Liddicoat, Anthony J.

Introduction to Coversational Analysis Anthony J. Liddicoat - Second edition - New York: Continuum International Publishing Group 2011 - 404 pagess: some illustrations;

Conversation and conversation analysis --
Collecting conversational data --
Transcribing conversation --
Analysing conversational data --
Turn-taking in conversation --
Gaps and overlaps in turn-taking --
Adjacency pairs and preference organization --
Expanding sequences --
Repair --
Opening conversation --
Closing conversation --
Story-telling in conversation --
Applying conversation analysis.

An introduction to conversation analysis that looks at methodology, motivation and the specifics of transcription. It begins by locating conversation analysis as a methodology amongst other methodologies, describing conversation analysis as body of knowledge which reveals the ways in which language works in communication.

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Anthony J. Liddicoat