[Xmca-l] Re: Chuck Goodwin - RIP

[Marina EVERRI]

Extremely sorry to hear this. I attended his course and he was a great source
of inspiration during my phd training:(
marina


On Tue, 15 May 2018 10:50:05 -0700, mike cole wrote
> A valued colleague and friend from whom many of us learned a lot and
> are still learning.
>
> mike
>
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>
> Charles Goodwin
> May 7, 2018
>
> *Charles (Chuck) Goodwin* died on March 31, 2018, in Los Angeles,
>  the city where he was born on October 9, 1943, and where he
> returned in 1996 when he was hired at the University of California,
>  Los Angeles, in the Department of Applied Linguistics.  In 2017 he
> retired as Distinguished Professor of Communication.
>
> >From an early age Goodwin showed an aptitude and passion for photography, a
> medium that he later combined with video and computer technology to capture
> and represent the unfolding semiotics of talk, gestures, and tool-
> use. After graduating from Holy Cross, where he studied English
> literature, and a year spent at the New York University School of
> Law, Goodwin went to the Annenberg School of Communication at the
> University of Pennsylvania. There, he was exposed to cybernetics by
> his advisor, Klaus Krippendorff, and to the study of face-to-face
> communication through his job as a research associate and filmmaker
> in the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic where Gregory Bateson’s
> “systems theory” was being applied to family therapy. During
> this time Goodwin also met his future wife Marjorie (Candy) Harness,
> whose advisor was Erving Goffman, and he began to attend the latter’s
> courses, which were also attended by Gail Jefferson and William Labov.
>
> In 1976, Chuck and Candy Goodwin joined the department of
> anthropology at the University of South Carolina. Candy was
> completing her dissertation on Black children’s verbal virtuosity
> and argumentation, which debunked popular stereotypes of the
> difference between boys and girls’ speaking styles.  The turn-by-
> turn analysis made possible by her data played a crucial role in the
> Goodwins embracing conversation analysis, which Chuck revolutionized
> by demonstrating the importance of visual access to the interactive
> construction of speakers’ turns and utterances in his 1977 dissertation.
>
> Chuck Goodwin was an extraordinarily prolific scholar, whose many
> publications include his 1994 article “Professional Vision,” the
> most cited article published to date in the *American
> Anthropologist*. Goodwin’s international fame as an original
> scholar and gifted lecturer was evidenced by countless invitations
> to be a plenary speaker at conferences around the world and by two
> degrees of doctor of philosophy honoris causa from Linköping
> University and Aalbord University.
>
> His remarkable 2018 book *Co-operative Action*
>
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cooperative-action/409E1455713D43131F04C3F6B6815FF7>
>  brings together a lifetime body of research and provides an empirically
> informed theory on human interaction as the systematic, creative
> reuse of what was just performed by other co-participants.
>
> One of the universally recognized qualities of Goodwin’s character
> as a scholar was his openness to other people’s ideas and research
> interests. His world-renowned weekly “lab” welcomed graduate
> students, colleagues from a variety of departments, and a steady
> flow of international visitors who were eager to submit their audio-
> visual data to Goodwin’s “professional vision.”
>
> On March 20, Chuck Goodwin received the news that he was the winner
> of the 2018 Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship from
> the American Sociological Association, a well-deserved recognition
> of his exceptional contributions to ethnomethodology and
> conversation analysis, two of the many fields impacted by his
> creative genius. (*Alessandro Duranti*)
>
> Cite as: Duranti, Alessandro. 2018. “Charles Goodwin.” *Anthropology
> News*website,
> May 7, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/AN.849
>
> --
> A man's mind-what there is of it- has always the advantage of being
> masculine, - as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the
> most soaring palm, - and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.
> ---George Eliot


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