Publications and more

Bilmes, J. (forthcoming). Delineating categories in verbal interaction. Discourse Studies. 

Bilmes, J. (2021). Organizing talk with contrasts: Nixon and Colson discuss Watergate. Journal of Pragmatics, 175, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.01.004

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Bilmes, J. (2021). “What if someone said…?”: Invented counterexamples. Academia Letters, 460, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL460

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Bilmes, J. (2020). From ethnosemantics to occasioned semantics: The transformative influence of Harvey Sacks. In R. J. Smith, R. Fitzgerald, & W. Housley (Eds.), On Sacks: Methodology, materials and inspirations (pp. 47–61). Routledge.

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Bilmes, J. (2020). The discussion of abortion in US political debates: A study in occasioned semantics. Discourse Studies, 22(3), 291–318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445620906026

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Bilmes, J. (2019). Regrading as a conversational practice. Journal of Pragmatics, 150, 80–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.020

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Bilmes, J. (2015). The structure of meaning in talk: Explorations in category analysis. Volume I: Co-categorization, contrast, and hierarchy. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

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Bilmes, J. (2014). Preference and the conversation analytic endeavor. Journal of Pragmatics, 64, 52–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.01.007

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Bilmes, J. (2012). Truth and proof in a lawyer's story. Journal of Pragmatics, 44(12), 1626–1638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.07.001

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Bilmes, J. (2011). Occasioned semantics: A systematic approach to meaning in talk. Human Studies, 34(2), 129–153.

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Bilmes, J. (2010). Scaling as an aspect of formulation in verbal interaction. Language Learning and Socialization through Conversations, 3–9.

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Bilmes, J. (2009). Kinship categories in a Northern Thai narrative. In H. t. Nguyen & G. Kasper (Eds.), Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives (pp. 29–56). National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaiʻi.

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Bilmes, J. (2009). Taxonomies are for talking: Reanalyzing a Sacks classic. Journal of Pragmatics, 41(8), 1600–1610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.008

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Bilmes, J. (2008). Generally speaking: Formulating an argument in the US Federal Trade Commission. Text & Talk, 28(2), 193–217. https://doi.org/10.1515/TEXT.2008.009

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Abe, K., Aceto, M., Agha, A., Ahearn, L., Anderson, B., Arundale, R. B., . . . Zimmerman, D. (2006). Language in Society: Editor's note. Language in Society, 35(5), 799–800. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404506060362

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Bilmes, J. (2005). The call-on-hold as conversational resource. Text & Talk, 25(2), 149–170. https://doi.org/10.1515/text.2005.25.2.149

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Bilmes, J. (2003). Heavy duty responses. In A. Firth (Ed.), Language travels: A festschrift for Torben Vestergaard (pp. 115–129). Aalborg University Press.

 

Bilmes, J. (2001). Tactics and styles in the 1992 vice presidential debate: Question placement. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 34(2), 151–181. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327973RLSI34-2_1

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Bilmes, J. (1999). Questions, answers, and the organization of talk in the 1992 vice presidential debate: Fundamental considerations. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 32(3), 213–242. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327973RL320301

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Bilmes, J. (1998). Two models of villager-official relationships in Northern Thailand. Tai Culture, 3, 108–118.

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Bilmes, J. (1997). [Review of the book Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology, by M. Billig]. 8, 279–280.

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Bilmes, J. (1997). Being interrupted. Language in Society, 26(4), 507–531. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500021035

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Bilmes, J. (1996). Le silence constitué. La vie dans un monde de plénitude de sens [Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning](L. July, Trans.). Réseaux, 14(80), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.3406/reso.1996.3806 (Original work published 1994)

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Bilmes, J. (1996). Problems and resources in analyzing Northern Thai conversation for English language readers. Journal of Pragmatics, 26(2), 171–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(96)00011-2

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Bilmes, J. (1996). Villages and officials: Toward a model of Northern Thai village social organization. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies, 7, 1–12.

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Bilmes, J. (1995). Dividing the rice II: Achieving agreement. In L Bilmes, A. C. Liang, & W. Ostapirat (Eds.), Proceedings of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special session on discourse in Southeast Asian languages. Berkeley Linguistics Society. https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v21i2.1376

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Bilmes, J. (1995). Negotiation and compromise: a microanalysis of a discussion in the United States Federal Trade Commission. In A. Firth (Ed.), The discourse of negotiation (pp. 61–81). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-042400-2.50009-1

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Bilmes, J. (1995). On cultural oversensitivity and other anthropological sins. Essays on Culture and Communication, 7–16.

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Bilmes, J. (1995). On the believability of Northern Thai spirit mediums. Journal of the Siam Society, 83(1), 231–238.

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Bilmes, J. (1994). Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning. Semiotica, 98(1-2), 73–88. https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.73

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Bilmes, J. (1993). Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature: Toward an empirical pragmatics. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 3(4), 387–409. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.3.4.02bil

 

Bilmes, J. (1992). Referring to internal occurrences: A reply to Coulter. The Journal of Social Behavior, 22(3), 253–262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.1992.tb00219.x

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Bilmes, J. (1992). Dividing the rice: A microanalysis of the mediator's role in a Northern Thai negotiation. Language in Society, 21(4), 569–602. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500015736

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Bilmes, J. (1992). Mishearings. In G. Watson & R. Seiler (Eds.), Text in context: Contributions to ethnomethodology (pp. 79–98). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.2307/2075799

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Bilmes, J. (1991). Toward a theory of argument in conversation: The preference for disagreement. In

F. H. Van Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J. A. Blari, and C. A. Willard (Eds.), Proceedings of the second international conference on argumentation. International Centre for The Study of Argumentation Amsterdam, Sicsat.

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Bilmes, J., & Woodbury, J. (1991). Deterrence and justice: Setting civil penalties in the Federal Trade Commission. Research in Law and Economics, 14, 191–221.

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Bilmes, J. (1989). A Northern Thai mediation. Program on Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Bilmes, J. (1988). [Review of the book Talking culture: Ethnography and conversation analysis, by M. Moerman]. 47(4), 942–943.

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Bilmes, J. (1988). Category and rule in conversation analysis. IPrA Papers in Pragmatics, 2(1–2), 25–59. https://doi.org/10.1075/iprapip.2.1-2.02bil

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Bilmes, J. (1988). The concept of preference in conversation analysis. Language in Society, 17(2), 161–181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500012744

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Amerine, R., & Bilmes, J. (1988). Following instructions. Human Studies, 327–339 (Reprinted from “Following instructions,” 1984, Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 6, 81–87)

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Bilmes, J. (1986). Discourse and behavior. Plenum Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2040-9

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Bilmes, J. (1985). Freedom and regulation: An anthropological critique of free market. Research in Law & Economics, 7, 123–147.

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Bilmes, J. (1985). Rejoinder to Ault and Rutman's comment. Research in Law and Economics, 7, 157–158.

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Bilmes, J. (1985). “Why that now?" Two kinds of conversational meaning. Discourse Processes, 8(3), 319–355. https://doi.org/10.1080/01638538509544620

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Bilmes, J. (1984). [Review of the book Language and social knowledge: Uncertainty in interpersonal relations, by C. R. Berger and J. J. Bradac]. Language in Society, 13, 87–90. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740450001592X

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Bilmes, J. (1982). The joke's on you, Goldilocks: A reinterpretation of The Three Bears. Semiotica, 40, 269–283. https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.269

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Bilmes, J. (1981). [Review of the book Classifications in their social context, by R. F. Ellen and D. Reason]. 16(2), 308–309. https://doi.org/10.2307/2801409

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Bilmes, J. (1981). Proposition and confrontation in a legal discussion. Semiotica, 34, 215–275. https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1981.34.3-4.251

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Bilmes, J. (1980). Why do Thai villagers break the wood laws? Human Organization, 39(2), 186–189. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.39.2.h13wx311277862n0

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Bilmes, J., & Howard, A. (1980). Pain as cultural drama. Anthropology And Humanism Quarterly, 5, 10–13.

 

Bilmes, J. (1979). The evolution of decisions in a Thai village: A quasi-experimental study. Human Organization, 38(2), 169–178. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.38.2.e667w27327jg1746

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Bilmes, J., & Boggs, S. T. (1979). Language and communication: The foundations of culture. In A. J. Marsella, T. Ciborowski, & R. Tharp (Eds.), Perspectives on cross-cultural psychology (pp. 47–76). Academic Press.

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Bilmes, J. (1977). The individual and his environment: A central Thai outlook. Journal of the Siam Society, 65(2), 153–162.

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Kenny, M. J., Bilmes, J., & Cooper, D. E. (1976). Alternative logic in ‘primitive thought'. Man, 11(1), 116–119.

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Bilmes, J. (1976). A note on relationships between buddhist temples in Thailand. Journal of the Siam Society, 64(2), 161–169.

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Bilmes, J. (1976). Meaning and interpretation. Semiotica, 16(2), 115–128. https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1976.16.2.115

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Bilmes, J. (1976). Rules and rhetoric: Negotiating the social order in a Thai village. Journal of Anthropological Research, 32(1), 44–57. https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.32.1.3629991

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Bilmes, J. (1975). Misinformation and ambiguity in verbal interaction: a Northern Thai example. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 13(165), 63–76. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.1975.5.63

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Bilmes, J. (1975). Misinformation in verbal accounts: Some fundamental considerations. Man, 10(1), 60–71. https://doi.org/10.2307/2801182

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Bilmes, J. (1974). [Review of the book Monks, merit, and motivation: Buddhism and national development in Thailand, by J. A. Niels Mulder]. The Journal of Asian studies, 33(4), https://doi.org/10.2307/2053168

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