This volume examines language-mediated interaction across a range of social settings,
activities, languages, and cultural contexts. It shows how participants in these diverse …

Interactional linguistics is grounded on the premise that language should not be analyzed in
terms of context-free linguistic structures but as a resource for the accomplishment of actions …

Conversation analysis initially drew its empirical materials from recordings of English
conversation. However, over the past 20 years conversation analysts have begun to …

In this comment, I hope I can be permitted to take for granted that, for communication
scholars, conversation analysis (CA) is a perspective that is here to stay. It has been a long …

The title of this book is Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives, a title which
appears to offer a well-defined promissory note about the nature of its contents? And so it …

In recent years, one major focus of conversation analysis (CA) has been to investigate how
knowledge is distributed and negotiated among participants in interaction. Research has …

There is a shared expectation that, ironically, seems to have created some tension between
ethnographers of communication and conversation analysts. 1 The expectation is, as …

Conversation analysis (CA) has repeatedly been criticized for being unresponsive to what
might be called the sociological agenda. Two objections in particular stand out. First, CA …

Conversation analysis (CA) is founded on a sociological conceptualization of the basically
social nature of language use in human interaction. However as the work in CA has …

The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of
conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and …