Social Accountability in Communication

Foreword/Introduction and Preview/Social Accountability and the Practical Necessity for Accounts/A Reading of the Accounts Literature/A Conversation Analytic Constructionist Perspective on Accounts/Accounts Analysis/Methods and Methodological Issues/Blame-Accounts Sequences in Couple Therapy/Accountability for Relational Problems/Discursive Affect in Situations of Social Accountability/The Social Accountability of Zen Understanding/Teacher-Student Interviews in a North American Zen Monastery/Social Accountability Practices during a Welfare Interview/Diverging Accounts Repeated Problems and Ascriptions of Responsibility/Accounts and Accountability Practices in News Interviews/Conclusion/Social Accountability Practices in Contexts