Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) - Softcover

Book 1 of 25: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

Atkinson, J. Maxwell

 
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Synopsis

These essays reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis.

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Review

'... an excellent contribution to a rapidly growing field, which is extremely important to a very wide range of disciplines.' Steven Levinson, University of Cambridge

'This excellent summary of conversation analysts' theoretical accomplishments lays bare the interactive, and therefore incontrovertibly social, nature of understanding in face-to-face encounters. It is the clearest and most explicit statement yet of the context-bound, sequentially ordered inferential processes that both constrain and make possible human understanding.' John Gumperz, University of California, Berkeley

'This will become the standard work on conversation analysis. No one reading it will be able to doubt the basic importance of the research reported therein to sociology and linguistics.' Anthony Giddens, University of Cambridge

Book Description

Bringing together thirteen original papers by leading American and British researchers, this volume reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis. Through theoretical and methodological foundations, this collection examines organisation of preference, topic, non-vocal activities, and apparently spontaneous responses such as laughter and applause.

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ISBN 10:  0521248159 ISBN 13:  9780521248150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1985
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