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.