We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven
thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate …

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture,
with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of …

INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE METHODS provides a series of volumes which introduce
qualitative research to the student and beginning researcher. The approach is …

The research reported in this chapter is intended as a contribution to an understanding of
the basic linguistic units used by speakers in spontaneous communication. Our interest is in …

How is qualitative social research possible? That is a question that one can try to answer in
many different ways. How is it possible in principle? How is it possible in actual practice …

This is an exciting time for psychology. A number of methodologies consonant with a shift to
a post-positivist, non-experimental paradigm are now emerging and they are beginning to …

Approaches to Discourse Particles, a collection of twenty-three papers, each written by a
different author, presents an invaluable contribution to both the narrower field of discourse …

The notion of Turn-Constructional Unit (TCU) in Conversation Analysis has become unclear
for many researchers. The underlying problems inherent in the definition of this notion are …

The idea that interaction between physicians and their patients is “asymmetrical” is widely
shared among both participants and observers of medical encounters. It is assumed as a …

This study investigates in detail the interaction between interviewers and respondents in
standardised social survey interviews. Applying the techniques of conversation analysis …