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Overview

Marjorie Harness Goodwin is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, with a primary focus on social sciences and arts and humanities. The subfields include language and linguistics, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, linguistics and language, and general health professions.

The researcher's work covers a spectrum of topics, predominantly exploring language, discourse, and communication strategies. Other main topics include language, metaphor, and cognition; multilingual education and policy; qualitative research methods and ethics; mental health and patient involvement; action observation and synchronization; and posthumanist ethics and activism.

Goodwin has published extensively in several academic venues. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Social Interaction Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
  • Text and Talk
  • Discourse Studies
  • Annual Review of Anthropology
  • Langage et société

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Goodwin include:

  • "The face of noncompliance in family interaction" (2020), Text and Talk
  • "Interaction rituals and 'social distancing': New haptic trajectories and touching from a distance in the time of COVID-19" (2020), Discourse Studies
  • "Touch and Social Interaction" (2021), Annual Review of Anthropology
  • "Researcher participation, ethics, and cameras in the field" (2021), Social Interaction Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
  • "Forms of Touch during Medical Encounters with an Advanced Heart Failure (AdHF) Doctor who Practices Relational Medicine" (2020), Social Interaction Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Goodwin include:

  • Julia Katila
  • Yumei Gan
  • Sara A. Goico
  • Asta Čekaitė
  • Lorenza Mondada

Best Publications

  • He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization Among Black Children

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Gesture and coparticipation in the activity of searching for a word

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin;Charles Goodwin

  • Concurrent operations on talk: Notes on the interactive organization of assessments

    Charles Goodwin;Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Cognition and communication at work: Seeing as situated activity: Formulating planes

    Charles Goodwin;Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • The hidden life of girls: Games of stance, status, and exclusion.

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Participation, affect, and trajectory in family directive/response sequences

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Context, Activity and Participation

    Charles Goodwin;Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Children's arguing

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin;Charles Goodwin

  • Assessments and the Construction of Context

    Charles Goodwin;Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Aggravated correction and disagreement in children's conversations

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Calibration in directive/response sequences in family interaction

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin;Asta Cekaite

  • Emotion within Situated Activity

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin;Charles Goodwin

  • he-said-she-said: formal cultural procedures for the construction of a gossip dispute activity

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Emotion as stance

    Marjorie Goodwin;Asta Cekaite;Charles Goodwin

  • Exclusion in Girls' Peer Groups: Ethnographic Analysis of Language Practices on the Playground

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • Multi-Modality in Girls' Game Disputes

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin;Charles Goodwin;Malcah Yaeger-Dror

  • “Whatever (Neck Roll, Eye Roll, Teeth Suck)”: The Situated Coproduction of Social Categories and Identities through Stancetaking and Transmodal Stylization

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin;H. Samy Alim

  • Seeing as a Situated Activity: Formulating Planes*

    Charles Goodwin;Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • The Hidden Life of Girls

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin

  • He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children

    Elizabeth E. Wein;Marjorie Harness Goodwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Abigail J. Stewart
Abigail J. Stewart University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Barbara Rogoff
Barbara Rogoff University of California, Santa Cruz
Bennett I. Bertenthal
Bennett I. Bertenthal Indiana University

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