Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Points of Departure
- Part III Collections
- Part IV Evidence
- Part V Avenues into Action
- 18 Single-Case Analysis
- 19 Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and the Study of Interaction in Everyday Life
- 20 Analyzing Categorial Phenomena in Talk-in-Interaction
- 21 Where the Action Is: Positioning Matters in Interaction
- 22 Analyzing Particles
- 23 Analyzing Grammar in Social Interaction
- 24 Listening to Talk-in-Interaction: Ways of Observing Speech
- 25 Multimodality in Conversation Analysis
- 26 System-Oriented Analysis: Moving from Singular Practices to Organizations of Practice
- 27 Comparing across Languages and Cultures
- 28 Methodological Considerations When Using Conversation Analysis to Investigate Institutional Interaction
- 29 Methods for ‘Applying’ Conversation Analysis
- 30 Using Conversation-Analytic Research Methods in the Study of Atypical Populations
- Part VI Situating and Reporting Findings
- Part VII Looking Forward
- Appendix I Jeffersonian Transcription Conventions
- Appendix II Multimodal Transcription Conventions
- Index
18 - Single-Case Analysis
from Part V - Avenues into Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Points of Departure
- Part III Collections
- Part IV Evidence
- Part V Avenues into Action
- 18 Single-Case Analysis
- 19 Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and the Study of Interaction in Everyday Life
- 20 Analyzing Categorial Phenomena in Talk-in-Interaction
- 21 Where the Action Is: Positioning Matters in Interaction
- 22 Analyzing Particles
- 23 Analyzing Grammar in Social Interaction
- 24 Listening to Talk-in-Interaction: Ways of Observing Speech
- 25 Multimodality in Conversation Analysis
- 26 System-Oriented Analysis: Moving from Singular Practices to Organizations of Practice
- 27 Comparing across Languages and Cultures
- 28 Methodological Considerations When Using Conversation Analysis to Investigate Institutional Interaction
- 29 Methods for ‘Applying’ Conversation Analysis
- 30 Using Conversation-Analytic Research Methods in the Study of Atypical Populations
- Part VI Situating and Reporting Findings
- Part VII Looking Forward
- Appendix I Jeffersonian Transcription Conventions
- Appendix II Multimodal Transcription Conventions
- Index
Summary
All CA research starts from single-case analysis (SCA) so as not to lose participants’ orientations exhibited in the details of individual cases. However, SCA can itself be a publishable outcome of CA research. This chapter, first, illustrates how previous SCA research has extracted candidate interactional practices and procedures, whose elaboration is left to subsequent research, and/or has advanced challenging claims concerning various human and social scientific concepts (such as grammar and action), using the previously explicated practices and procedures as analytic tools. Then, it demonstrates how SCA proceeds, and argues that the strength of SCA lies in its capacity to dig deeply into all the details of each case. Exploring the depth of a single case and examining various cases of a phenomenon are alternative methods for increasing the groundedness of the claims being advanced. Finally, the chapter suggests the possibility of applying SCA to practical issues.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis , pp. 487 - 511Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024