This article reviews arguments that, in the process of action formation and ascription, the
relative status of the participants with respect to a projected action can adjust or trump the …

For the last decade, conversation analysis (CA) has increasingly contributed to several
established fields in applied linguistics. In this article, we will discuss its methodological …

This article considers the role of grammatical form in the construction of social action,
focusing on turns that either assert or request information. It is argued that the epistemic …

Conversation analysis (hereafter CA) is an approach to language and social interaction that
emerged in the mid-to late 1960s through the collaboration of the sociologists Harvey Sacks …

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions,
introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis. Features a …

Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to
researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom …

In Relationship Thinking, NJ Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction
and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships …

Organizational routines and capabilities are thorny constructs, but their complexity has been
largely underappreciated. In this article, the authors illustrate how new and more complex …

In the assessment of speaking, a psycholinguistically based speaking construct has
predominated. In this paper, we argue for the integration of the construct of interactional …

How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in
language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create …