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D-Index
50
Citations
19076
World Ranking
2683
National Ranking
1299

Overview

Tanya Stivers is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities and Health Professions, with notable contributions in several subfields such as General Health Professions, Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The scientist's work addresses multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare

Notable recent papers by Tanya Stivers include:

  • "Medical Authority under Siege: How Clinicians Transform Patient Resistance into Acceptance," 2020, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • "Arriving at no: Patient pressure to prescribe antibiotics and physicians' responses," 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • "Managing Patient Pressure to Prescribe Antibiotics in the Clinic," 2021, Pediatric Drugs
  • "Is Conversation Built for Two? The Partitioning of Social Interaction," 2021, Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • "Ambiguities in Action Ascription," 2022, Social Forces

Their frequent coauthors include Giovanni Rossi, Andrew Chalfoun, Stefan Timmermans, Alexandra Tate, and Rose McCabe. Collaboration with these researchers appears to be significant, reflecting contributions across multiple published works.

The most common publication venues for Tanya Stivers are:

  • Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Social Psychology Quarterly
  • Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Pediatric Drugs

Best Publications

  • Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation

    Tanya Stivers;Nicholas J. Enfield;Penelope Brown;Christina Englert

  • Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation

    Tanya Stivers

  • The handbook of conversation analysis

    Jack Sidnell;Tanya Stivers

  • The Handbook of Conversation Analysis: Sidnell/The Handbook of Conversation Analysis

    Jack Sidnell;Tanya Stivers

  • Mobilizing Response

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  • Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;Lorenza Mondada;Jakob Steensig

  • A preference for progressivity in interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation

    Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;Lorenza Mondada;Jakob Steensig

  • Introduction: Multimodal interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Jack Sidnell

  • Online commentary in acute medical visits: a method of shaping patient expectations.

    Tanya Stivers

  • Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: empathic moments in interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Lorenza Mondada;Jakob Steensig

  • Transformative answers: One way to resist a question's constraints

    Tanya Stivers;Makoto Hayashi

  • An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation

    Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers

  • Modified Repeats: One Method for Asserting Primary Rights From Second Position

    Tanya Stivers

  • “No no no” and Other Types of Multiple Sayings in Social Interaction

    Tanya Stivers

  • Parent resistance to physicians' treatment recommendations: One resource for initiating a negotiation of the treatment decision

    Tanya Stivers

  • Breaking the sequential mold: Answering 'more than the question' during comprehensive history taking*

    Tanya Stivers

  • Person reference in interaction: Linguistic, cultural, and social perspectives

    N. J. Enfield;Tanya Stivers

  • Prescribing under Pressure: Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics

    Tanya Stivers

  • A coding scheme for question-response sequences in conversation

    Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;N. J. Enfield

  • Participating in decisions about treatment: overt parent pressure for antibiotic medication in pediatric encounters.

    Tanya Stivers

Frequent Co-Authors

N. J. Enfield
N. J. Enfield University of Sydney
Stefan Timmermans
Stefan Timmermans University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Marc N. Elliott
Marc N. Elliott RAND Corporation
Lorenza Mondada
Lorenza Mondada University of Basel
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Jeffrey D. Robinson
Jeffrey D. Robinson Portland State University
Holger Mitterer
Holger Mitterer University of Malta

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