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Scholarly Books
and Edited Journals
Beach, WA (2006). A
natural history of family cancer: Interactional resolutions to medical problems.
Hampton Press, Inc.
Beach, WA (Ed.) (2006).
Handbook of patient-provider interactions: Raising and responding to patients’
concerns about life
and illness. Hampton
Press, Inc.
Beach, WA (Ed.). (2001).
Lay diagnosis. Special issue of Text, 21, 13-268.
Beach, WA (1996). Conversations
about illness: Family preoccupations with bulimia. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum
Associates, Inc.
Beach, WA (Ed.). (1989).
Sequential
organization of conversational activities. Western Journal of SpeechCommunication.
53,
85-246.
Selected Articles
and Chapters
Beach,
WA (in press). Understanding how family members talk through cancer.
In B Whaley (Ed), Advancements in
Communication
Theory & Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jones, CM & Beach,
WA (in press).
Patient’s
attempts and doctors’ responses to premature solicitation of diagnostic information.
In M. Maxwell (Ed.),
Diagnosis
as a cultural practice. Mouton de Gruyter.
Good,
J.S. & Beach, W.A. (in press). Opening up gift-opening: Birthday
parties as situated activity
systems Text.
Beach,
WA & Mandelbaum, J. (2005). “My mom had a stroke”:
Understanding how patients raise and providers respond to
psychosocial
concerns. In LH Harter, PM Japp, & CM Beck (Eds), Narratives, health,
and healing: Communication
theory research.
Beach, WA,
Easter, D.E., Good, JS, & Pigeron, E. (2004). Disclosing
and responding to cancer “fears” during
oncology
interviews.
Social Science & Medicine. 60, 893-910.
Easter,
DE & Beach, WA (2004). Competent
patient care is dependant upon attending to empathic opportunities presented
during
interview sessions. Current Surgery, 61, 313-318.
Beach,
WA & Andersen, J. (2004). Communication
and cancer? Part II: Conversation analysis. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology,
21,
1-22.
Beach,
WA & Good, JS (2004). Uncertain
family trajectories: Interactional consequences of cancer diagnosis, treatment,
and
prognosis.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21, 9-35.
Beach,
WA & Lockwood, A (2003). Making the
case for airline compassion fares: The serial organization of problem
narratives
during
a family crisis. Research
on Language and Social Interaction, 36, 351-393.
Beach,
WA & Andersen, J (2003). Communication
and cancer? Part I: The noticeable absence of interactional research.
J of
Psychosocial
Oncology, 21, 1-23.
Beach,
WA (2002). Phone openings, ‘gendered’
talk, and conversations about illness. In J Mandelbaum, P Glenn, & C
LeBaron
(Eds).
Studies in language and social interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper
(573-588). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Beach,
WA (2002). Managing optimism. In J Mandelbaum,
P Glenn & C LeBaron (Eds.). Studies in language and social
interaction:
In Honor of Robert Hopper (175-194). Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
Beach,
WA & LeBaron, C (2002).
Body disclosures:
Attending to personal problems and reported sexual abuse during a
medical
encounter. Journal of Commmunication, 52, 617-639.
Beach,
WA (2002). Between dad and son: Initiating, delivering,
and assimilating bad cancer news. Health Communication, 14,
271-299.
Beach,
WA & Dixson, C. (2001). Revealing
moments: Formulating understandings of adverse experiences in a Health
Appraisal
interview. Social Science & Medicine, 52, 25-45.
Beach, WA (2001). Stability and ambiguity:
Managing uncertain moments when updating news about mom’s cancer. Text,
21,
221-250.
Beach,
WA (2001). Introduction: Diagnosing lay diagnosis. Text, 21, 13-18.
Beach,
WA (2000). Inviting
collaborations in stories about a woman. Language in Society,29,
379-407.
Beach,
WA & Metzger, TR (1997). Claiming insufficient knowledge. Human
Communication Research, 23, 562-588.
Metzger,
TR & Beach, WA (1996). Preserving
alternative versions: Interactional techniques for organizing courtroom cross-
examination.
Communication Research, 23, 749-765.
Beach,
WA (1995). Preserving and constraining
options: "Okays" and `official' priorities in medical interviews.
In GH Morris &
RJ
Cheneil (Eds). The talk of the clinic: Explorations in the analysis of
medical and therapeutic discourse (pp.259-289).
Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Beach,
WA (1995). Maps and diggings. In S.J. Sigman (ed.).
The consequentiality of communication (pp. 223-226). Hillsdale,
NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Beach,
WA (1995). Conversation
analysis: "Okay" as a clue for understanding consequentiality.
In SJ Sigman (ed.). The
consequentiality
of communication (pp.121-162). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc,
Inc.
Jones,
CM & Beach, WA (1995). Therapists'
techniques for responding to unsolicited contributions by family members.
In
GH Morris & RJ Cheneil
(Eds). The talk of the clinic: Explorations in the analysis of medical
and therapeutic
discourse
(pp.49-70). >Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Beach,
WA (1994). Orienting to the phenomenon. In FL
Casmir (Ed). Building communication theories: A socio-cultural
approach
(pp.133-164). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Beach,
WA (1994). Relevance and consequentiality. Western Journal of
Communication, 58, 51-57.
Beach,
WA (1993). Transitional regularities for 'casual' "Okay" usages. Journal
of Pragmatics, 19, 325‑352
Beach,
WA (1993). The delicacy of preoccupation. Text and Performance Quarterly,
13, 299‑312.
Beach,
WA & Lindstrom, AK (1992).
Conversational
universals and comparative theory: Turning to Swedish and American
acknowledgement
tokens‑in‑interaction. Communication Theory, 2, 24‑49.
Beach,
WA (1991). Searching
for universal features of conversation. Research on Language and Social
Interaction, 24, 349-
366.
Beach,
WA (1991).
Avoiding ownership for alleged wrongdoings. Research on
Language and Social Interaction, 24, 1-36.
Beach, WA (1990).
On (not) observing
behavior interactionally. Western Journal of Speech
Communication, 54, 603‑612.
Beach, WA (1990). Orienting to the phenomenon.
In J.A. Anderson (Ed.), Communication yearbook 13 (pp. 216‑244).
Beverly
Hills,
CA: Sage Publications.
Beach,
WA (1990). Language as and in technology: Facilitating
topic organization in a videotex focus group meeting. In MJ
Medhurst
(Ed.), Communication and the culture of technology (pp. 197-220). Pullman,
WA: Washington State
University
Press.
Beach,
WA (1989). Foreword:
Sequential organization of conversational activities. Western Journal
of Speech
Communication,
53, 85‑90.
Beach,
WA (1988). Talking in groups: Understanding conversational structure. In
Robert S.Cathcart and Larry
A. Samovar
(Eds.),
Small group communication: A reader (5th Edition) (pp.320-332). Dubuque,
IA: William C. Brown, Co.
Beach, WA (1988). Organizing
courtroom contexts: Interactional resolutions to intercultural troubles. In
Larry A.
Samovar
and Richard E. Porter (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader
(5th Edition) (pp.
200‑206). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth
Publishing Co.
Beach, WA (1985). Temporal
density in courtroom interaction: Constraints on The recovery of past events in
legal
discourse. Communication
Monographs, 52, 1‑18.
Beach,
WA (1983). Background understandings and the situated accomplishment of
conversational
telling‑expansions.
In Bob Craig and Karen Tracy (Eds.), Conversational coherence: Form,structure,
& strategy (pp.
196‑221).
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Beach, WA & Japp, P.M. (1983).
Storifying as time-traveling: The knowledgeable
use of temporally structured discourse. In
Robert
N. Bostrom (Ed.), Communication yearbook 7 (pp. 867‑888). Beverly
Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Beach, WA &
Dunning, D.G. (1982). Pre‑indexing and conversational organization.
Quarterly Journal of Speech,
68, 170‑185.
Beach, WA (1982). Everyday
interaction and its practical accomplishment: Progressive developments in ethno
methodological
research. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 68, 314‑327.