Profile

Biography

• PhD (Lancaster)
• BA (Exeter)
  

Paul Drew graduated in Sociology and Politics from the University of Exeter (1970), and studied for his PhD at the University of Lancaster (1977). He has taught at the University of York since 1973, with periods in visiting positions at the Universities of South Carolina (1980); Tilburg, NetherlanJuly 26, 2010 Lund , Sweden (1996); Odense , Denmark (1999); and Xerox PARC, Palto Alto (2001-2004). He regularly lectures, teaches graduate and researcher training workshops in CA, and teaches short courses and summer schools, both in the UK and internationally. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Helsinki .

He has undertaken consultancy work for Xerox Corporation PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre, California ), the ( London ) Metropolitan Police Service, and the Department of Work and Pensions.

He is editor, with John Gumperz, of Cambridge University Press's series Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics.

Research

Overview

Professor Paul Drew is a leading scholar internationally in Conversation Analysis and its application to the study of language, interaction and communication. He is the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication, an interdisciplinary grouping of scholars in the University researching aspects of language and language use. His research and teaching focuses on:

• The basic processes of ordinary conversation and social interaction, such as repair, topic organization, and how social actions (e.g. requesting, complaining) are conducted through talk.
• Language and interaction in institutional settings such as medical consultations (doctor-patient interaction), criminal court trials, emergency and non-emergency calls to the police, and classroom teaching.

Publications

Selected publications

• Drew,P, Toerien,M. Irvine,A. and Sainsbury,R. (2010) A Study of Language and Communication Between Advisers and Claimants in Work Focused Interviews. HMSO, DWP Research Report 633.
• Drew, P. and Walker, T. (2010) Requesting assistance in calls to the police. In M.Coulthard and A.Johnson (eds.) Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. Routeledge: 95-110.
• J.Local, P.Auer & P.Drew (2010) Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation. In Dagmar Barth-Weingarten et al. eds., Prosody in Interaction. Benjamin: 131-160.
• P.Drew (2010) Commentary. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (special issue on medical interactions), 20:2: 303-305.
  Curl, T. and Drew, P. (2008) Contingency and action: a comparison of two forms of requesting. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 41: 1-25.
• Drew, P. (2006) Mis-alignments between caller and doctor in ‘out-of-hours’ telephone calls to a British GP's practice. In Heritage. J. and Maynard, D. (eds.) Communication in Medical Care: Interaction between Primary Care, pp. 416-44.
• Drew, P. and Heritage, J. (Eds) (2006) Conversation Analysis (4 volumes). London, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series.
• Drew, P. (2006) When documents ‘speak’: documents, language and interaction. In Drew, P., Raymond, G. and Weinberg, D. (eds.) Talking Research: Talk-in-Interaction in Research Methodologies. London, Sage Publications, pp. 98-122.
• Drew, P. (2004) Conversation analysis. In Fitch, K. and Sanders, R. (eds.) Handbook of Language and Social Interaction, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 71-102.
• Drew, P. (2003) Precision and exaggeration in interaction. American Sociological Review, 68: 917-938.
• Drew, P. (1992) Contested evidence in a courtroom cross examination: the case of a trial for rape. In Drew, P. and Heritage, J. (eds.) Talk at Work: Social Interaction in Institutional Settings. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 470-520.
• Drew,P. (2002) Out of context: an intersection between domestic life and the workplace, as contexts for (business) talk. Language and Communication, 22: 477-494.
• Drew, P. and Holt, E. (1998) Figures of speech: figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation. Language in Society, 27: 495-523.
• Drew, P. (1987) Po-faced receipts of teases. Linguistics, 25: 219-253.
• Drew, P. and Wootton, A. (Eds.) (1988/1995) Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order. Cambridge, Polity Press.
• Drew, P. and Atkinson, J.M. (1979) Order in Court: Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings. London, Macmillan.