This volume contains a collection of original studies in
conversation analysis (C.A.) arranged and presented both to
introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the
expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are
making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into the order
and organisation of natural language. Though sociological in its
orientation. C.A. and the papers here represented are of direct
methodological and substantive interest to linguists, philosophers,
discourse and speech analysts and social anthropologists. Indeed
the strict adherence to the methodological principle that analysis
can and must be shown to be grounded in data represents a challenge
to all those disciplines which set out to use their materials as
mere hand-maidens to support preconstructed models, theories and
hypotheses. In this series of papers which includes previously
unpublished works of the late Harvey Sacks and the last completed
joint researches of Sacks, Jefferson and Schegloff ordinary talk is
shown as consisting of a variety of previously unnoticed socially
organised practices which conversationalists engage in to generate
the organisation which talk has. The methods and the analytic
mentality of conversation analysts are, and are here shown to be,
designed to make conversationalist's methods, structure and modes
of orientation available for empirical study. The search for order
and organisation reveals it everywhere. Laughter is shown to be
concertedly organised and negotiated in the finest detail. The
machinery of delicate repair systems is revealed. Conversational
completions are shown to be the product of elaborate negotiating
machineries. Conversationalists are revealed as subtly orienting-to
and invoking the visual contexts of their interaction within the
framework of the turn-taking organisation of conversation. This
volume also contains examples of conversation analytic work into
the talk produced in organisational settings such as courts and
Doctor/Patient interviews. Such analyses reveal the contribution
that the discipline might make towards the exploration of the kind
of social phenomena traditionally researched by sociologists,
social psychologists and social anthropologists.
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