In this article, I discuss the role of numbers and statistics within Conversation Analysis
(hereafter CA). Due to space limitations, I do not review CA (see Heritage, 1984) …

We turn first to what Hammersley regards as the 'rather misleading'notion of the one-way
mirror dilemma. Our use of this notion was intended to capture the kind of problem reactivity …

Dixon and Bortolussi (2001) argued that researchers should not investigate text processing
as being analogous to spoken conversation. They suggested that researchers studying text …

Context is a central concept in the analysis of discourse and interaction in all the major
research traditions in applied and sociolinguistics. Early linguistics did not display much …

In this introduction to the special issue on “Orders of Interaction in Mediated Settings,” we
explore the fundamentals of an ethnomethodological/conversation analytical perspective on …

This paper sets out an ethnomethodological approach to the study of gender and interaction,
and demonstrates how the topic of 'gender'can be studied empirically via its categorial …

Cover Coding Streams of Language is a systematic and practical research guide to coding
verbal data in all its forms—written texts and oral talk, in print or online, gathered through …

Informal conversation is a practice found among speakers of every language in every culture
on Earth. Or is it? Is conversation just one of many culturally variable speech genres, or is it …

We are told at the beginning of this book that using language is like dancing a waltz, playing
a piano duet or making love, in that they are all kinds of joint action. The key word in this …

Over the past 6 decades, researchers in conversation analysis have repeatedly shown that
everyday social activities such as inviting a friend over, interviewing a police suspect …