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Douglas W. Maynard is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Within these broader areas, Maynard's work engages particularly with Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Philosophy, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The scientist's published works have appeared in a range of academic journals, including Sociology of Health & Illness, Annual Review of Sociology, Research on Language and Social Interaction, and Symbolic Interaction. These venues reflect a focus on interdisciplinary perspectives combining social science with language and psychological studies.

Douglas W. Maynard's recent publications include:

  • "Disorder or difference? How clinician-patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis" (2023), published in Sociology of Health & Illness
  • "Ethnomethodology's Legacies and Prospects" (2023), published in Annual Review of Sociology
  • "Transitions as a Series of Sequences: Implications in Testing for and Diagnosing Autism" (2021), published in Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • "The Human Spectrum: A Critique of "Neurodiversity"" (2024), published in Symbolic Interaction

The scientist frequently collaborates with a range of scholars, including Jason Turowetz, Lucas Z. Wiscons, John Heritage, and Adam Talkington. These collaborations align with Maynard's interests in areas such as autism spectrum disorder, language, and social interaction.

Maynard's research covers several main topics, including Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Multilingual Education and Policy, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, and Language Development and Disorders.

Best Publications

  • Communication in medical care: Interaction between primary care physicians and patients

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical Settings

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Inside Plea Bargaining

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • The Diversity of Ethnomethodology

    Douglas W. Maynard;Steven E. Clayman

  • Interaction and Asymmetry in Clinical Discourse

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Placement of topic changes in conversation

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Conversation analysis, doctor–patient interaction and medical communication

    Douglas W Maynard

  • Problems and Prospects in the Study of Physician-Patient Interaction: 30 Years of Research

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Topical talk, ritual and the social organization of relationships

    Douglas W. Maynard;Don H. Zimmerman

  • How Children Start Arguments.

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • On The Functions of Social Conflict among Children.

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • The News Delivery Sequence: Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction.

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • On realization in everyday life : the forecasting of bad news as a social relation

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Standardization and tacit knowledge : interaction and practice in the survey interview

    D.W. Maynard;J.P. Houtkoop-Steenstra;N.C. Schaeffer;J. van der Zouwen

  • Introduction: Analyzing interaction between doctors and patients in primary care encounters

    Douglas W. Maynard

  • Bad news in oncology : How physician and patient talk about death and dying without using those words

    Karen Lutfey;Douglas W. Maynard

  • Pragmatism and Ethnomethodology

    Mustafa Emirbayer;Douglas W. Maynard

  • Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge Survey Research and Ethnomethodology's Asymmetric Alternates

    Douglas W. Maynard;Nora Cate Schaeffer

  • On “Labeling” in Actual Interaction: Delivering and Receiving Diagnoses of Developmental Disabilities

    Virginia Teas Gill;Douglas W. Maynard

  • Prosodic features of bad news and good news in conversation

    Jeremy Freese;Douglas W. Maynard

  • Standardization VS. rapport: Respondent laughter and interviewer reaction during telephone surveys

    Danielle Lavin;Douglas W. Maynard

Frequent Co-Authors

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Jeremy Freese Stanford University
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Anssi Peräkylä University of Helsinki
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Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
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Carol Myers-Scotton Michigan State University
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Kendall A. King University of Minnesota
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles
Jaber F. Gubrium
Jaber F. Gubrium University of Missouri

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