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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Margaret L McLaughlin; Michael J Cody; Stephen J Read |
| ISBN: | 0805807993 9780805807998 |
| OCLC Number: | 24173756 |
| Description: | xxii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The nature of social explanations. Constructing accounts: the role of explanatory coherence / Stephen J. Read -- The use of prototypical explanations in first- and third-person accounts / Roger Lamb and Mansur Lalljee -- The study of causal explanation in natural language: analyzing reports of the Challenger disaster in The New York Times / Denis J. Hilton, Rainer H. Mathes, and Thomas R. Trabasso -- An economy of explanations / John McClure -- Lay explanations / Adrian Furnham -- A conversation approach to explanation, with emphasis on politeness and accounting / William Turnbull -- Excuses in everyday interaction / Bernard Weiner -- Explanations and social contexts. Legal fictions: telling stories and doing justice / Lance Bennett -- The account episode in close relationships / Frank D. Fincham -- Explanation as legitimation: excuse-making in organizations / Robert J. Bies and Sim B. Sitkin -- Alternative knowledge sources in explanations of racist events / Philomena Essed -- The social-interactive aspects of account-giving / Michael J. Cody and David O. Braaten -- Storytelling as collaborative reasoning: co-narratives in incest case accounts / Karin Aronsson and Claes Nilholm -- What went wrong: communicating accounts of relationship conflict / Ann L. Weber, John H. Harvey, and Terri L. Orbach -- Accounting for failure to follow advice: real reasons versus good explanations / Margaret L. McLaughlin ... [et al.]. |
| Series Title: | Communication (Hillsdale, N.J.) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Margaret L. McLaughlin, Michael J. Cody, Stephen J. Read. |
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