An Introduction to Conversation Analysis
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 function?

Answering these questions and more, An Introduction to Conversation Analysis is an essential overview of this topic for students in a wide range of disciplines including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and sociology. This is the only book you need to learn how to do conversation analysis.

Beginning by positioning conversation analysis amongst other methodologies, this book explains the advantages before guiding you step-by-step through how to do conversation analysis and what it reveals about the ways language works in communication. Chapters introduce every aspect of conversation analysis logically and clearly, covering topics such as transcription, turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and storytelling.

Now fully revised and expanded to take account of recent developments, this third edition includes:

- 3 new chapters, covering action formation and epistemics, multimodality and spoken interaction, and written conversation
- New topics including online and mobile technology, cross-cultural conversation and medical discourse
- A glossary of key terms, brand new exercises and updated lists of further reading
- A fully updated companion website, featuring tutorials, audio and video files, and a range of different exercises covering turn taking, organisation and repair

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An Introduction to Conversation Analysis
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 function?

Answering these questions and more, An Introduction to Conversation Analysis is an essential overview of this topic for students in a wide range of disciplines including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and sociology. This is the only book you need to learn how to do conversation analysis.

Beginning by positioning conversation analysis amongst other methodologies, this book explains the advantages before guiding you step-by-step through how to do conversation analysis and what it reveals about the ways language works in communication. Chapters introduce every aspect of conversation analysis logically and clearly, covering topics such as transcription, turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and storytelling.

Now fully revised and expanded to take account of recent developments, this third edition includes:

- 3 new chapters, covering action formation and epistemics, multimodality and spoken interaction, and written conversation
- New topics including online and mobile technology, cross-cultural conversation and medical discourse
- A glossary of key terms, brand new exercises and updated lists of further reading
- A fully updated companion website, featuring tutorials, audio and video files, and a range of different exercises covering turn taking, organisation and repair

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An Introduction to Conversation Analysis

An Introduction to Conversation Analysis

by Anthony J. Liddicoat
An Introduction to Conversation Analysis

An Introduction to Conversation Analysis

by Anthony J. Liddicoat

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Overview

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 function?

Answering these questions and more, An Introduction to Conversation Analysis is an essential overview of this topic for students in a wide range of disciplines including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and sociology. This is the only book you need to learn how to do conversation analysis.

Beginning by positioning conversation analysis amongst other methodologies, this book explains the advantages before guiding you step-by-step through how to do conversation analysis and what it reveals about the ways language works in communication. Chapters introduce every aspect of conversation analysis logically and clearly, covering topics such as transcription, turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and storytelling.

Now fully revised and expanded to take account of recent developments, this third edition includes:

- 3 new chapters, covering action formation and epistemics, multimodality and spoken interaction, and written conversation
- New topics including online and mobile technology, cross-cultural conversation and medical discourse
- A glossary of key terms, brand new exercises and updated lists of further reading
- A fully updated companion website, featuring tutorials, audio and video files, and a range of different exercises covering turn taking, organisation and repair


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350090637
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/23/2021
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Conversation and Conversation Analysis
2. Collecting Conversational Data
3. Transcribing Conversation
4. Analysing Conversational Data
5. Turn-Taking in Conversation
6. Gaps and Overlaps in Turn-Taking
7. Adjacency Pairs and Preference Organization
8. Expanding Sequences
9. Repair
10. Epistemics and Action Formation
11. Embodied Actions and the Multimodality of Spoken Interaction
12. Online Written Interaction
13. Opening Conversation
14. Closing Conversation
15. Storytelling in Conversation
16. Applying Conversation Analysis
Glossary
Transcription Conventions
References
Index

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