Jefferson-Schenkein1977

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Jefferson-Schenkein1977
BibType ARTICLE
Key Jefferson-Schenkein1977
Author(s) Gail Jefferson, Jim Schenkein
Title Some sequential negotiations in conversation: unexpanded and expanded versions of projected action sequences
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Year 1977
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Journal Sociology
Volume 11
Number 1
Pages 87–103
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DOI 10.1177/003803857701100105
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Abstract

This paper reports findings of research into the organizational structure of ordinary conversation. Substantively, the paper is preoccupied with building rigorous descriptions of transcribed conversational materials; a technical appreciation of the action sequences organizing chunks of talk into meaningful interactional units is developed as increasingly non-intuitive observations detail the systematic expansions of three turn action sequences into four, five, and six turn action sequences. Methodologically, the paper is built as a series of progressively more formal characterizations of the interaction captured in the transcript; an analytic appreciation of a research mentality committed to close scrutiny of actually occurring instances of conversation emerges as successive phenomenal layers receive attention.

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Also in: J.N. Schenkein, ed., Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. New York: Academic Press (1978): 155-172.