Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521883719)

'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 question-and-answer sequences, the organization of repair, and the design of responses to assessments. The emerging comparative perspective demonstrates how the structure of talk is inflected by the local circumstances within which it operates.

Author: Jack Sidnell
ISBN-10: 0521883717
ISBN-13: 9780521883719
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2009
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d