Structures of social action : studies in conversation analysis /
"Bringing together thirteen original papers by leading American and British researchers, this volume reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis. It begins by outlining the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field and goes on to deve...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984. |
| Series: | Studies in emotion and social interaction.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John Heritage and J. Maxwell Atkinson
- Part I. Orientations. Notes on methodology / Harvey Sacks ; On some questions and ambiguities in conversation / Emanuel A. Schegloff
- Part II. Preference Organization. Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes / Anita Pomerantz ; Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals, dealing with potential or actual rejection / Judy Davidson ; Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences / Paul Drew ; Pursuing a response / Anita Pomerantz
- Part III. Topic Organization. Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors / Graham Button and Neil Casey ; On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters / Gail Jefferson
- Part IV. The Integration of Talk With Nonvocal Activities. Notes on story structure and the organization of participation / Charles Goodwin ; Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement / Christian Health ; On some gestures' relation to talk / Emanuel A. Schegloff
- Part V. Aspects of Response. A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement / John Heritage ; On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles / Gail Jefferson ; Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause / J. Maxwell Atkinson
- Part VI. Everyday Activities as Sociological Phenomena. On doing "being ordinary" Harvey Sacks.