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Douglas Macbeth

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1990
Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningMultilingual Education and Policy

Publications

37

Citations

1,849

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

36

Publishing since 1990

Research summary
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Douglas Macbeth studies how people use everyday talk and conversation to build shared understanding, working within the tradition of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA), which examines the fine details of ordinary interaction and discourse. His recent work focuses on foundational and methodological questions within this field, including debates over how analysts study talk and how transcripts represent spoken interaction.

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA)Discourse and language analysisTranscription and representation of talkEpistemics in interactionMethodological debates in qualitative research

Publication output was minimal for several years in the middle of the last decade but has picked up recently, with new work appearing in 2024 and 2025.

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Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.0/year recently
1718192020: 1 publication202122232024: 2 publications242025: 3 publications32526
Recent publications
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  • Ethnographic Studies×4
  • Discourse Studies×3
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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