Publications/Presentations

• R.E. Sanders (forthcoming). The Effect of Interactional Competence on Group Problem-Solving. In F. Cooren (Ed.), Interacting and organizing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• R.E. Sanders (2005). Introduction: LSI as Subject matter and as multidisciplinary confederation. In K.L. Fitch & R.E. Sanders (Eds.), Handbook of language and social interaction (pp. 1-14). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• R.E. Sanders (2005). Testing "observations": The methodological relevance of attention to cognition in discourse studies. In H. te Molder & J. Potter (Eds.), Discourse and cognition (pp. 57-78). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• R.E. Sanders (2003). Applying the skills concept to discourse and conversation: The remediation of performance defects in talk-in-interaction. In J. Greene & B. Burleson (Eds.), The handbook of communication and social interaction skills (pp. 221-256). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• R.E. Sanders (2003). Conversational socializing on marine VHF radio: Adapting Laughter and other practices to the technology in use. In P. Glenn, C. LeBaron, & J. Mandelbaum, (Eds.) Studies in language and social interaction (pp. 309-326). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• J.A. Bonito & R.E. Sanders (2002). Participation structure in collaborative writing episodes: Adopting footing to forestall discord or secure accord. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 35, 481-514.
  F. Cooren & R.E. Sanders (2002). Implicatures: A schematic approach. Journal of Pragmatics, 34, 1045-1067
• R.E. Sanders & K. L. Fitch (2001). The actual practice of compliance-seeking. Communication Theory, 11, 263-289.
• R.E. Sanders, K.L. Fitch, & A. Pomerantz (2000). Core research traditions within language and social interaction. In W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 24 (pp. 385-408). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• R.E. Sanders (1997). Find your partner and do-si-do: The formation of personal relationships between social beings. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 14, 387-415.
• R.E. Sanders & K.E. Freeman (1997). Children's neo-rhetorical participation in peer interactions. In I. Hutchby & J. Moran-Ellis (Eds.), Children and social competence: Arenas of action. (pp. 87-114). England: Falmer.
• R.E. Sanders (1997). The production of symbolic objects as components of larger wholes. In J. O. Greene (Ed.), Message production: Advances in communication theory (pp. 245-277). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• R.E. Sanders (1997). An impersonal basis for shared interpretations of messages in context. In J. L. Owen (Ed.), Context and communication behavior (pp. 229-250). Reno, NV: Context Press.
• R.E. Sanders (1995). The sequential-inferential theories of Sanders and Gottman. In D.P. Cushman & B Kovacic (Eds.), Watershed research traditions in human communication theory (pp. 101-136). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• R.E. Sanders (1995). A neo-rhetorical perspective: The enactment of role-identities as interactive and strategic. In S.J. Sigman (Ed.), The consequentiality of communication (pp. 67-120). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• R.E. Sanders (1995). A retrospective essay on the consequentiality of communication. In S.J. Sigman (Ed.), The consequentiality of communication (pp. 216-222). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• K. Fitch & R.E. Sanders (1994). Culture, communication, and preferences for directness in the expression of directives. Communication Theory, 4, 219-245.
• R.E. Sanders (1992). Cognition, computation, and conversation [Response to an article by Waldron and Cegala]. Human Communication Research, 18, 623-636
• R.E. Sanders (1992). The role of mass communication processes in the social upheavals in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. In S. King & D.P. Cushman (Eds.), Political communication: Engineering visions of order in a socialist world (pp. 143- 162). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• R.E. Sanders (1991). The two-way relationship between talk in social interactions and actors' goals and plans. In K. Tracy (Ed.), Understanding face-to-face interaction: Issues linking goals and discourse(pp. 167-188). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• R.E. Sanders (1990). Discursive constraints on the acceptance and rejection of knowledge claims: The conversation about conversation. In H. Simons (Ed.), The rhetorical turn: Invention and persuasion in the conduct of inquiry(pp. 145- 161). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• R.E. Sanders (1989). Message effects via induced changes in the social meaning of a response. In J. Bradac (Ed.), Message effects in communication science (pp. 165-194). Newberry Park, CA: Sage.
• T. Katriel & R.E. Sanders (1989). The meta-communicative role of epigraphs in scientific text construction. In H. Simons (Ed.), Rhetoric in the human sciences(pp. 183-194). London: Sage.
• R.E. Sanders (1989). The breadth of communication research and the parameters of communication theory. In S. King (Ed.), Human communication as a field of study: Selected contemporary views (pp. 221-231). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Other Professional Activities

Honors

• 1997 - Honoree, SCA Spotlight on Scholarship Series; SCA Convention, Chicago
• 1988 - Faculty Respondent, SCA Doctoral Honors Seminar on Situated Talk
• 1976 - Faculty Respondent, SCA Doctoral Honors Seminar on Rules Theory
• 1971 - Recipient, SCA Dissertation Award
• 1970 - Participant, SCA Doctoral Honors Seminar on Communication Theory

Funding

• 1998-2000: Empowering the Forecast Consumer: An Investigation of Citizen Need for, and the Technology for Communicating, Process-Centered Weather Information (with R. Westgaard). Comet Program: $33,682.
• 1995: The "Public Relations" Function in Weather Information Communcations: An Investigation of Public Understandings About Weather Forecasting and the National Weather Service. Comet Program: $7500.
• 1993: The Relationship between Children's Communicative Ability and Social Competence. Faculty Research Awards Program, University at Albany: $2750.
• 1972: The Development of Communicative Behavior in Children. Northern Illinois University Summer Research Fund: $2000.