The Handbook of Conversation Analysis

by Jack Sidnell (Editor), Tanya Stivers (Editor)

Overview

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable information resource and reference for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, interpersonal communication, discursive psychology and sociolinguistics.

• Ideal as an introduction to the field for upper level undergraduates and as an in-depth review of the latest developments for graduate level students and established scholars
• Five sections outline the history and theory, methods, fundamental concepts, and core contexts in the study of conversation, as well as topics central to conversation analysis
• Written by international conversation analysis experts, the book covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, from reviewing underlying structures of conversation, to describing conversation analysis' relationship to anthropology, communication, linguistics, psychology, and sociology

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118340455
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/10/2012
Series:	Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	848
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Jack Sidnell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Talk and Practical Epistemology: The Social Life of Knowledge in a Caribbean Community (2005), the editor of Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives (2009) and the author of Conversation Analysis: An Introduction (2009). 

Tanya Stivers is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the author of Prescribing Under Pressure: Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics (2007), and co-editor of Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives (with N. Enfield, 2007), and of The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation (with L. Mondada and J. Steensig, 2010).

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xvi

1 Introduction 1
Tanya Stivers and Jack Sidnell

Part I Studying Social Interaction from a CA Perspective 9

2 Everyone and No One to Turn to: Intellectual Roots and Contexts for Conversation Analysis 11
Douglas W. Maynard

3 The Conversation Analytic Approach to Data Collection 32
Lorenza Mondada

4 The Conversation Analytic Approach to Transcription 57
Alexa Hepburn and Galina B. Bolden

5 Basic Conversation Analytic Methods 77
Jack Sidnell

Part II Fundamental Structures of Conversation 101

6 Action Formation and Ascription 103
Stephen C. Levinson

7 Turn Design 131
Paul Drew

8 Turn-Constructional Units and the Transition-Relevance Place 150
Steven E. Clayman

9 Turn Allocation and Turn Sharing 167
Makoto Hayashi

10 Sequence Organization 191
Tanya Stivers

11 Preference 210
Anita Pomerantz and John Heritage

12 Repair 229
Celia Kitzinger

13 Overall Structural Organization 257
Jeffrey D. Robinson

Part III Key Topics in CA 281

14 Embodied Action and Organizational Activity 283
Christian Heath and Paul Luff

15 Gaze in Conversation 308
Federico Rossano

16 Emotion, Affect and Conversation 330
Johanna Ruusuvuori

17 Affiliation in Conversation 350
Anna Lindström and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

18 Epistemics in Conversation 370
John Heritage

19 Question Design in Conversation 395
Kaoru Hayano

20 Response Design in Conversation 415
Seung-Hee Lee

21 Reference in Conversation 433
N. J. Enfield

22 Phonetics and Prosody in Conversation 455
Gareth Walker

23 Grammar in Conversation 475
Harrie Mazeland

24 Storytelling in Conversation 492
Jenny Mandelbaum

Part IV Key Contexts of Study in CA: Populations and Settings 509

25 Interaction among Children 511
Mardi Kidwell

26 Conversation Analysis and the Study of Atypical Populations 533
Charles Antaki and Ray Wilkinson

27 Conversation Analysis in Psychotherapy 551
Anssi Peräkylä

28 Conversation Analysis in Medicine 575
Virginia Teas Gill and Felicia Roberts

29 Conversation Analysis in the Classroom 593
Rod Gardner

30 Conversation Analysis in the Courtroom 612
Martha Komter

31 Conversation Analysis in the News Interview 630
Steven E. Clayman

Part V CA across the Disciplines 657

32 Conversation Analysis and Sociology 659
John Heritage and Tanya Stivers

33 Conversation Analysis and Communication 674
Wayne A. Beach

34 Conversation Analysis and Anthropology 688
Ignasi Clemente

35 Conversation Analysis and Psychology 701
Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards

36 Conversation Analysis and Linguistics 726
arbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson, Cecilia E. Ford and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

References 741

Names Index 812

Topic Index 815

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Finally, the state of the art in Conversation Analysis is presented in a concise handbook. Over five decades, CA has been used to study talk-in-interaction, profoundly influencing research disciplines concerned with human interaction. A comprehensive account of CA in this detail and quality has never been published before. The community is indebted to Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers."
—Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark

"A must-read for every student of human interaction. It captures the outstanding interdisciplinary reach of CA and offers fresh perspectives on foundational issues: its voices are authoritative and inspirational."
—Rebecca Clift, University of Essex

"An authoritative, wide-ranging overview of conversation analysis, an ideal tool for advanced students finding their way in doing CA, but useful for all CA practitioners."
—Paul ten Have, author of Doing Conversation Analysis: A Practical Guide

Editorial Reviews

"The editors of The Handbook of Conversation Analysis have been successful in compiling a tightly structured collection with chapters that are consistently lucid and comprehensive in their treatment of the 'core' concerns of Conversation Analysis.... The Handbook of Conversation Analysis shows Conversation Analysis's distinctive approach to language and social interaction to be much broader than some caricatures of the field would have us believe and, as such, it should appeal to sociolinguists of various types."
—Susan Ehrlich, Journal of Sociolinguistics 20/2, 2016

"Taken as a whole, these 36 chapters are extremely useful as a resource for all students and researchers interested in CA. They offer an excellent inventory of what CA has achieved in the 45 years of its existence. In that sense the Handbook is a clear landmark for CA as a field, reconsidering the past as well as looking into the future." (Discourse Studies, 1 June 2014)

"This magnificent volume is essential reading for specialists and interested non-specialists alike. Above all, it will provide a brilliant teaching resource. With this Handbook, CA has come of age." (The Sociological Review, 21 October 2013)

"However, these minor criticisms aside, the book is a must-have resource for learning, teaching and conducting research in CA, and as such essential reading for both students and academics." (LINGUIST List, 15 July 2013)

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