Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research, recognizing the admirable motives advocated in the methodology put forth in the article and suggesting the need to address additional issues. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method of empowering research subjects can go seriously wrong and that no linguistic research can be driven by ideas of empowering or disempowering alone. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. This comment suggests that understanding research talk can be facilitated by knowing something about the larger group of speech activities of which it is but one normal representative form. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Responds to various positive and negative comments on an article focusing on power and method in linguistic research and describing a method for empowering research participants. (VWL)

Introduces a special issue that includes papers which focus on the relationship between prosody and conversation. The papers represent different research traditions (e.g., the ethnomethodological framework of dialog analyses and report case studies, quantitative study of large corpora, experimental research using elicited or constructed speech…

Explicates two closely related metaphors about communication in everyday discourse that lead to a picture of communication as an indeterminate process for sharing subjective meanings. Demonstrates the tacit utilization of these metaphors by the Michigan State tradition of compliance-gaining research through examination of both their theory and…

Argues that the most productive future directions for theory building and research in applied linguistics derive from the extent to which the field's investigators can enrich their conceptual framework and methods with insights from "constructivist" scholarly approaches. Focus is on three arenas in which such approaches and additional scholarship…

Responds to a previous article on constructive and constructivist challenges for applied linguistics. (Author/JL)

Argues that some of the difficulties encountered in research on bilingualism cold be avoided if methodological and conceptual issues are closely monitored. (Author/VWL)

The goal of this epilogue is to use the methodological contributions of the studies presented in this special issue as a starting point for suggestions about methodology in conducting future interaction research. As is the case in most developing fields, interaction research develops methods internally as it continually borrows and extends…

Research assumptions and procedures of two studies of interlanguage (IL) phonology are examined and criticized. In both studies, syllable structure is used as a primary variable, but opposing claims are made about "open" and "closed" IL syllable structure preference. It is argues that: (1) neither IL study considers sufficiently the phonetic…

Applicative Universal Grammar (AUG) is a linguistic theory based on combinatorial logic. This paper expands on the notion of "linguistic unit." Linguistic unit, as a notion, is generalized and the linguistic hierarchy supporting all natural languages is shown to be a hierarchy of linguistic units. It is argued that, on the genotype…