Conversation Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Clift is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. She is co-editor of Reporting Talk (Cambridge, 2006). Klappentext The first linguistics-based textbook on conversation analysis, illuminating the universals of interaction across a rich array of languages. Zusammenfassung We live our lives in conversation! building families! societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world! the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This book introduces the methods and findings of conversation analysis! the field that has! more than any other! illuminated the mechanics of interaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: why study conversation?; 2. Towards an understanding of action: origins and perspectives; 3. Why that, now?: position and composition in interaction; 4. Interaction in time: the centrality of turntaking; 5. The structure of sequences I: preference organisation; 6. The structure of sequences II: knowledge and authority in the construction of identity; 7. Halting progressivity: the organisation of repair; 8. Conclusion: discovering order.

About the author

Rebecca Clift is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. She is co-editor of Reporting Talk (Cambridge, 2006).

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Clift, Rebecca (University of Essex) Clift, Clift Rebecca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780521157193
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15719-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc