuengler and C. Fassnacht.
  • 1995 Learning Face-to-Face. University of Wisconsin Instructional Materials Development Center, funded by the Knapp Bequest and the Office of the Chancellor. (with S. Magnan, R. Young, and J. Zuengler)
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Scholarly Presentations and Participation in Academic Meetings

Featured Colloquia, Keynote Addresses and Invited Participation in Scholarly Meetings
  • 2005 Invited plenary for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Amsterdam.
  • 2005 Invited participant in the NorFA Workshop on Reference, Helsinki, June 11-16, 2005
  • 2003 Invited participant in the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT, acronym of Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap – [National Graduate School of Linguistics]).
  • 2003Universiteit van Tilburg. Special intensive Ph.D.-level introduction to theories and methods in Grammar and Interaction.
  • 2003 “Pragmatic projection and the place of ‘action’ in turn construction,” Invited paper for the Panel on Turn continuations in cross-linguistic perspective. International Pragmatics Association Conference. Toronto. July. With S.A. Thompson.
  • 2003 “Turn construction and the discourse and grammar research agenda,” Invited presentation for a panel on Discourse and Grammar, organized by Deborah Tannen for the 2003 Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics.
  • 2003 “A dialogue on ‘pragmatic projection’: Units of language and the emergence of turn trajectories from sequences,” Invited colloquium for Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • 2002 “Linguistic perspectives on multi-unit turn construction,” Invited plenary for the EuroConference on Interactional Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland. Sponsored and funded by the European Scientific Foundation.
  • 2002 “Action projection in conversation” Invited Lecture and Workshop, University of Konstanz, Germany.
  • 2000 “Pragmatic projection in turn construction,” Invited plenary for the EuroConference on Interactional Linguistics, Spa, Belgium. Sponsored and funded by the European Scientific Foundation.
  • 2000 Keynote address, “Conversation analysis and the study of language in/as interaction”, International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Parasession on Discourse and Grammar. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
  • 2000 “Language in Interaction: Methodological Challenges.” Invited organizer for featured discourse analysis colloquium on American Association of Applied Linguistics Meeting 2000. Vancouver, B.C.
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Other Recent Conference Participation

  • 2004 Panel organizer, "CA as Applied Linguistics: Crossing Boundaries of Discipline and Practice." Paper contribution: "'Having our ideas ignored' : CA and a Feminist Project" American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland OR.
  • 2003 “The fate of "ideas"- Gender and language in academic meetings: Combining research with a commitment to institutional change.” Presented at Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research: A Conference of the International Gender and Language Association. Michigan State University.
  • 2002 Panel organizer of “Phonetics and prosody in interaction: Current methods and findings.” Presentation, “Getting past ‘NO’: Sound production and action in turn-initial negations.” International Conference on Conversation Analysis,” Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 2001 Organizer. Language and Interaction Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison. With guest lecturer, Barbara Fox (U Colorado) and international participation.
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