Description
Book SynopsisThis book contains a collection of original studies in conversation analysis arranged and presented both to introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into the order and organisation of natural language.
Table of ContentsPreface
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1. J. R. E. Lee: Prologue: Talking Organisation
2. Harvey Sacks: On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in Conversation
3. Emanuel A. Schegloff: Recycled Turn Beginnings: A Precise Repair Mechanism in Conversation's Turn-taking Organisation
4. Gail Jefferson: On Exposed and Embedded Correction in Conversation
5. Graham Button: Moving out of Closings
6. Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff: Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy
7. Charles Goodwin: Unilateral Departure
8. Harvey Sacks: ‘You want to find out if anybody really does care'
9. Anita Pomerantz: Descriptions in Legal Settings
10. Wes Sharrock and Bob Anderson: Work Flow in a Paediatric Clinic
11. D.R. Watson: Interdisciplinary Considerations in the Analysis of Pro-terms
12. Wes Sharrock and Bob Anderson: Epilogue: The Definition of Alternatives: Some Sources of Confusion in Interdisciplinary Discussion
