Conversation analysis : comparative perspectives /
'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation a...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Series: | Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ;
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| Summary: | 'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world. Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations, this book examines differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including Finnish, Japanese, Tzeltal Mayan, Russian and Mandarin. Bringing together interrelated methodological and analytic contributions, it explores topics such as the role of gaze in question-and-answer sequences, the organization of repair, and the design of responses to assessments. The emerging comparative perspective demonstrates how the structure of talk is inflected by the local circumstances within which it operates. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 441 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521883719 0521883717 9780511635236 0511635230 9780511633119 0511633114 9780511635670 0511635672 1107403898 9781107403895 0511699883 9780511699887 1282382233 9781282382237 9786612382239 6612382236 0511634781 9780511634789 0511631901 9780511631900 0511634323 9780511634321 |
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