Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

BACKGROUND CA developed within a sociological context in which the dominant sociologi-
cal approach to the analysis of action was the product of a classical in-terdisciplinary …

The Sage handbook of qualitative data collection Page 2 Page 3 International Advisory
Editorial Board Rosaline S. Barbour, Emerita Professor at the Open University, United Kingdom …

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics
research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives. They cover theories of …

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 …

Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in
recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author …

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 …

In everyday social interaction, knowledge displays and negotiations are ubiquitous. At issue
is whether we have epistemic access to some state of affairs, but also how certain we are …

This book, first published in 1996, argues that language use is more than the sum of a
speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers …

The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other
speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is …