Research on language and social interaction vol. 42, No. 3 2009

Esther Schely-Newman
Defining Success, Defending Failure: Functions of Reported Talk

Fabiola Scarpetta and Anna Spagnolli
The Interactional Context of Humor in Stand-Up Comedy

Søren Beck Nielsen
Accounts on the Behalf of Patients During Geriatric Case Conferences

Sigurd D'hondt
Good Cops, Bad Cops: Intertextuality, Agency, and Structure in Criminal Trial Discourse

Martine Noordegraaf, Carolus van Nijnatten and Ed Elbers
How Social Workers Start to Assess the Suitability of Prospective Adoptive Parents