Ian Hutchby

lectures in Sociology and Communication Studies in the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University.

His research centres upon three interrelated areas: interpersonal communication, media discourse, and the role of technology in communication. This has involved studies of the management of live interaction on television and radio (such as interviews, phone-ins and audience participation shows); the nature and limits of interactive technologies (telephones, expert systems, speech-based computers, and the world wide web); and the social competencies, linguistic and interactional skills of young children. He has published numerous articles and books in these areas. He is currently engaged on an ESRC-funded study of children's discourse in the context of counselling for family separation.

Address:

Ian Hutchby
Department of Human Sciences
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH
Email: Ian.Hutchby@brunel.ac.uk

 

Published books include:

Confrontation Talk: Arguments, Asymmetries and Power on Talk Radio (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996);

Children and Social Competence: Arenas of Action (Falmer Press, 1997) (with J. Moran-Ellis);

Conversation Analysis (Polity Press, 1998) (with Robin Wooffitt);

Conversation and Technology: The Telephone, the Computer and the Nature of Human Communication (Polity Press, in press)

Children, Technology and Culture (Routledge, in press) (with J. Moran-Ellis).

 

Some recent articles are:

'Aspects of recipient design in expert advice-giving on call-in radio.' Discourse Processes, 19 (1995), 219-238;

'Power in discourse: The case of arguments on a British talk radio show. 'Discourse and Society, 7 (1996), 481-498;

‘Building alignments in public debate: A case study from British TV.’ Text, 17 (1997), 161-179;

'Frame attunement and footing in the organisation of talk radio openings.' Journal of Sociolinguistics, 3 (1999), 41-64;

'Beyond agnosticism: Conversation analysis and the sociological agenda.' Research on Language and Social Interaction. Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction Research at the Century’s Turn (1999), 85-93;

'Rhetorical strategies in audience participation debates on radio and TV.' Research on Language and Social Interaction, 32 (1999), 243-267;

'Power in discourse.' In N. Coupland and A. Jaworski (eds.), The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge, 1999;

'Confrontation as a spectacle: The argumentative frame of an American talk show.' In A. Tolson (ed.), The Talk Show Phenomenon. New Jersey: Erlbaum, in press.

 

Ian Hutchby is a member of the editorial board of Research on Language and Social Interaction, Associate Research Fellow in the Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology at Brunel University, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.