This book explores the relationship between conversation analysis and applied linguistics,
demonstrating how the analysis of institutional talk can contribute to professional practice …

Much of everyday work is done through talk between practitioner and client. Conversation
Analysis is the close inspection of people's use of language in interaction. The work reported …

Conversation Analysis (CA) as a mode of inquiry is addressed to all forms of talk and other
conduct in interaction, and, accordingly, touches on the concerns of applied linguists at …

Talk is a central activity in social life. But how is ordinary talk organized? How do people
coordinate their talk in interaction? And what is the role of talk in wider social processes …

This textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the theoretical perspectives and methods
of doing conversation analysis, an approach to the study of talk in interaction which grew out …

Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually
happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it …

Emanuel A. Schegloff is, along with Gail Jefferson and the late Harvey Sacks, one of the
founders of conversation analysis, a mode of inquiry and research methodology. While he is …

The primary focus of research in Conversation Analysis (CA) is talk rather than language.
Talk is understood to be an occasion when people act out their sociality (cf. Schegloff, 1986) …

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive
research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions …

'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on
practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in …