Recent moves in psychology to use people's talk as data have been highly productive, but
we should look carefully at the way the context of such talk is reproduced when the research …

This article discusses the status of transcripts in Conversation Analysis. Repeatedly, the
function and the epistemic state of transcripts have been the subject of discussions and …

The questions dealt with in this special issue of Journal of Pragmatics are doubly vexed. The
first matter at issue is that the papers I've solicited take on some aspects of the debate within …

Apersistent though sometimes subterranean theme of the conver-sation analysis literature
concerns the place of tacit members' knowledge in the doing and in the results of …

A recurring challenge in my work and that of many others who are interested in multimodal
interaction is transcription. Whenever I analyse a video recording of an interaction the …

Media subtitles provide transcriptions of the spoken word. Playscripts are transcriptions that
provide instructions on how dramatic talk and play should be created. Courtroom transcripts …

This chapter will discuss some important developments in interactional styles and methods
in Swedish investigative journalism interviewing. The most recent decade has seen …

Here I offer a reminder of some of the phenomenological and ethnomethodological roots of
conversation analysis (CA) in the form of a set of'field propositions'. Over the years, CA has …

One limitation widely noted in sociolinguistics is the tension presented by the 'observer׳ s
paradox'(Labov, 1972), ie the notion that everyday language is susceptible to contamination …