Virginia Teas Gill and Felicia Roberts: Visiting Scholars in Sociology

Visiting Scholars in Sociology, Fall 2011

Virginia Teas Gill is Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. During the Fall 2011 semester she is on sabbatical at UW-Madison, where she is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Sociology. A conversation analyst, Professor Gill studies interaction between physicians and patients. She has a particular interest in the interactional practices patients and physicians use to offer, press for, and resist interpretations of illness, as well as patients' requests for medical interventions. She is a former Co-Chair of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and is currently Finance Officer for the International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). With Alison Pilnick and Jon Hindmarsh, she recently co-edited the volume, Communication in Healthcare Settings: Policy, Participation and New Technologies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Dr. Gill's faculty page at Illinois State University:
http://sociologyanthropology.illinoisstate.edu/profiles/default.aspx?q=BM200809310019




Felicia Roberts is Associate Professor of Communications at Purdue, where she is also a member of the Program in Linguistics. Dr. Roberts' primary interest is conversation analysis, understanding the coordinated verbal and nonverbal practices that construct everyday and institutional life. Her research crosses contexts from doctor-patient encounters to parent-child interaction, to veterinarians managing people and their pets. Ongoing interests in language attitudes, perception of non-standard speakers, language variation and change.

Representative Publications

• Roberts, F. (in press). Qualitative approaches to clinician-patient communication In D.W. Kissane B.D. Bultz, Butow, P. & Finlay, I. (Eds.) Handbook of Oncology and Palliative Care. Oxford University Press.
• Roberts, F., Wilson, Delaney, J. & Rack, J. (2009). Interactional patterns as indicators of trait verbal aggressiveness. In D. Cahn (Ed.) Family Violence: Communication Processes, pp. 155-178. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• Roberts, F., Francis, A.L., Morgan, M. (2006). The interaction of inter-turn silence with prosodic cues in listener perceptions of "trouble" in conversation. Speech Communication, 48, 1079-1093.
• Balog, H. L. & Roberts, F. (2004). Perception of utterance relatedness during the first-word period. Journal of Child Language, 31, 837-854.
• Roberts, F. & Robinson, J.D. (2004). Inter-observer agreement on '"first-stage" conversation analytic transcriptions. Human Communication Research, 30, 376-410