Conversation analysis : studies from the first generation / [edited by] Gene H. Lerner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lerner, Gene H.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 125.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. v. 125

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Oral communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis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 Harvey Sacks, the authors produce detailed empirical accounts of talk in interaction that make fundamental contributions to our understanding of turntaking, action formation and sequence organization. One distinguishing feature of this collection is that each of the contributors worked directly with Sacks as a collaborator or was trained by him at the University of California or both. Taken together this collection gives readers a taste of CA inquiry in its early years, while nevertheless presenting research of contemporary significance by internationally known conversation analysts.

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

Appendix

"At first I thought"

Part III. Sequencing actions

Pre-announcement sequences in conversation

Collaborative turn sequences

The amplitude shift mechanism in conversational closing sequences

Index

The Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160301

9781282160309

1282160303

9789027295286

902729528X

OCLC:

70773855