Harvey Sacks Lectures 1964–1965

✍ Scribed by George Psathas (auth.), Gail Jefferson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Editor’s Introduction....Pages 1-2
Harvey Sacks — Lectures 1964–1965 An Introduction/Memoir....Pages 3-27
Introduction....Pages 29-33
Rules of Conversational Sequence....Pages 35-51
On Suicide Threats Getting Laughed Off....Pages 53-63
The Correction-Invitation Device....Pages 65-70
An Impromptu Survey of the Literature....Pages 71-77
Suicide as a Device for Discovering if Anybody Cares....Pages 79-88
The M.I.R. Membership Categorization Device....Pages 89-99
On Questions....Pages 101-111
On Measuring....Pages 113-129
“I am nothing”....Pages 131-137
Accountable Actions....Pages 139-150
On Exchanging Glances....Pages 151-168
Sequencing: Utterances, Jokes, and Questions....Pages 169-182
On Proverbs....Pages 183-196
The Inference-Making Machine....Pages 197-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-226

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Sociology, general