Editor: Gene H. Lerner, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract:
This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into
the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the
central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis
as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first
developed by Harvey Sacks, the authors produce detailed empirical accounts
of talk in interaction that make fundamental contributions to our
understanding of turntaking, action formation and sequence organization.
One distinguishing feature of this collection is that each of the
contributors worked directly with Sacks as a collaborator or was trained by
him at the University of California or both. Taken together this collection
gives readers a taste of CA inquiry in its early years, while nevertheless
presenting research of contemporary significance by internationally known
conversation analysts.
Table of contents
Introductory remarks
Gene H. Lerner 1-11
Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
Gail Jefferson 13-31
Part I: Taking turns speaking
An initial characterization of the organization of speaker turn-taking in
conversation
Harvey Sacks 35-42
A sketch of some orderly aspects of overlap in natural conversation
Gail Jefferson 43-59
Part II: Implementing actions
Answering the phone
Emanuel A. Schegloff 63-107
Investigating reported absences: 'Neutrally' catching the truants
Anita Pomerantz 109-129
"At first I thought": A normalizing device for extraordinary events
Gail Jefferson 131-167
Part III: Sequencing actions
Pre-announcement sequences in conversation
Alene Kiku Terasaki 171-223
Collaborative turn sequences
Gene H. Lerner 225-256
The amplitude shift mechanism in conversational closing sequences
Jo Ann Goldberg 257-297
Index 299-300
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
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