Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Faculty Profile
Richard Buttny
Professor
PhD., University of Massachusetts
113 Sims Hall Building V
(315) 443-5137
Email:rbuttny@syr.edu
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Courses
- CRS 284 Discourse and Society
- CRS 430/630 Intercultural Communication
- CRS 514 Language and Meaning
- CRS 601 Pro seminar in Communication
- CRS 604 Qualitative Research Methods
Research Interests
My scholarly interests are in how talk works in social interaction and how social realities are jointly created. More specifically my interests are in: accounts, reported speech, therapeutic talk, talking race, and environmental discourse and politics
Expertise: language and social interaction; intercultural communication.
Publications
Books:
Buttny, R. Talking Problems: Studies in Discursive Construction. Albany: State University of New York Press.
http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60831
Buttny, R. (1993). Social accountability in communication. London: Sage.
http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=5550
Articles in Refereed Journals:
Buttny, R. (2001). Therapeutic humor in retelling the clients’ tellings. Text, 21, 303-326.
Buttny, R., & Williams, P.L. (2000). Demanding respect: The uses of reported speech in discursive constructions of interracial contact. Discourse & Society, 11, 109-133.
Buttny, R. (1999). Discursive constructions of racial boundaries and self-segregation on campus. Journal of language and Social Psychology, 18, 247-268.
Buttny, R. (1998). Putting prior talk into context: Reported speech and the reporting context. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 31, 45-58.
Buttny, R. (1997). Reported speech in talking race on campus. Human Communication Research, 23, 475-504.
Books Chapters:
Buttny, R . (2003). Multiple voices in talking race: Pakeha reported speech in the discursive constructions of the racial other. In M.Wetherall, H.Houtkoop, & H.Van den Berg (Eds.), Analyzing interviews on racial issues: Multidisciplinary approaches to interview discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Buttny, R., & Jensen, A.J. (2002). Hot-stove league talk. In G.Gumpert & S.Drucker (Eds.), Take me out to the ballgame: Communicating Baseball. (pp.71-93). Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Buttny, R., & Morris, G.H. (2001). Accounting. In W.P.Robinson & H.Giles (Eds.), The new handbook on language and social psychology (pp.285-302). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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