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  • 1 - Conversation Analysis

  • from Part I - Language in Context: A Sociohistorical Perspective
  • Edited by Jesús Romero-Trillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Language in Context
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 9-48

  • Summary

    Conversation Analysis (CA) is a major contributing discipline to the study of language use and social action in context. Originating in the discipline of sociology, it forms the basis for the burgeoning field of interactional linguistics. This chapter offers an overview of major themes in the field. Beginning with a brief discussion of the intellectual background of the field, the chapter sketches three distinctive levels of analysis: sequential organization, practices of turn construction, and the organization of these practices as sets of resources for dealing with recurrent problems in the social organization of interaction. Sections of the chapter deal with sequence organization, preference, turn design, the fitting of talk to specific contexts and recipients (recipient design), progressivity, multimodality, and interaction in the context of specific social institutions such as medicine, legal discourse, and news conferences.