Publications

Books

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John Heritage and Steven Clayman,  Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities and Institutions. Boston: Blackwell.
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2006

Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds), Conversation Analysis (4 Volumes), London: Sage.
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2006

John Heritage and Douglas Maynard (eds), Communication in Medical Care: Interactions between Primary Care Physicians and Patients. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
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2002

Steven Clayman and John Heritage, The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

1992

Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds), Talk at Work, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp.x + 580.

1986

Graham Button, Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds), Interaction and Language Use, Special Double Issue of Human Studies, 9, 1986. 
  * Republished 1991 as an edited collection by University Press of America [Lanham, MD].

1984

J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage (eds), Structures of Social Action, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press; Paris, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984.

1984

John Heritage, Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology, Cambridge and New York, Polity Press, 1984, pp.viii + 336.
  * Finnish Translation: Harold Garfinkel ja Etnometodologia. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 1996.

Journal Articles and Chapters

frth Steven Clayman and John Heritage (frth). 'Question design as a comparative and historical window into president-press relations.' In Markku Haakana, Minna Laakso and Jan Lindstrom (ed.) Talk in Interaction: Comparative Dimensions. Helsinki.
frth John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis as an Approach to the Medical Encounter.' NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research/New England Research Institute.
frth Steven Clayman, Marc Elliott, John Heritage and Megan Beckett (frth). 'A Watershed in White House Journalism: Explaining the Post-1968 Rise of Aggressive Presidential News.' Political Communication
frth John Heritage and Geoffrey Raymond, 'Navigating epistemic Landscapes: Acquiescence, Agency and Resistance in Responses to Polar Questions.' In Jan Peter de Ruiter (ed.) Questions.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2010 John Heritage, 'Territories of Knowledge, Territories of Experience: Empathic Moments in Interaction.' In Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada and Jakob Steensig (eds.) The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010 John Heritage, 'Questioning in Medicine.' In Alice Freed and Susan Ehrlich (eds). "Why Do You Ask?": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse, New York: Oxford University Press, pp.42-68.
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2009 John Heritage, 'Negotiating the legitimacy of medical problems: A multi-phase concern for patients and physicians.' In Dale Brashers and Deana Goldsmith (eds.)  Communicating to Manage Health and Illness. New York: Routledge, pp.147-164.
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2009 Kelly Haskard, Robin DiMatteo and John Heritage, 'Affective and Instrumental Communication in Primary Care Interactions: Predicting the Satisfaction of Nursing Staff and Patients.'  Health Communication 24:21-32.
2008 Ignasi Clemente, Seung-Hee Lee and John Heritage, 'Children in chronic pain: Promoting pediatric patients' symptom accounts in tertiary care.' Social Science and Medicine 66:1418-1428.
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2008 Kelly Haskard, Summer Williams, Robin DiMatteo, John Heritage and Robert Rosenthal, 'The Provider's Voice: Patient Satisfaction and The Content filtered Speech of Nurses and Physicians in Primary Medical Care.'  Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 32:1-20.
2008 John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis as Social Theory.'  In Bryan Turner (ed) The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Oxford: Blackwell, p.300-320.
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2008
John Heritage, 'Constructing and Navigating Epistemic Landscapes.' The Journal of Studies in Contemporary Sociological Theory 2:14-25. (in Japanese)
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2007 John Heritage, Jeffrey Robinson, Marc Elliott, Megan Beckett and Michael Wilkes, 'Reducing patients' unmet concerns in primary care: the difference one word can make.' Journal of General Internal Medicine 22(10): 1429-1433.
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2007
Steven Clayman, John Heritage, Marc Elliott and Laurie McDonald, 'When does the watchdog bark?: Conditions of Aggressive Questioning in Presidential News Conferences,' American Sociological Review 72: 23-41.
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2007
John Heritage, 'Intersubjectivity and progressivity in references to persons (and places).' In Tanya Stivers and N.J.Enfield (eds.),  Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.255-280.
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2006 Paul Drew and John Heritage, 'Editors' Introduction'. In Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds.) Conversation Analysis (Volume 1), London: Sage, pp. xxi-xxxvii.
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2006 Derjung M. Tarn, John Heritage, Debora A. Paterniti, Ron D. Hays, Richard L. Kravitz and Neil S. Wenger, 'Physician communication when prescribing new medications.' Archives of Internal Medicine, 166: 1855-1862.
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2006

Rita Mangione-Smith, Marc Elliott, Tanya Stivers, Laurie McDonald, and John Heritage, 'Ruling out the need for antibiotics: Are we sending the right message?' Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 160: 945-952.
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2006 Steven Clayman, Marc Elliott, John Heritage and Laurie McDonald, 'Historical Trends in Questioning Presidents, 1953-2000', Presidential Studies Quarterly 36(4): 561-583.
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2006

Geoffrey Raymond and John Heritage, 'The Epistemics of Social Relationships: Owning Grandchildren', Language in Society, 35(5):677-705. 
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2006
Jeffrey Robinson and John Heritage, 'Physicians' Opening questions and Patients' Satisfaction.' Patient Education and Counseling, 60: 279-285.
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2006
John Heritage and Douglas Maynard, 'Introduction: Analyzing primary care encounters.' In John Heritage and Douglas Maynard (Ed.),Communication in Medical Care: Interactions between Primary Care Physicians and Patients. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p.1-21.
2006

John Heritage and Jeffrey Robinson, 'Accounting for the visit: giving reasons for seeking medical care', in J.Heritage and D.Maynard (eds), Communication in Medical Care: Interactions between Primary Care Physicians and Patients. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.48-85.

2006

Elizabeth Boyd and John Heritage, 'Taking the Patient's Medical History: Questioning During Comprehensive History Taking', in J.Heritage and D.Maynard (eds), Communication in Medical Care: Interactions between Primary Care Physicians and Patients. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.151-184.

2006

John Heritage and Douglas Maynard, 'Problems and prospects in the study of doctor-patient interaction: 30 years of research in primary care.'  Annual Review of Sociology. 32: 351-374.
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2006

John Heritage and Jeffrey Robinson, 'The Structure of Patients' Presenting Concerns: Physicians' Opening Questions.' Health Communication 19(2):89-102. 
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2005

John Heritage, 'Revisiting authority in physician-patient interaction.' In Judith Duchan and Dana Kovarsky (eds), Diagnosis as Cultural Practice, New York, Mouton De Gruyter., pp.83-102. 
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2005
Jeffrey Robinson and John Heritage 'The Structure of Patients' Presenting Concerns: The Completion Relevance of Current Symptoms.'  Social Science and Medicine 61(2):481-493.
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2005

John Heritage and Geoffrey Raymond, 'The Terms of Agreement: Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Assessment Sequences', Social Psychology Quarterly, 68:15-38. 
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2005

Douglas Maynard and John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis, Doctor-Patient Interaction and Medical Communication.' Medical Education 39:428-435. 
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2005

John Heritage, 'Cognition in Discourse.' In Hedwig Te Molder and Jonathan Potter (eds), Conversation and Cognition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.184-202.
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2004

John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk.' In Robert Sanders and Kristine Fitch (eds), Handbook of Language and Social Interaction. Mahwah NJ, Erlbaum: 103-146.
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2004

Rita Mangione-Smith, Marc Elliott, Tanya Stivers, Laurie McDonald, John Heritage, and Elizabeth A. McGlynn (2004). 'Racial/Ethnic Variation in Parent Expectations for Antibiotics: Implications for Public Health Campaigns.' Pediatrics 113 (5): e385-e394.
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2003
Rita Mangione-Smith, Tanya Stivers, Marc Elliott, Laurie McDonald and John Heritage (2003). 'Online commentary on physical exam findings: a communication tool for avoiding inappropriate antibiotic prescribing?' Social Science and Medicine 56(2):313-320.
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2003

John Heritage, 'Presenting Emanuel Schegloff.' In Carlo Prevignano and Paul Thibault (eds.), Discussing Conversation Analysis: Emanuel Schegloff. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003, pp.1-10.

2003

Robin DiMatteo, Jeffrey Robinson, John Heritage, Mellisah Tabbarrah and Sarah Fox (2003). 'Correspondence Among Sources of Assessment of Instrumental and Affective Care: Patients' Self Reports, Medical Records, and Audio/Videotapes of Physician-Patient Visits.' Health Communication 15(4): 393-413.
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2003

Stivers, Tanya, Rita Mangione-Smith, Marc Elliott, Laurie McDonald and John Heritage (2003). 'Why do physicians think parents expect antibiotics? What parents report vs what physicians believe.' Journal of Family Practice, 52(2): 140-148.  
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2002
John Heritage, 'Ethnosciences and their significance for conversation linguistics', in G.Antos, K.Brinker, W.Heinemann and Sven Sager (eds), Linguistics of Text and conversation: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, Berlin:De Gruyter, 2002, pp.908-919. 
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2002

John Heritage, 'Designing questions and setting agendas in the news interview.' Philip Glenn, Curtis Lebaron and Jenny Mandelbaum (eds), Studies in language and social interaction.2002, Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum, pp.57-90.

2002

John Heritage, 'The Limits of Questioning: Negative Interrogatives and Hostile Question Content.' Journal of Pragmatics, 2002, 34:1427-1446. 
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2002

John Heritage, 'Oh-prefaced responses to assessments: a method of modifying agreement/disagreement', in Cecilia Ford, Barbara Fox and Sandra Thompson (eds), The Language of Turn and Sequence, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.196-224.  
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2002

Steven Clayman and John Heritage, 'Questioning Presidents: Journalistic deference and adversarialness in the press conferences of Eisenhower and Reagan.' Journal of Communication (2002) 52(4): 749-77.  
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2001

John Heritage, 'Goffman, Garfinkel, Conversation Analysis.' In M. Wetherell, S. J. Taylor and S. J. Yates (eds), Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader. London, Sage, 2001: 47-57.

2001

John Heritage, Elizabeth Boyd and Lawrence Kleinman, 'Subverting Criteria: Precedents and their status in decisions to finance surgery.' Sociology of Health and Illness (2001) 23(5): 701-728.  
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  * Reprinted in John Hughes and Donald Light (eds), Rationing Health Care: Constructed Realities & Professional Practices. Oxford, Blackwell (2002): 149 175.

2001

John Heritage, 'Ad hoc inquiries: two preferences in the design of 'routine' questions in an open context.' In Douglas Maynard, Hanneke Houtkoop Steenstra, Nora Kate Schaeffer and Hans van der Zouwen (ed.), Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview. New York, Wiley Interscience, 2001, pp.313-333.   
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2001

Tanya Stivers and John Heritage, 'Breaking the sequential mold: answering "more than the question" during comprehensive history taking.' Text 2001, 21(1) pp.151-185.  
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1999

John Heritage, 'CA at century's end: practices of talk-in-interaction, their distributions and their outcomes' Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1999, 32(1-2), pp.69-76.

1999

John Heritage and Tanya Stivers, 'Online commentary in acute medical visits: a method of shaping patient expectations.' Social Science and Medicine, 1999, 49(11):1501-1517. 
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1998
John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk: Analyzing Distinctive Turn-Taking Systems' in S.Cmejrková, J.Hoffmannová, O.Müllerová and J.Svetlá (eds.) Dialoganalyse VI (Volume 2) (Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of IADA - International Association forDialog Analysis), Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1998, pp.3-17.
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1998

John Heritage, 'Harold Garfinkel', in Rob Stones (ed.), Key Sociological Thinkers, London: Macmillan, 1998, pp.175-188. 
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1998

John Heritage, 'Oh-prefaced Responses to Inquiry', Language in Society, 1998, 27(3):291-334. 
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1998

John Heritage and Anna Lindstrom. 'Motherhood, medicine and morality: scenes from a medical encounter,' Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1998, 31(3-4): 397-438.
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1997

John Heritage, 'Conversation analysis and institutional talk: analyzing data,' in David Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice. London: Sage, 1997, pp. 161-182.
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1997

Lawrence Kleinman, Elizabeth Boyd and John Heritage, 'Adherence to prescribed explicit criteria during utilization review: an analysis of communications between attending and reviewing physicians', Journal of the American Medical Association 278(6):497-501 (Aug 13th, 1997)
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1995

John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis: Methodological Aspects', in Uta M. Quasthoff (ed.), Aspects of Oral Communication, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1995, pp.391-418.   
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1995

John Heritage and Andrew Roth, 'Grammar and Institution: Questions and Questioning in the Broadcast News Interview.' Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1995, 28(1):1-60. 
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1994

John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen, 'Constituting and maintaining activities across sequences: and-prefacing as a feature of question design.' Language in Society, 1994, 23:1-29.   
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1992

Paul Drew and John Heritage 'Analyzing talk at work: an introduction', in Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds.), Talk at Work, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1992, pp.3-65.

1992

John Heritage and Sue Sefi, 'Dilemmas of Advice: Aspects of the Delivery and Reception of Advice in Interactions between Health Visitors and First Time Mothers', in Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds.), Talk at Work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp.359-419.

1992

John Heritage and David Greatbatch, 'On the Institutional Character of Institutional Talk: The Case of News Interview Interaction', in Deirdre Boden and Don H.Zimmerman (eds.), Talk and Social Structure, Berkeley, University of California Press 1991.

1991

John Heritage, 'Intention, Meaning and Strategy: Observations on Constraints on Interaction Analysis', Research on Language and Social Interaction, 24, 1990/1991, pp.311-332.
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1990

Charles Goodwin and John Heritage, 'Conversation Analysis', Annual Review of Anthropology, 19, 1990, pp.283-307.
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1989

John Heritage, 'Current Developments in Conversation Analysis', in Derek Roger and Peter Bull (eds.), Conversation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Avon, Multilingual Matters, 1989, pp.21-47.

1988

John Heritage, 'Explanations as Accounts: A Conversation Analytic Perspective', in Charles Antaki (ed.), Analyzing Lay Explanation: A Case Book of Methods, London, Sage, 1988, pp.127-144.
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1988

John Heritage, Steven Clayman and Don H.Zimmerman, 'Discourse and Message Analysis', in Robert Hawkins, john Wiemann and Suzanne Pingree (eds.) Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes, Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research Vol.16, 1988, pp.77-109.

1987

John Heritage, 'Ethnomethodology Apres la Lutte', D.A.R.G. Newsletter, Vol.3, 2, Fall 1987, pp.9-16.

1987

John Heritage, 'Ethnomethodology', in Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner (eds) Social Theory Today, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1987, pp.224-272.  
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1986

John Heritage and David Greatbatch, 'Generating Applause: A Study of Rhetoric and Response at Party Political Conferences', American Journal of Sociology, 92, 1986, pp.110-157.  
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1985

John Heritage, 'Recent Developments in Conversation Analysis', Sociolinguistics, 15, 1985, pp.1-19.

1985

John Heritage, 'Analyzing News Interviews: Aspects of the Production of Talk for an "Overhearing" Audience', in Teun van Dijk (ed) Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Vol.3, Discourse and Dialogue, London, Academic Press, 1985, pp.95-117.   
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1985

John Heritage, 'Ethnomethodologie: Un Defi a la Sociologie "Conventionelle"?', Societes, 1, 1985, 7-9.

1984

John Heritage and Max Atkinson, 'Introduction', in J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage (eds), Structures of Social Action, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp.1-15.

1984

John Heritage, 'A Change of State Token and Aspects of Its Sequential Placement', in J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage (eds), Structures of Social Action, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp.299-345.

1983

John Heritage, 'Accounts in Action', in Nigel Gilbert and Peter Abell (eds), Accounts and Action, Farnborough, Gower House, 1983, pp.117-131.

1983

John Heritage, 'Feminization and Unionization: A Case Study from Banking', in Eva Gamarnikow et al. (eds),  Gender, Class and Work, London, Heinemann, 1983, pp.131-148.

1980
John Heritage and Rod Watson, 'Aspects of the Properties of Formulations', Semiotica, 30, 1980, pp.245-262.
1980
John Heritage, 'Class Situation, White Collar Unionization and the "Double Proletarianization" Thesis', Sociology, 14, 1980, pp.283-294.
1979
John Heritage and Rod Watson, 'Formulations as Conversational Objects', in George Psathas (ed), Everyday Language, New York, Irvington Press, 1979, pp.123-162.
1978
John Heritage, 'Aspects of the Flexibilities of Natural Language Use', Sociology, 12, 1978, pp.79-103.
1977

John Heritage and Rod Watson, 'Recent Developments in the Sociology of Language in Britain', Sociolinguistics Newsletter, 8, 1977, pp.2-6.

1975

John Heritage, 'Community and Practicality in Sociology and Beyond', Sociology, 9, 1975, pp.329-339.

1974

John Heritage, 'Assessing People', in Nigel Armistead (ed), Reconstructing Social Psychology, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1974, pp.260-281.