1 | Page _____________________________________________________________________________________ Crying and Crying responses ______________________________________________________________________________________ Alexa Hepburn* and Jonathan Potter Discourse and Rhetoric Group Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire, LE11 3TU 7777 words Acknowledgements We would like to thank to Dr Jess Harris, University of Queensland, and Dr Marian May, School of Business, University of New South Wales, for useful input, and to Gail Jefferson for earlier help in developing original transcripts of crying. We would also like to thank Anssi and Marja-Leena for very useful, detailed and insightful editorial comments. *Requests for reprints should be addressed to Alexa Hepburn, Dept of Social Science, Loughborough University, UK. Email: A.Hepburn@lboro.ac.uk