Reception and Response

Introduction Graham McGregor and R.S. White Part 1: Contexts of Responsiveness 1. Attending the Hearing: Listening in Legal Settings Peter Goodrich 2. Therapeutic Listening Richard G. Tedeschi 3. 'Listening In': Negotiating Relationships Between Listeners and Presenters on Radio Phone-in Programmes Deborah Cameron and Deborah Hills 4. Who is Context? John Pellowe Part 2: Listener Response and Communication 5. Eavesdropper Response and the Analysis of Everyday Communicative Events Graham McGregor 6. Accomodating Troubles-talk: The Management of Elderly Self-disclosure Nikolas Coupland, Karen Henwood, Justine Coupland and Howard Giles 7. The Interpreter as Listener: An Observation of Response in the Oral Mode of Translating Ian Mason 8. Responsive Listening as Part of Religious Rhetoric: The Case of Black Pentecostal Preaching Christine Callender and Deborah Cameron Part 3: Responsive Readers 9. Where Interpretation Stops Robert Sharpe 10. 'You Will Use My Words to Make Your Own Meaning': Listening to Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter Christine Devonshire and Susan Cordwell 11. Responding to the Word: Problems and Pitfalls in Interpreting the Bible Mark Corner 12. The Birth of the Reader R. S. White