Conversation analysis

Abstract: Publisher Summary Turn taking is used for the ordering of moves in games, for allocating political office, for regulating traffic at intersections, for the servicing of customers at business establishments, and for talking in interviews, meetings, debates, ceremonies, conversations. This chapter discusses the turn-taking system for conversation. On the basis of research using audio recordings of naturally occurring conversations, the chapter highlights the organization of turn taking for conversation and extracts some of the interest that organization has. The turn-taking system for conversation can be described in terms of two components and a set of rules. These two components are turn-constructional component and turn-constructional component. Turn-allocational techniques are distributed into two groups: (1) those in which next turn is allocated by current speaker selecting a next speaker and (2) those in which next turn is allocated by self-selection. The turn-taking rule-set provides for the localization of gap and overlap possibilities at transition-relevance places and their immediate environment, cleansing the rest of a turn's space of systematic bases for their possibility.

Abstract: PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introducing Qualitative Research - David Silverman PART TWO: OBSERVATION Ethnography - Isabelle Baszanger and Nicolas Dodier Relating the Part to the Whole Building Bridges - Gale Miller and Kathryn J Fox The Possibility of Analytic Dialogue between Ethnography, Conversation Analysis and Foucault PART THREE: TEXTS Analyzing Documentary Realities - Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey Doing Things with Documents - Lindsay Prior Internet Communication as a Tool for Qualitative Research - Annette Markham PART FOUR: INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS The 'Inside' and the 'Outside' - Jody Miller and Barry Glassner Finding Realities in Interviews The Active Interview - James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium Membership Categorization and Interview Accounts - Carolyn Baker Focus Group Research - Sue Wilkinson PART FIVE: TALK Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analyzing Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan Potter Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk - John Heritage Analyzing Data PART SIX: VISUAL DATA The Conceptualisation and Analysis of Visual Data - Michael Emmison Analyzing Face to Face Interaction - Christian Heath Video and the Visual and Material PART SEVEN: VALIDITY Reliability and Validity in Research Based on Transcripts - Anssi Per[um]akyl[um]a PART EIGHT: THE WIDER COMMUNITY Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research - Michael Bloor Using Qualitative Data and Analysis - Gale Miller, Robert Dingwall and Elizabeth Murphy Reflections on Organizational Research PART NINE: POSTSCRIPT Who Cares about 'Experience'? Missing Issues in Qualitative Research - David Silverman

Abstract: An "organization of repair' operates in conversation, addressed to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding. Several features of that organization are introduced to explicate the mechanism which produces a strong empirical skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair in the organization of repair. Several consequences of the preference for self-repair for conversational interaction are sketched.* 1. SELF- AND OTHER-CORRECTION. Among linguists and others who have at all concerned themselves with the phenomenon of'correction' (or, as we shall refer to it, 'repair'; cf. below, ?2.1), a distinction is commonly drawn between 'selfcorrection' and 'other-correction', i.e. correction by the speaker of that which is being corrected vs. correction by some 'other'.l Sociologists take an interest in such a distinction; its terms-'self' and 'other'-have long been understood as central to the study of social organization and social interaction.2 For our concerns in this paper, 'self' and 'other' are two classes of participants in interactive social

Abstract: Preface Transcript notation 1 Introduction John Heritage and J Maxwell Atkinson Part I Orientations: 2 Notes on methodology Harvey Sacks 3 On some questions and ambiguities in conversation Emanuel A Schegloff Part II Preference Organization: 4 Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes Anita Pomerantz 5 Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals, dealing with potential or actual rejection Judy Davidson 6 Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences Paul Drew 7 Pursuing a response Anita Pomerantz Part III Topic Organization: 8 Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors Graham Button and Neil Casey 9 On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters Gail Jefferson Part IV The Integration of Talk With Nonvocal Activities: 10 Notes on story structure and the organization of participation Charles Goodwin 11 Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement Christian Health 12 On some gestures' relation to talk Emanuel A Schegloff Part V Aspects of Response: 13 A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement John Heritage 14 On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles Gail Jefferson 15 Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause J Maxwell Atkinson Part VI Everyday Activities as Sociological Phenomena: 16 On doing 'being ordinary' Harvey Sacks References Subject index Index of names