Conversation analysis (CA) has emerged in the last decades as a key perspective to study
social interaction within a variety of disciplines, including sociology where it originated and …

In their article in this issue, Speer and Hutchby argue that qualitative researchers' fears
about the reactive effects of audio-or video-recording on the quality of data are misplaced …

Research tends to form traditions and work along well-trodden paths, which eventually
become roads and sometimes even highways. Sometimes a powerful theory is the leading …

As phenomena this book makes clear, investigators who wish to examine social in an
immediate way—that is, without the technologies of the survey or other measuring …

What kinds of social organizations are used as resources when people communicate
through talk in interaction? It is this question that conversation analysis attempts to answer …

Conversation analysis (CA) emerged as a form of microsociology in the 1960s at the same
time that audio (and later, video) recording technologies became widely available to …

During the course of this short article, I respond and connect with insights and issues raised
by the Conversational Rollercoaster (CR) and its relationship with conversation analysis …

Language and Social Interaction scholars (whether ethnomethodologists, ethnographers, or
conversation analysts) often criticize speech act theorists for using invented sentences and …

In this chapter we provide an overview of ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation analysis
(CA). We first provide a historical backdrop of sociology within which EM emerged. This is …

Conversation Analysis (CA) has developed over the course of the last 30 years. Its objective
is to describe the competencies and procedures involved in the production of any type of …