The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction: 3 Volume Set

Language and social interaction is a globally thriving international and interdisciplinary area of research, forming a crucial area of teaching, especially at the graduate level. The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction reflects this global importance with a valuable, distinctive reference work for students and academics with international contributions from leading scholars. It successfully brings into a single source explication of all of the fascinating and ground–breaking work in the area that is developing globally and across a broad range of subjects.

This sub–disciplinary international encyclopedia builds on the success of the existing 12–volume International Encyclopedia of Communication and is closely linked to it in content and usage. It includes nearly 200 entries on the subject of language and social interaction with three main points of focus: Theoretical Approaches to the study of LSI, Discourse Concepts/Device, and Different Kinds of Discourses, which provide an overview of what has been learned about LSI in diverse social scenes. Under the expert guidance of editor Karen Tracy, the encyclopedia provides state–of–the–art research within a range of fields, in a highly interactive and accessible format available both online and as a three–volume print set.

Karen Tracy is Professor and Chair of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Professor Tracy is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and a Distinguished Scholar at the National Communication Association. She is a past editor of the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction; her most recent books includie Challenges of Ordinary Democracy (2010) and Everyday Talk (with J.S. Robles, 2013).