Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen
Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the …

Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in
conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that …

Conversation analysis is a method for the systematic study of interaction in terms of a
sequential turn-taking system. Research in conversation analysis has traditionally focused …

When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars
have assumed a category of things called actions:'requests','proposals','complaints','excuses' …

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as' interactive grammar',
based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the …

Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying Yeah. How
different would this make our communication? Relying on a large corpus of naturally …

In this article I examine the range of possible answers to polar questions. The focus is on
contrasting varieties of interjection answers with each other and with other answer types. I …

Several of the contributions to the Lynch et al. Special issue make the claim that
conversation-analytic research into epistemics is 'routinely crafted at the expense of actual …

In request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, interlocutors negotiate their social positions
regarding access and rights to knowledge. The article presents an overview of a quantitative …

Quantitative studies applying conversation analysis to the study of the timing of answers to
sequence-initiating actions expose anomalies in terms of what is known about preference …