Selected Research Papers

Jefferson, Gail (1973) 'A case of precision timing in ordinary conversation: overlapped tag-positioned address terms in closing sequences', Semiotica 9: 47-96

Jefferson, Gail (1974) 'Error correction as an international resource', Language in Society 2: 181-99

Jefferson, Gail (1978) 'Sequential aspects of story telling in conversation'. In: J.N. Schenkein, ed., Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. New York: Academic Press: 213-48

Jefferson, Gail (1978) 'What's in a "Nyem"?', Sociology 12: 135-9

Jefferson, Gail (1979) 'A technique for inviting laughter and its subsequent acceptance/declination'. In: George Psathas, ed., Everyday language: studies in ethnomethodology. New York: Irvington: 79-96

Jefferson, Gail (1980) 'On "trouble-premonitory" response to inquiry', Sociological Inquiry 50: 153-85

Jefferson, Gail (1981) 'Caveat speaker'. Final report SSRC (mimeo)

Jefferson, Gail (1983) 'On exposed and embedded correction in conversation'. Studium Linguistik, 14: 58-68

Jefferson, Gail (1984) 'On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters'. In: Atkinson, J. Maxwell, John Heritage, eds. Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 191-222

Jefferson, Gail (1984) 'On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles'. In: Atkinson, J. Maxwell, John Heritage, eds. Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 346-69

Jefferson, Gail (1984) 'Notes on a systematic deployment of the acknowledgement tokens "Yeah" and "Mm hm"', Papers in Linguistics 17: 197-206

Jefferson, Gail (1985) 'On the interactional unpacking of a "gloss"', Language in Society 14: 435-66

Jefferson, Gail (1985) 'An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter'. In: T.A. van Dijk,ed. Handbook of discourse analysis. London: Academic Press. Vol. 3: 25-34

Jefferson, Gail (1986) 'Notes on 'latency' in overlap onset', Human Studies 9: 15384

Jefferson, Gail (1987) 'On exposed and embedded correction in conversation'. In: Button, Graham, J.R.E. Lee, eds., Talk and social organisation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 86-100

Jefferson, Gail (1988) 'On the sequential organization of troubles talk in ordinary conversation'. Social Problems 35: 418-41

Jefferson, Gail (1989) 'Preliminary notes on a possible metric which provides for a 'standard maximum' silence of approximately one second in conversation'. In: Roger, D., Peter Bull, eds., Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 166-96

Jefferson, Gail (1990) 'List-construction as a task and a resource'. In: George Psathas, eds. Interaction Competence. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America: 63-92

Jefferson, Gail (1993) 'Caveat speaker: Preliminary notes on recipient topic-shift implicature', Research on language and social interaction 26: 1-30

Jefferson, Gail (1996) 'A case of transcriptional stereotyping', Journal of Pragmatics 26: 159-70

Jefferson, Gail (1996) 'On the Poetics of Ordinary Talk', Text and Performance Quarterly 16:11-61.

Jefferson, Gail (2002) 'Is ''no'' an acknowledgment token? Comparing American and British uses of (+)/(-) tokens', Journal of Pragmatics 34: 1345-1383

Jefferson, Gail (2003) 'A Note on Resolving Ambiguity'. In: Phillip Glenn, Curtis D. LeBaron, Jenny Mandelbaum, eds. Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In honor of Robert Hopper. Mahweh, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum: 221-40

Jefferson, Gail (2004) 'Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction'. In: Gene H. Lerner, ed. Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 13-31

Jefferson, Gail (2004) A sketch of some orderly aspects of overlap in natural conversation'. In: Gene H. Lerner, ed. Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 43-59

Jefferson, Gail (2004)'"At first I thought": A normalizing device for extraordinary events'. In: Gene H. Lerner, ed. Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 131-67

Jefferson, Gail (2007) 'Preliminary notes on abdicated other-correction', Journal of Pragmatics 39/3: 445-461

Jefferson, Gail, John R.E. Lee, (1981) 'The rejection of advice: managing the problematic convergence of a "TroublesTelling" and a "Service Encounter"', Journal of Pragmatics 5: 399-422

Jefferson, Gail, Harvey Sacks, Emanuel A. Schegloff (1987) 'Notes on laughter in the pursuit of intimacy'. In: Button, Graham, J.R.E. Lee, eds., Talk and social organisation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 152-205

Jefferson, Gail, Jim Schenkein (1977) 'Some sequential negotiations in conversation: unexpanded and expanded versions of projected action sequences', Sociology 11: 87103 (also in: J.N. Schenkein, ed., Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. New York: Academic Press (1978): 155-72)

Sacks, Harvey (1992) Lectures on conversation. 2 vols. Edited by Gail Jefferson with introductions by Emanuel A. Schegloff. Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson (1974) 'A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation', Language 50: 696-735

Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson (1978) 'A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation'. In: J.N. Schenkein, ed., Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. New York: Academic Press: 7-55 (1974)

Schegloff, Emanuel A., Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks (1977) 'The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation', Language 53: 361-82

To download many of Gail Jefferson's papers, go to the Web page that Gene Lerner created for Gail's publications: www.liso.ucsb.edu/Jefferson/