Conversation analysis : studies from the first generation /

This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Lerner, Gene H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 125.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conversation Analysis; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Epigraph; Harvey Sacks 1935-1975; Contents; Introductory remarks; Notes; References; Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction; Part I. Taking turns speaking; An initial characterization of the organization of speaker turn-taking in conversation; A sketch of some orderly aspects of overlap in natural conversation; Part II. Implementing actions; Answering the phone; Investigating reported absences; "At first I thought"; Part III. Sequencing actions; Pre-announcement sequences in conversation; Collaborative turn sequences.