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Conversation Analysis Comparative Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 1107403898

ISBN-13: 9781107403895

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jack Sidnell

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'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. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world. Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations, this book examines differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including Finnish, Japanese, Tzeltal Mayan, Russian, and Mandarin. Bringing together interrelated methodological and analytic contributions, it explores topics such as the role of gaze in…    
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Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Introduction
Comparative perspectives in conversation analysis
Repair and Beyond
Repetition in the initiation of repair
The site of initiation in same turn self repair
Repairing reference
Aspects of Response
Projecting non-alignment in conversation
Answers to inapposite inquiries
Gaze, questioning and culture
Negotiating boundaries in talk
Action Formation and Sequencing
Alternative responses to assessments
Language-specific resources in repair and asessments
Implementing delayed actions
Conclusion
Commentary