Clift2024b

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Clift2024b
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Clift2024b
Author(s) Rebecca Clift, Rod Gardner, Rose McCabe, Anssi Peräkylä, Jonathan Potter
Title Conversation Analysis across Disciplines: Connecting and Engaging through Publishing
Editor(s) Jeffrey D. Robinson, Rebecca Clift, Kobin H. Kendrick, Chase Wesley Raymond
Tag(s) EMCA, Communication, Education, Health-services research, Linguistics, Social psychology, Sociology
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year 2024
Language English
City Cambridge
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Pages 895-921
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DOI 10.1017/9781108936583.031
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Book title The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis
Chapter 31

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Abstract

A significant part of our work as conversation analysts is to persuade different disciplinary communities of the insights from CA. Here, conversation analysts working within the broader domains of sociology, linguistics, psychology and communication, education, and health services discuss the ways in which our findings may be shaped for publication in journals particular to our own domains, and thereby engage with our wider disciplinary audiences. In the first instance, we situate CA with respect to its development in each of our disciplines and identify the core issues with which CA is engaging. We then examine some of the challenges in presenting CA to our disciplines. These include addressing the question that CA scholars often face from colleagues in those disciplines: ‘Why should this matter to us?’. We finally offer some practical guidance on writing CA for our particular audiences, including: how to manage the length constraints often imposed by journals, the issue of sampling size, and how to balance the demands of transcriptional detail as required by CA with those of clarity and legibility for those not accustomed to it. Such challenges can be highly creative – and worthwhile in showing how CA can enhance received theory in our own disciplines.

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