Ian Hutchby

Ian Hutchby is Professor of Communication in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Brunel University. His research specializes in conversation analysis, and has involved studies of the management of live interaction on television and radio (such as interviews, phone-ins and audience participation shows) and the nature and limits of communications technologies (telephones, expert systems, speech-based computers, the internet and mobile communications devices).

Address:

Ian Hutchby
School of Social Sciences and Law
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH
Email: Ian.Hutchby@brunel.ac.uk

Relevant publications:

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

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

Conversation and Technology: From the Telephone to the Internet (Polity, 2001)

Media Talk: Conversation Analysis and the Study of Broadcasting (Open University Press, 2006)

‘The organisation of talk on talk radio.’ In P. Scannell (ed.), Broadcast Talk. (Sage, 1991)

‘The pursuit of controversy: Routine scepticism in talk on “talk radio”.’ Sociology, 26 (1992), 673-694

‘Confrontation talk: Aspects of “interruption” in argument sequences on talk radio.’ Text, 12 (1992), 343-371

'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

'Confrontation as a spectacle: The argumentative frame of the Ricki Lake show.' In A. Tolson (ed.), Television Talk Shows: Discourse, Performance, Spectacle. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001)

‘Technologies, texts and affordances.’ Sociology, 35 (2001), 441-456

‘Conversation analysis and the study of broadcast talk.’ In R. Sanders and K. Fitch (eds.), Handbook of Language and Social Interaction (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004)

‘News talk: Interaction in the broadcast news interview.’ In S. Allan (ed.) Journalism: Critical Issues (Open University Press, 2005)

‘Aspects of the sequential organisation of mobile phone conversation.’ Discourse Studies, 7 (2005), 147-171 (with Simone Barnett)