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1 - Conversation Analysis

from Part I - Language in Context: A Sociohistorical Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

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John Heritage
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Jesús Romero-Trillo
Jesús Romero-Trillo
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Conversation Analysis (CA) is a major contributing discipline to the study of language use and social action in context. Originating in the discipline of sociology, it forms the basis for the burgeoning field of interactional linguistics. This chapter offers an overview of major themes in the field. Beginning with a brief discussion of the intellectual background of the field, the chapter sketches three distinctive levels of analysis: sequential organization, practices of turn construction, and the organization of these practices as sets of resources for dealing with recurrent problems in the social organization of interaction. Sections of the chapter deal with sequence organization, preference, turn design, the fitting of talk to specific contexts and recipients (recipient design), progressivity, multimodality, and interaction in the context of specific social institutions such as medicine, legal discourse, and news conferences.

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Conversation analysissequence organizationrepairpreferenceturn designrecipient designprogressivitymultimodalityinteraction in institutional contexts
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