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This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events
or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of
spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal
research groups as they conduct real life investigations into
allegedly haunted spaces and the analyses describe how, through
their talk and embodied actions, participants collaboratively
negotiate the paranormal status of the events they experience.By
drawing on the study of the social organisation in everyday
interaction, they show how paranormal interpretations may be
proposed, contested and negotiated through conversational and
embodied practices of the group. The book contributes to the
sociology of anomalous experience, and explores its relevance to
other social science topics such as dark tourism, participation in
religious spaces and practices, and the attribution of agency. This
book will therefore be of interest to academics and postgraduate
researchers of language and social interaction; discourse and
communication, cultural studies; social psychology, sociology of
religious experience; parapsychology, communication and
psychotherapy.
Every week thousands of people in Europe and the USA consult
psychic practitioners. Communication is crucial to the performance
of psychic powers in a range of settings. Psychic practitioners use
language to demonstrate their powers, whether they are reporting
the words of their spirit contacts or interpreting the spread of
Tarot cards. Their clients also accept or reject this information
through talk. This book presents the first sustained study of the
verbal interaction between the various kinds of psychic
practitioners and their clients. Using conversation analysis, Robin
Wooffitt examines the structure of the interaction, focusing on the
ways in which psychic practitioners and their clients establish the
authenticity of the claimed paranormal powers. Adopting a neutral
standpoint towards the status of the claims of psychic
practitioners, the book raises important issues about the role of
social science in understanding the activities of psychic
practitioners and other kinds of parapsychological phenomena. This
highly original study will appeal to students and scholars of
discourse studies, and to sociologists interested in conversation
analysis. It is written in a style accessible to non-specialists,
and will also interest parapsychologists and social scientists
studying psychic phenomena and the paranormal.
This collection extends the conversation beginning with Gail
Jefferson's seminal 1996 article, "On the Poetics of Ordinary
Talk," linking the poetics of ordinary talk with the work of poets
to bring together critical perspectives on new data from
talk-in-interaction and applications of Jefferson's poetics to
literary discourse. Bringing together contributions from
Conversation Analysis and literary scholars, the book begins by
analyzing the presentation which served as the genesis for
Jefferson's article to highlight the occurrence of poetics in
institutional talk. The first section then provides an in-depth
examination of case studies from Conversation Analysis which draw
on new data from naturally occurring discourse. The second half
explores literary poetics as a form of institutional talk emerging
from the poetics of ordinary talk, offering new possibilities for
interpreting work in classics, biblical studies, folklore studies
and contemporary literature. Each chapter engages in a discussion
of Jefferson's article toward reinforcing the relationships between
the two disciplines and indicating a way forward for
interdisciplinary scholarship. The collection highlights the
enduring influence of Jefferson's poetics to our understanding of
language, both talk-in interaction and literary discourse, making
this book of particular interest to students and researchers in
Conversation Analysis, literary studies, stylistics, and
pragmatics.
Every week thousands of people in Europe and the USA consult
psychic practitioners. Communication is crucial to the performance
of psychic powers in a range of settings. Psychic practitioners use
language to demonstrate their powers, whether they are reporting
the words of their spirit contacts or interpreting the spread of
Tarot cards. Their clients also accept or reject this information
through talk. This book presents the first sustained study of the
verbal interaction between the various kinds of psychic
practitioners and their clients. Using conversation analysis, Robin
Wooffitt examines the structure of the interaction, focusing on the
ways in which psychic practitioners and their clients establish the
authenticity of the claimed paranormal powers. Adopting a neutral
standpoint towards the status of the claims of psychic
practitioners, the book raises important issues about the role of
social science in understanding the activities of psychic
practitioners and other kinds of parapsychological phenomena. This
highly original study will appeal to students and scholars of
discourse studies, and to sociologists interested in conversation
analysis. It is written in a style accessible to non-specialists,
and will also interest parapsychologists and social scientists
studying psychic phenomena and the paranormal.
Computers are increasingly able to mimic abilities we often think
of as exclusively human - memory, decision-making and now, speech.
A new generation of speech recognition systems can make at least
some attempt at understanding what is said to them and can respond
accordingly. These systems are coming into daily use for home
banking, for airline flights enquiries and for placing orders over
the telephone and are fast becoming more powerful and more
pervasive. Using data taken from a major, European Union funded
project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book
shows how this data may be analyzed to yield important conclusions
about the organization of both human-human and human-computer
information dialogues. It describes the Wizard-of-Oz method of
collecting speech dialogues from people who believe they are
interacting with a speech understanding system before that system
has been fully designed or built and it shows how the resulting
dialogues may be analyzed to guide further design. This book
provides detailed and comparative studies of human and
human-computer speech dialogues, including analyses of opening and
closing sequences and turn-taking.
Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on
speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers
current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for
the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on
conversation analysis.
`This is one of those books that, researchers, students and
teachers want to have on their desks, because it answers questions,
clarifies confusing areas, and provides accessible overviews of
sometimes technical work - and all in prose that is unpretentious
and engaging' - British Journal of Sociology `There is no doubt
that conversation analysis (CA) is an impressive and valuable
approach to studying discourse, and Wooffitt does an excellent job
of demonstrating its analytical sophistication and rigour' -
European Journal of Communication `This is an excellent book:
clear, engaging and authoritative. It treads a path through the
many confusions and provides a map of the fields of conversation
analysis, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and
discursive psychology which is better than any currently available.
It will be a valuable resource in teaching' - Professor Jonathan
Potter, Loughborough University `An excellent exposition: concepts
are explained and put into context, and the reader is guided from
introductory to advanced levls of discussion. Wooffitt sets out and
answers the kinds of questions typically raised by students and
others about relations and differences between discourse and
conversation analysis... engaging and useful' - Professor Derek
Edwards, Loughborough University This significant text by Robin
Wooffitt is the first to systematically examine the complex
relationship between conversation analysis and discourse analysis.
It comes at a timely moment: despite the close connection between
the two forms of analyses in academic research, no other existing
text explains these links methodically, comprehensively and for the
benefit of undergraduate and master's students. Key features of
this text: - It takes students from first principles up to more
advanced debates, and is therefore suitable for under grad and
MA/PhD students. - Careful illustration of methodological
approaches through detailed analysis of data. - Clarity of writing;
lengthy chapter summaries; further readings; glossary of CA/DA
terminology as an appendix. Conversation Analysis and Discourse
Analysis shows how the methods and findings of conversation and
discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research
questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social
science students on courses which require them to undertake
practical or empirical exercises.
`This is one of those books that, researchers, students and
teachers want to have on their desks, because it answers questions,
clarifies confusing areas, and provides accessible overviews of
sometimes technical work - and all in prose that is unpretentious
and engaging' - British Journal of Sociology `There is no doubt
that conversation analysis (CA) is an impressive and valuable
approach to studying discourse, and Wooffitt does an excellent job
of demonstrating its analytical sophistication and rigour' -
European Journal of Communication `This is an excellent book:
clear, engaging and authoritative. It treads a path through the
many confusions and provides a map of the fields of conversation
analysis, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and
discursive psychology which is better than any currently available.
It will be a valuable resource in teaching' - Professor Jonathan
Potter, Loughborough University `An excellent exposition: concepts
are explained and put into context, and the reader is guided from
introductory to advanced levls of discussion. Wooffitt sets out and
answers the kinds of questions typically raised by students and
others about relations and differences between discourse and
conversation analysis... engaging and useful' - Professor Derek
Edwards, Loughborough University This significant text by Robin
Wooffitt is the first to systematically examine the complex
relationship between conversation analysis and discourse analysis.
It comes at a timely moment: despite the close connection between
the two forms of analyses in academic research, no other existing
text explains these links methodically, comprehensively and for the
benefit of undergraduate and master's students. Key features of
this text: - It takes students from first principles up to more
advanced debates, and is therefore suitable for under grad and
MA/PhD students. - Careful illustration of methodological
approaches through detailed analysis of data. - Clarity of writing;
lengthy chapter summaries; further readings; glossary of CA/DA
terminology as an appendix. Conversation Analysis and Discourse
Analysis shows how the methods and findings of conversation and
discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research
questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social
science students on courses which require them to undertake
practical or empirical exercises.
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