Conversation Analysis - Comparative Perspectives

Klappentext A edited collection which analyses conversation in a variety of contexts and settings. Zusammenfassung 'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations! this book examines differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including Finnish! Japanese! Russian! and Mandarin. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Lindström; 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Sidnell, Jack (University of Toronto) Sidnell
• Assisted by: Jack Sidnell (Editor), Jack (University of Toronto) Sidnell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9781107403895
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40389-5
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics; Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries