Publications
Volumes
2022 Stivers, T. The Book of Answers: Alignment, Autonomy, and Affiliation in Social Interaction. Oxford University Press. LINK
2021 Stivers, T & McCabe, R. (Eds.) Dueling at the Clinic. Special Section of Social Science & Medicine, 290.
2017 Stivers, T. & Barnes, R.K. (Eds.) Treatment Recommendations Actions, Contingencies
and Responses. Special Issue of Health Communication.
2012 Sidnell, J. & Stivers, T. (Eds.) The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Blackwell-Wiley. LINK
2011 Stivers, T., Mondada, L. & Steensig, J. (Eds.) The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation.
Cambridge University Press. LINK
2010 Stivers, T., Enfield N.J. & Levinson, S.C. (Eds.) Question-Response Sequences in 10 languages.
Special Issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, 42(10). LINK
2007 Enfield, N.J. & Stivers, T. (Eds.) Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural, and Social
Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. LINK
2007 Stivers, T. Prescribing Under Pressure: Physician-Parent Conversations and Antibiotics. Oxford
University Press. LINK
2005 Sidnell, J. & Stivers, T. Multimodal Interaction. Special Issue of Semiotica, 156. LINK
Papers
Under Review Rossi, G., Stivers, T. & Chalfoun, A. The accountability of unarticulated actions.
Under Review Miao, Grace & Stivers, T. Activity transitions and argumentation: A use of growth charts in pediatric consultations.
In press Chalfoun, A, Rossi, G. & Stivers, T. The magic word: Face-work and the functions of "Please" in everyday requests. Social Psychology Quarterly.
2024 Stivers, T., Chalfoun, A. & Rossi, G. To err is human but to persist is diabolical: Reproaching departures in social interaction. Frontiers in Sociology -- Sociological Theory, 9, LINK
2024 Timmermans, S., Stivers, T., McArthur, A. & Cox, K. Patients in pain: How treatment plan formulations shape patient response. Communication and Medicine, 19(2), 137-151. PDF
2023 Stivers, T. & Tate, A. The role of healthcare communication in treatment outcomes. Annual Review of Linguistics, 9, 233-252. PDF
2022 Stivers, T, Rossi, G., & Chalfoun, A. Ambiguities in action ascription. Social Forces. PDF
2021 Stivers, T. Managing patient pressure to prescribe antibiotics in the clinic. Pediatric Drugs, Aug 19, 1-7. PDF
2021 Stivers, T. & McCabe, R. Dueling in the clinic: When patients and providers disagree about healthcare recommendations. Social Science & Medicine, 290.
2021 Stivers, T. & Timmermans, S. Arriving at no: Patient pressure to prescribe antibiotics and physicians' responses, Social Science & Medicine. LINK
2021 Stivers, T. Is conversation built for two? The partitioning of social interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 54(1), 1-19. PDF
2021 Rossi, G. & Stivers, T. Category-Sensitive Actions in Interaction. Social Psychology Quarterly, 84(1), 49-74. PDF
2020 Stivers, T. & Timmermans, S. Authority under siege: Transforming resistance into
acceptance through persuasion. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. PDF
2018 Timmermans, S. & Stivers, T. Clinical forecasting: Towards a sociology of prognosis. Social Science & Medicine, 218, 13-20. PDF
2018 Enfield, N.J., Stivers, T., Brown, P., Englert, C., Harjunpää, K., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T.,
Hoymann, G., Keisanen, T., Rauniomaa, M., Raymond, C.W., Rossano, F., Yoon, K.-E.,
Zwitserlood, I. & Levinson, S. Polar Answers. Journal of Linguistics, 55, 277-304 . PDF
2018 Stivers, T. How we manage social relationships through answers to questions: The case of
interjections. Discourse Processes, 56(3), 191-209. PDF
2018 Stivers, T., Sidnell, J. & Bergen, C. Children’s responses to questions in peer interaction: A
window into the ontogenesis of interactional competence. Journal of Pragmatics, 124, 14-30.
2017 Stivers, T. & Barnes, R.K. Treatment recommendation actions, contingencies and responses: An
Introduction. Health Communication. PDF
2017 Stivers, T., Heritage, J., Barnes, R.K., McCabe, R., Thompson, L., Toerien, M. Treatment
recommendations as actions. Health Communication. PDF
2017 Bergen, C., Stivers, T., Barnes, R.K., Heritage, J., McCabe, R., Thompson, L. & Toerien, M. Closing the
deal: A cross-cultural comparison of treatment resistance. Health Communication. PDF
2017 Timmermans, S. & Stivers, T. The social utility of clinical exome sequencing. Patient Education
and Counseling. PDF
2017 Stivers, T. & Timmermans, S. The actionability of exome sequencing testing results. Sociology of
Health & Illness 39(8), 1542-1556. PDF
2017 Stivers, T. & Timmermans, S. Always look on the bright side of life: Making bad news
bivalent. Research on Language in Social Interaction, 50(4), 404-418. PDF
2017 Timmermans, S. & Stivers, T. The spillover of genomic testing results in families: Same variants,
different logics. Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 58(2) 166-180. PDF
2016 Stivers, T. & Timmermans, S. Negotiating the diagnostic uncertainty of genomic test results. Social
Psychology Quarterly 79(3), 199-221. PDF
2016 Stivers, T. & Sidnell, J. Proposals for collaboration in social interaction. Research on Language in Social
Interaction 49(2),148-166. PDF
2016 Raymond, C.W. & Stivers, T. The omnirelevance of accountability: Off-record account solicitations.
In J.D. Robinson (Ed.) Accountability in Social Interaction, pp 321-353. PDF
2015 Stivers, T. Coding Social Interaction: A Heretical Notion in Conversation Analysis? Research on
Language in Social Interaction 48(1), 1-19. PDF
2014 Sicoli, M., Stivers, T., Enfield, N.J. & Levinson, S.C. Marked initial pitch in questions signals marked
communicative function. Language & Speech 58(2), 204-223. PDF
2013 Bergen, C. & Stivers, T. Patient disclosure of medical misdeeds. Journal of Health & Social Behavior,
52(2), 220-239. PDF
2012 Logue, D. & Stivers, T. Squawk in interaction: A primer of Conversation Analysis for students of
animal communication. Behaviour, 149, 1283-1298. PDF
2012 Stivers, T. & Rossano, F. Mobilizing response in interaction: A compositional view of questions. In J.P.
de Ruiter (Ed.) Questions: Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 58-80.
2012 Stivers, T. & Sidnell, J. Introduction. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.) The Handbook of Conversation
Analysis. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1-8. PDF
2012 Stivers, T. Sequence Organization. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.) The Handbook of Conversation
Analysis. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 191-209.
2012 Heritage, J. & Stivers, T. Conversation Analysis in Sociology. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.) The
Handbook on Conversation Analysis. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 659-673.
2012 Stivers, T. Physician-Child Interaction: When Children Answer Physicians' Questions in Routine
Medical Encounters. Patient, Education and Counseling, 87, 3-9 Epub 2011 Aug. 3. PDF
2011 Stivers, T. Socializing children into the patient role. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs & B. Schieffelin (Eds.)
Handbook on Language Socialization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 247-267.
2011 Stivers, T., Mondada, L., Steensig, J. Knowledge, Morality and Affiliation in Social Interaction. In T.
Stivers, L. Mondada & J. Steensig (Eds.) The Morality of Knowing in Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 3-24.
2011 Stivers, T. Morality and question design: 'Of course' as contesting a presupposition of askability. In T.
Stivers, L. Mondada & J. Steensig (Eds.) The Morality of Knowing in Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 82-106. PDF
2010 Enfield, N.J., Stivers, T. & Levinson, S.C. Question-response sequences in conversation across ten
languages: An introduction. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(10), 2615-2619. PDF
2010 Stivers, T. & Enfield, N.J. A coding scheme for question-response sequences in conversation. Journal
of Pragmatics, 42(10), 2620-2626. PDF
2010 Stivers, T. An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation. Journal of
Pragmatics, 42(10), 2772-2781. PDF
2010 Heritage, J., Elliott, M.N., Stivers, T., Richardson, A. & Mangione-Smith, R. Reducing Inappropriate
Antibiotics Prescribing: The Role of Online Commentary on Physical Examination Findings. Patient
Education and Counseling, 81, 119-125. PDF
2010 Stivers, T. & Rossano, F. Mobilizing Response. Research on Language in Social Interaction, 43(1), 1-31.
2010 Stivers, T. & Rossano, F. A Scalar View of Response Relevance. Research on Language in Social
Interaction, 43(1), 49-56. PDF
2010 Stivers, T & Hayashi, M. Transformative answers: One way to resist a question’s constraints. Language
in Society, 39(1), 1-25. PDF
2009 Stivers, T., Enfield, N.J., Brown, P., Englert, C., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoyman, G., Rossano, F., de
Ruiter, J.P. Yoon, K. & Levinson, S.C. Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10587-92. PDF supplement
2008 Stivers, T. Stance, alignment and affiliation during story telling: When nodding is a token of
preliminary affiliation Research on Language in Social Interaction, 41, 29-55. PDF
2007 Stivers, T. & Majid, A. Questioning children: Interactional evidence of implicit racial bias in medical
interviews. Social Psychology Quarterly, 70, 424-441. PDF
2007 Stivers, T. Alternative recognitionals in person reference. In N.J. Enfield & T. Stivers (Eds.) Person
Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural, and Social Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pp. 73-96. PDF
2007 Stivers, T., N.J. Enfield & S.C. Levinson. Person Reference in Interaction. In N.J. Enfield & T. Stivers
(Eds.) Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural, and Social Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 1-20. PDF
2006 Mangione-Smith, R, Elliott, M.N., Stivers, T., McDonald, L.L., & Heritage, J. Ruling out the need for
antibiotics: Are we sending the right message? Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 160 945-952.
2006 Stivers, T. The interactional process of reaching a treatment decision in acute medical encounters. In
J. Heritage & D. Maynard (Eds.) Communication in Medical Care: Interactions between Primary Care
Physicians and Patients. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 279-312. PDF
2006 Stivers, T. & Robinson, J.D. A preference for progressivity in interaction. Language in Society 35(3)
367-392. PDF
2005 Stivers, T. and Sidnell, J. Introduction: Multi-Modal Interaction. Semiotica, 156(1/4) 1-20. PDF
2005 Stivers, T. Parent resistance to physicians’ treatment recommendations: One resource for initiating a
negotiation of the treatment decision. Health Communication, 181 (1) 41-74. PDF
2005 Stivers, T. Modified Repeats: One Method for Asserting Primary Rights from Second Position.
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 38(2), 131-158. PDF
2005 Stivers, T. Non-antibiotic treatment recommendations: Delivery formats and implications for parent
resistance. Social Science & Medicine, 60(5). 949-964. PDF
2004 Stivers, T. [English translated to Finnish by Sanna Vehviläinen] Potilaan vastarinta: keino vaikuttaa
lääkärin hoitopäätökseen [Patient Resistance: One Way Patients Shape Treatment Decisions].
Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti [Journal of Social Medicine], 41, 199-213. PDF
2004 Mangione-Smith, R., Elliott, M.N., Stivers, T., McDonald, L., Heritage, J., and McGlynn, E. Racial/Ethnic
variation in parent expectations for antibiotics: Implications for public health campaigns. Pediatrics,
113(5) e385-394. PDF
2004 Stivers, T. ‘No no no’ and other types of multiple sayings in social interaction. Human Communication
Research 30(2), 260-293. PDF
2003 Stivers, T., Mangione-Smith, R., Elliott, M. N., McDonald, L., and Heritage, J. Why do physicians think
parents expect antibiotics? What parents report vs what physicians believe. The Journal of Family
Practice 52(2), 140-147. PDF
2003 Mangione-Smith, R., Stivers, T., Elliott, M.N., McDonald, L., and Heritage, J. Online commentary during
the physical examination: A communication tool for avoiding inappropriate antibiotic prescribing?
Social Science & Medicine 56(2), 313-320. PDF
2002 Stivers, T. Participating in decisions about treatment: Overt parent pressure for antibiotic medication
in pediatric encounters. Social Science & Medicine 54 (7), 1111-1130. PDF
2002 Stivers, T. 'Symptoms only' and 'Candidate diagnoses': Presenting the problem in pediatric
encounters. Health Communication 14 (3), 299-338. PDF
2001 Stivers, T. & Heritage, J. Breaking the sequential mould: Narrative and other methods of answering
"More than the question" during medical history taking. Text 21 (1), 151-185. PDF
2001 Stivers, T. Negotiating who presents the problem: Next speaker selection in pediatric encounters.
Journal of Communication 51 (2), 1-31. PDF
2001 Robinson, J. & Stivers, T. Achieving activity transitions in primary-care encounters: From history
taking to physical examination. Human Communication Research 27 (2) 253-298. PDF
1999 Heritage, J. & Stivers, T. Online commentary in acute medical visits: A method of shaping patient
expectations. Social Science & Medicine 49(11); 1501-1517. PDF
1998 Stivers, T. Prediagnostic commentary in veterinarian-client interaction. Research on Language and
Social Interaction 31 (2); 241-277. PDF
1996 Hayes, B. & Stivers, T. The phonetics of postnasal voicing, Working Papers Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA. PDF