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Conversation analysis

Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction that investigates the methods members use to achieve mutual understanding through the transcription of naturally occurring conversations from audio or video. It focuses on both verbal and non-verbal conduct, especially in situations of everyday life. CA originated as a…

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Conversation analysis

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related to Bibliography · 45
Conversation analysis → Action, An Analysis, Beattie, Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Clayman, Conversation, Conversational Analysis, Doing Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Garfinkel, Geoffrey, George, Heritage, Hutchby, Ian, Identities, Institutions, Interactions
related to Interactional linguistics · 16
Conversation analysis → British, CA, Cognition, Conversation, IL, Interactional, Interactional Linguistics, Language, Levinson's, Max Planck Institute, Psycholinguistics, Studies, The, There, West Coast, While CA
related to history · 12
Conversation analysis → CA, Conversation, Emanuel Schegloff, Erving Goffman's, Gail Jefferson, Harold Garfinkel's, Harvey Sacks, John Searle, Noam Chomsky, Sacks, The, Today CA
related to Applied conversation analysis · 9
Conversation analysis → Conversation, For, John Heritage, More, Paul Drew, Talk, Tanya Stivers, This, Work
related to Contrasts to other theories about language · 9
Conversation analysis → CA, Conversation Analysts, Foucauldian, Garfinkel, Goffman's, In, Its, The, Unlike
related to External links · 8
Conversation analysis → CA, Conversation AnalysisAn Introduction, Discourse, ISCA, Loughborough University, Online, Rhetoric Group, The International Society
related to Turn-taking organization · 8
Conversation analysis → Conversation, Language, Simplest Systematics, Such, TCUs, The, TRPs, Turn
related to Basic structures · 2
Conversation analysis → Conversation, The
related to Criticism · 2
Conversation analysis → Another, Conversation

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analysis conversation turn interaction ca also methods action one speaker speakers focus sequence may talk example adjacency interactional transcription method

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the generativism of Noam Chomskyinstance ofbut also a number of minor sources of contemporary influences0.80text
its focus on building an apparatusinstance ofbut also a number of minor sources of contemporary influences0.80text
interactional sociolinguisticsinstance ofand works alongside related approaches0.80text
interactional linguisticsinstance ofand works alongside related approaches0.80text
discourse analysisinstance ofand works alongside related approaches0.80text
discursive psychologyinstance ofand works alongside related approaches0.80text
meetingsinstance ofinstitutional environments0.80text
courtsinstance ofinstitutional environments0.80text
news interviewsinstance ofinstitutional environments0.80text
mediation hearingsinstance ofinstitutional environments0.80text
which have distinctive turn-taking organizations that depart in various ways from ordinary conversationinstance ofinstitutional environments0.80text
the International Phonetic Alphabetinstance ofrather than a strict phonetic system0.80text

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