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Conversation Analysis: Sociological
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015Co-Authors: Jack SidnellAbstract:Conversation Analysis (CA) is an approach to social interaction, which describes the stable structures and organizations of practice through which persons accomplish ordinary activities. Through a consideration of a single fragment of Conversation, this article introduces some of the main methods, findings, and theoretical assumptions of CA focusing on the problems of turn-taking, action ascription, and repair.
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Conversation Analysis comparative perspectives
2009Co-Authors: Jack SidnellAbstract:Introduction 1. Comparative perspectives in Conversation Analysis Jack Sidnell Part I. Repair and Beyond: 2. Repetition in the initiation of repair Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu 3. The site of initiation in same turn self repair Barbara Fox, Fay Wouk, Makoto Hayashi, Steven Fincke, Liang Tao, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Minna Laakso and Wilfrido Flores Hernandez 4. Repairing reference Maria Egbert, Andrea Golato and Jeffrey D. Robinson Part II. Aspects of Response: 5. Projecting non-alignment in Conversation Anna Lindstroem 6. Answers to inapposite inquiries Trine Heinemann 7. Gaze, questioning and culture Federico Rossano, Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson 8. Negotiating boundaries in talk Makoto Hayashi and Kyung-eun Yoon Part III. Action Formation and Sequencing: 9. Alternative responses to assessments Marja-Leena Sorjonen and Auli Hakulinen 10. Language-specific resources in repair and asessments Jack Sidnell 11. Implementing delayed actions Galina B. Bolden Conclusion: 12. Commentary Emanuel Schegloff.
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Comparative Studies in Conversation Analysis
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2007Co-Authors: Jack SidnellAbstract:Conversation Analysis initially drew its empirical materials from recordings of English Conversation. However, over the past 20 years Conversation analysts have begun to examine talk-in-interaction in an increasingly broad range of languages and communities. These studies allow for a new comparative perspective, which attends to the consequences of linguistic and social differences for the organization of social interaction.Aframework for such a comparative Analysis fo- cusing on a series of generic interactional issues or “problems” (e.g., how turns are to be distributed among participants) and the way they are solved through the mobilization of local resources (grammar, so- cial categories, etc.) is sketched. Comparative studies in Conversation Analysis encourage us to think of interaction in terms of generic or- ganizations of interaction, which are inflected or torqued by the local circumstances within which they operate (Schegloff 2006).
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GENE LERNER (ed.), Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation
Language in Society, 2006Co-Authors: Jack SidnellAbstract:Gene Lerner (ed.), Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. 300. Hb $138.00, Pb $65.95. Conversation Analysis developed in the mid to late 1960s in a collaboration initially between Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff and, somewhat later, with the addition of Gail Jefferson. By the early 1970s, several students joined the group, by this point based at the University of California campuses at Irvine and Los Angeles, to form what Lerner calls “the first generation.” Conversation Analysis has continued to grow, indeed has flourished, in the years since. Today Conversation analysts are to be found not only in the United Stated, Canada, and the United Kingdom, but also Japan, Korea, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, and many other countries. There are Conversation analysts in departments of sociology, linguistics, anthropology, communication, and psychology, as well as in many modern language and applied programs. The widespread success of Conversation Analysis is largely attributable to three characteristics of its research program:
Charles Antaki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Conversation Analysis at the fair
Discourse Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Charles AntakiAbstract:The authors of the ‘Conversational Rollercoaster’ article give a vivid and engaging account of a difficult but worthwhile exercise: bringing live Conversation Analysis (CA) to the public in a Scien...
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The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction - Conversation Analysis, Applied
The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 2015Co-Authors: Charles AntakiAbstract:Applied Conversation Analysis refers, usually, to the Analysis of interactions in specific domains of employment, education, medicine, business and service encounters, and other institutions. To apply Conversation Analysis in this way is to try to understand how society's institutions are brought into being, and, in some cases, to intervene to change them. Keywords: Conversation Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Linguistics; Psychology; Sociology
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The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics - Conversation Analysis and Identity in Interaction
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2012Co-Authors: Charles AntakiAbstract:The perspective of Conversation Analysis (CA) on identities can be described as social constructionist and non-essentialist. Keywords: discourse Analysis; language and social interaction; identity
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Pragmatics, linguistic competence, and Conversation Analysis
2012Co-Authors: Charles AntakiAbstract:Competent speakers have effortless mastery over talk; traditional theories about what happens when that goes wrong tend to locate the problem in the speaker. Conversation Analysis offers a radical alternative, stressing the role of the speaker’s interlocutors and the structures of Conversation that all parties can use.
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Six Kinds of Applied Conversation Analysis
Applied Conversation Analysis, 2011Co-Authors: Charles AntakiAbstract:Conversation Analysis is the study of how social action is brought about through the close organisation of talk. It can be applied, but the term ‘Applied Conversation Analysis’ has various shades of meaning. The two most familiar are that the application of Conversation Analysis (CA) to the talk of an institution like the school or the medical clinic can shed light on its workings; and that the CA researcher can suggest improvements in the service that such an institution provides. Those two senses of the term (which Richards, 2005, calls ‘discovery’ and ‘prescription’ respectively) capture a great deal of what is called applied CA, but not all. A survey of the literature suggests four more senses of the term, making six in all.
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Reflective interventionist Conversation Analysis
Discourse & Communication, 2020Co-Authors: Michelle O’reilly, Nikki Kiyimba, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom MuskettAbstract:A distinction has been drawn between basic (pure) Conversation Analysis (CA) and applied CA. Applied CA has become especially beneficial for informing areas of practice such as health, social care ...
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discourse Conversation Analysis and autism spectrum disorder
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016Co-Authors: Michelle Oreilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom MuskettAbstract:Qualitative research focused on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is important, as it can refine understandings of particular issues related to ASD and be practically relevant provided that quality criteria are applied (Bolte 2014). Employing qualitative methods for the study of ASD is an important way of giving a ‘voice’ to participants and can be particularly useful for empowering vulnerable or disadvantaged people groups (Peters 2010). The field of mental health and disability generally is one that is mediated through language (Brown et al. 1996) and qualitative methods tend to focus on language use, specifically those using discourse or Conversation Analysis approaches. Quantitative evidence, whatever its form, provides important and valuable evidence about ASD. However, it is crucial that the field does not solely rely on a relatively narrow range of methodologies and forms of knowledge to inform us about such a complex and diverse condition. Qualitative methods are able to go beyond establishing the likelihood of associations between variables, towards understanding the nature of such associations and the complex processes that they may be interpreted to represent. More specifically, qualitative methods are able to go beyond what works to show how and why a particular practice is effective (Rhodes 2011), particularly when taking into account established quality criteria. In this special section, we focus specifically on discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis, which are languageoriented qualitative approaches that analyse what people actually do and say, as opposed to what they report that they do or say (McCabe 2006). The five included articles use discourse or Conversation Analysis in varying ways, and highlight how these analytic methods pursue robust validation procedures and focus on identifying systematic patterns of interaction grounded in natural data (McCabe et al. 2002) with built in quality criteria. Typically researchers applying discourse or Conversation Analysis use extensive corpora of audioor video-recordings of social interactions collected in natural settings (e.g., clinic, therapy session). Analysis then involves a close, inductive examination of the interactions of all the participants in that setting. Although discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis are similar approaches, and both fall broadly within the landscape of qualitative research in that they treat language as their central focus (Bryman 2008), there are some important practical and epistemological differences which dictate the nature of the questions asked and the specific analytic methods used. Conversation Analysis (CA) is a qualitative approach that focuses on the study of interaction. The core aim of this approach is to examine the social organisation of activities that are produced in interaction through talk (Hutchby and Wooffitt 2008). In other words, CA aims to interrogate how people use language to perform certain social actions, such as excusing, inviting, complaining, & Michelle O’Reilly mjo14@leicester.ac.uk; mjo14@le.ac.uk
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Discourse/Conversation Analysis and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2015Co-Authors: Michelle O’reilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom MuskettAbstract:Qualitative research focused on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is important, as it can refine understandings of particular issues related to ASD and be practically relevant provided that quality criteria are applied (Bolte 2014). Employing qualitative methods for the study of ASD is an important way of giving a ‘voice’ to participants and can be particularly useful for empowering vulnerable or disadvantaged people groups (Peters 2010). The field of mental health and disability generally is one that is mediated through language (Brown et al. 1996) and qualitative methods tend to focus on language use, specifically those using discourse or Conversation Analysis approaches. Quantitative evidence, whatever its form, provides important and valuable evidence about ASD. However, it is crucial that the field does not solely rely on a relatively narrow range of methodologies and forms of knowledge to inform us about such a complex and diverse condition. Qualitative methods are able to go beyond establishing the likelihood of associations between variables, towards understanding the nature of such associations and the complex processes that they may be interpreted to represent. More specifically, qualitative methods are able to go beyond what works to show how and why a particular practice is effective (Rhodes 2011), particularly when taking into account established quality criteria. In this special section, we focus specifically on discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis, which are languageoriented qualitative approaches that analyse what people actually do and say, as opposed to what they report that they do or say (McCabe 2006). The five included articles use discourse or Conversation Analysis in varying ways, and highlight how these analytic methods pursue robust validation procedures and focus on identifying systematic patterns of interaction grounded in natural data (McCabe et al. 2002) with built in quality criteria. Typically researchers applying discourse or Conversation Analysis use extensive corpora of audioor video-recordings of social interactions collected in natural settings (e.g., clinic, therapy session). Analysis then involves a close, inductive examination of the interactions of all the participants in that setting. Although discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis are similar approaches, and both fall broadly within the landscape of qualitative research in that they treat language as their central focus (Bryman 2008), there are some important practical and epistemological differences which dictate the nature of the questions asked and the specific analytic methods used. Conversation Analysis (CA) is a qualitative approach that focuses on the study of interaction. The core aim of this approach is to examine the social organisation of activities that are produced in interaction through talk (Hutchby and Wooffitt 2008). In other words, CA aims to interrogate how people use language to perform certain social actions, such as excusing, inviting, complaining, & Michelle O’Reilly mjo14@leicester.ac.uk; mjo14@le.ac.uk
Douglas W. Maynard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Conversation Analysis doctor patient interaction and medical communication
Medical Education, 2005Co-Authors: Douglas W. MaynardAbstract:Introduction This paper introduces medical educators to the field of Conversation Analysis (CA) and its contributions to the understanding of the doctor−patient relationship. The Conversation Analysis approach Conversation Analysis attempts to build bridges both to the ethnographic and the coding and quantitative studies of medical interviews, but examines the medical interview as an arena of naturally occurring interaction. This implies distinctive orientations and issues regarding the Analysis of doctor−patient interaction. We discuss the CA approach by highlighting 5 basic features that are important to the enterprise, briefly illustrating each issue with a point from research on the medical interview. These features of Conversation analytic theory and method imply a systematic approach to the organisation in interaction that distinguishes it from studies that rely on anecdote, ethnographic inquiry or the systematic coding of utterances. Conversation Analysis and the medical interview We then highlight recent CA studies of the ‘phases’ of the internal medicine clinic and the implications of these studies for medical education. We conclude with suggestions for how to incorporate CA into the medical curriculum. It fits with biopsychosocial, patient-centred and relationship-centred approaches to teaching about medical communication.
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Ethnography and Conversation Analysis
2005Co-Authors: Douglas W. MaynardAbstract:As this book makes clear, investigators who wish to examine social phenomena in an immediate way—that is, without the technologies of the survey or other measuring instruments, coding, counting, and quantifying—have an increasing number of choices. The two choices I examine in this chapter are Conversation Analysis and ethnography. Conversation Analysis (CA) investigates how utterances, by virtue of the sequences in which they appear, perform recognizable social actions. Traditional ethnography depends on interview and participant observation to capture facets of members’ life world, and would seem compatible with CA, which uses audio and video capture of interaction in its natural settings. Doing CA involves scrutiny of recordings and detailed transcripts and would seem to be a more intense kind of observation, potentially adding to ethnographic strategies. Or, from the other direction, we could say that ethnography enhances the CA style of close
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Conversation Analysis, doctor–patient interaction and medical communication
Medical education, 2005Co-Authors: Douglas W. MaynardAbstract:Introduction This paper introduces medical educators to the field of Conversation Analysis (CA) and its contributions to the understanding of the doctor−patient relationship. The Conversation Analysis approach Conversation Analysis attempts to build bridges both to the ethnographic and the coding and quantitative studies of medical interviews, but examines the medical interview as an arena of naturally occurring interaction. This implies distinctive orientations and issues regarding the Analysis of doctor−patient interaction. We discuss the CA approach by highlighting 5 basic features that are important to the enterprise, briefly illustrating each issue with a point from research on the medical interview. These features of Conversation analytic theory and method imply a systematic approach to the organisation in interaction that distinguishes it from studies that rely on anecdote, ethnographic inquiry or the systematic coding of utterances. Conversation Analysis and the medical interview We then highlight recent CA studies of the ‘phases’ of the internal medicine clinic and the implications of these studies for medical education. We conclude with suggestions for how to incorporate CA into the medical curriculum. It fits with biopsychosocial, patient-centred and relationship-centred approaches to teaching about medical communication.
Barry Cl Lam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Building consensus on user participation in social work: A Conversation Analysis:
Journal of Social Work, 2018Co-Authors: Terry Tf Leung, Barry Cl LamAbstract:SummaryIn order to understand how mutual understanding was achieved in discursive interactions between the welfare service users and service practitioners, Conversation Analysis was conducted in fo...