Context
| Encyclopedia of Terminology for CA and IL: Context | |
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| Author(s): | Kevin A. Whitehead (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8817-1175) |
| To cite: | Whitehead, Kevin A. (2024). Context. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott M. Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). DOI: [] |
Additional Related Entries:
- Action ascription
- Action formation
- Membership categorization device
- Preference
- Sequence organization
- Social action
Cited References:
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Garfinkel, H., & Sacks, H. (1970). On formal structures of practical actions. In J. C. McKinney & E. A. Tiryakian (Eds.), Theoretical sociology: Perspectives and developments. Appleton-Century-Crofts.
Goodwin, C, & Heritage, J. (1990). Conversation analysis. Annual Review of Anthropology, 19(1), 283-307.
Heritage, J. (1984). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Polity.
Mandelbaum, J. (1990/1991). Beyond mundane reason: Conversation analysis and context. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 24(1-4), 333-350.
Maynard, D. W. (2003). Bad news, good news: Conversational order in everyday talk and clinical settings. University of Chicago Press.
Pomerantz, A. M. (1984). Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: Some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis (pp. 57-101). Cambridge University Press.
Schegloff, E. A. (1987). Between micro and macro: Contexts and other connections. In J. Alexander (Ed.), The micro-macro link (pp. 207-234). University of California Press.
Schegloff, E. A. (1991). Reflections on talk and social structure. In D. Boden & D. H. Zimmerman (Eds.), Talk and social structure: Studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (pp. 44-70). Polity Press.
Schegloff, E. A. (1997). Whose text? Whose context? Discourse & Society, 8(2), 165-187.
Schegloff, E. A. (2007). Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis (vol. 1). Cambridge University Press.
Whalen, M. R., & Zimmerman, D. H. (1987). Sequential and institutional contexts in calls for help. Social Psychology Quarterly, 50(2), 172-185.
Whitehead, K. A. (2020). The problem of context in the analysis of talk-in-interaction: The case of implicit whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa. Social Psychology Quarterly, 83(3), 294-313.
Whitehead, K. A. (2021). On Sacks and the analysis of racial categories-in-action. In R. J. Smith, R. Fitzgerald, & W. Housley (Eds.), On Sacks: Methodology, materials and inspirations (pp. 195-207). Routledge.
Whitehead, K. A., & Lerner, G. H. (2021). When simple self-reference is too simple: Managing the categorical relevance of speaker self-presentation. Language in Society, 51, 403-426.
Zimmerman, D. H., & Boden, D. (1991). Structure-in-action: An introduction. In D. Boden & D. H. Zimmerman (Eds.), Talk and social structure: Studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (pp. 3-21). Polity Press
Additional References:
Duranti, A., & Goodwin, C. (1992). Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. Cambridge University Press.
McHoul, A., Rapley, M., & Antaki, C. (2008). You gotta light? On the luxury of context for understanding talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 40, 42-54.
Pomerantz, A. M. (1998). Multiple interpretations of context: How are they useful? Research on Language and Social Interaction, 31(1), 123-132.
Schegloff, E. A. (1992). On talk and its institutional occasions. In Drew, P. & Heritage, J. (Eds.), Talk at work: Interaction in institutional settings (pp. 101-134). Cambridge University Press.
Silverman, D., & Gubrium, J. F. (1994). Competing strategies for analyzing the contexts of talk-in-interaction. Sociological Inquiry, 64(2), 179-198.
