of news interviews more generally). A key work here is his joint book with Steve Clayman from UCLA, with whom he teaches the course 'Talk and Social Institutions' at UCLA. More recent work has focused on the way epistemic issues—issues that relate to what speakers know and don't know—are managed in conversation. This brings together the concerns of conversation analysis with the concerns of discursive psychology. References Additional sources Atkinson, J.M. & Heritage, J. (Eds.) (1984). Structures of Social Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Clayman, S. & Heritage, J. (2002). The News Interview: Journalists and public figures on the air. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heritage, J. (1984). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Oxford: Polity Press. Heritage, J. (1984). A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Ed.). Structures of Social action. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 299-345. Heritage, J. (1998). Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry. Language in Society 27(3): 291-334. Heritage, J. (2002). Oh-prefaced responses to assessments: a method of modifying agreement/disagreement. In C. Ford, B. Fox & S. Thompson (Eds.). The Language of Turn and Sequence. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 196-224. Heritage, J. & Clayman, S. (2010). Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities and Institutions. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley. Heritage, J. & Greatbatch, D. (1986). Generating applause: a study of rhetoric and response at party political conferences. American Journal of Sociology 92, 1: 110-157. Heritage, J. & Maynard, D. (Eds.) (2006). Communication in Medical Care. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heritage,J.& Raymond, G. (2005). The Terms of Agreement: Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Assessment Sequences, Social Psychology Quarterly, 68, 15-38. Heritage, J. & Sefi, S. (1992). Dilemmas of Advice: Aspects of the Delivery and Reception of Advice in Interactions between Health Visitors and First Time Mothers (pp. 359–419) In P. Drew & J. Heritage (Eds). Talk at Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. American sociologists 1946 births Living people