Introduction to Conversation Analysis

✍ Scribed by Anthony J. Liddicoat

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This introduction is designed to give an overview of conversation analysis. It begins by locating conversation analysis as a methodology amongst other methodologies, and describing conversation analysis as body of knowledge which reveals the ways in which language works in communication. The chapters introduce every aspect of conversation analysis in a logical, step-by-step examination, including coverage of transcription, turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and storytelling. Comprehensive and accessible, An Introduction to Conversation Analysis is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, sociology and applied linguistics courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Conversation and Conversation Analysis......Page 12
2 Transcribing Conversation......Page 24
3 Turn-taking in Conversation......Page 62
4 Gaps and Overlaps in Turn-taking......Page 90
5 Adjacency Pairs and Preference Organization......Page 116
6 Expanding Sequences......Page 136
7 Repair......Page 182
8 Opening Conversation......Page 224
9 Closing Conversation......Page 266
10 Story-telling in Conversation......Page 290
References......Page 314
C......Page 326
I......Page 327
P......Page 328
S......Page 329
W......Page 330

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Коммуникативная лингвистика;