Jeffrey D. Robinson (MA, Communication, University of Southern California, 1992; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1999) is professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Portland State University, and an affiliate professor of radiation medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University. Previously, he held positions in the Departments of Communication at Penn State University and Rutgers University. His primary research field is Conversation Analysis, together with its applications in the field of medicine, including primary care and oncology. He has published widely in journals such as Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, Pediatrics, Annals of Family Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

• 1. Accountability in Social InteractionJeffrey D. Robinson Section 1: Accountability and Trouble 2. On Failure to Understand What the Other is Saying: Accountability, Incongruity, and MiscommunicationPaul Drew & Claire Penn 3. Defending Solidarity: Self-Repair on Behalf of Other-AttentivenessDouglas W. Maynard 4. Delicate matters: Embedded Self-Correction as a Method for Adjusting Possibly Available Inapposite HearingsJenny Mandelbaum Section 2: Accountability, Stance, and Status 5. Political Positioning Sequences: The Nexus of Politicians, Issue Positions, and the Sociopolitical LandscapeSteven E. Clayman 6. Epistemic Asymmetry and Accountability in Service InteractionSeung-Hee Lee 7. Subjective Assessments: Managing Territories of Experience in ConversationKaoru Hayano Section 3: The Accountability of Action 8. IncrementsEmanuel A. Schegloff 9. The Accountability of Proposing (vs. Soliciting Proposals of) ArrangementsJeffrey D. Robinson & Heidi Kevoe-Feldman 10. When Speakers Account for their Questions: Ani-Prefaced Accounts in Korean ConversationStephanie Hyeri Kim 11. The Omnirelevance of Accountability: Off-Record Account SolicitationsChase Wesley Raymond & Tanya Stivers

an interesting read on a topic in want of further investigation. It provides very rich theoretical grounding for the study of accountability in interaction, based on various types of interaction, practices, and three different languages.