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 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 is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the field that has done more than any other to illuminate the mechanics of interaction. Starting by locating CA by reference to a number of cognate disciplines investigating language in use, it provides an overview of the origins and methodology of CA. By using conversational data from a range of languages, it examines the basic apparatus of sequence organisation: turn-taking, preference, identity construction and repair. As the basis for these investigations, the book uses the twin analytic resources of action and sequence to throw new light on the origins and nature of language use. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Clift, Rebecca (University of Essex) Clift, Clift Rebecca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9780521198509
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19850-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; 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