Waring2021a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Waring2021a |
| Author(s) | Hansun Zhang Waring |
| Title | Conversation analysis |
| Editor(s) | Ken Hyland, Brian Paltridge |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, introduction to conversation analysis, Basic Resources |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 21–33 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350156111.ch-002 |
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| Book title | The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2nd Edition) |
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Abstract
Founded by sociologists Harvey Sacks, Emmanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson in the 1960s, conversation analysis (CA) is the study of social interaction as it actually happens in its natural habitat. It’s not the study of how we think it should happen, how we believe it must have happened or how it might happen under various laboratory conditions. More importantly, CA is the study of such happenings in participants’ terms, not via analysts’ theorizing. As conversation analysts, we are interested in excavating the tacit methods and procedures participants deploy to get things done in social interaction, be that getting the floor to tell a story, launching a complaint or moving out of a conversation. For the past five decades, CA has been effectively deployed to yield in-depth understandings of social interaction in a wide variety of ordinary conversations and institutional interactions (Sidnell and Stivers 2013). This chapter offers an introduction to CA as an approach to discourse analysis, presents a sample study to illustrate its various features and sketches some endeavours that gesture towards intersecting with other disciplines and satisfying more practical concerns.
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