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Structures of social action : studies in conversation analysis / edited by J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Studies in emotion and social interactionPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984Description: 446 sISBN:
  • 0521318629
  • 0521248159
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.346 23/swe
Other classification:
  • F:oa
  • F.024
  • F:do
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 302.3 Structures Available 11156000082744
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bringing together thirteen original papers by leading American and British researchers, this volume reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis. It begins by outlining the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field and goes on to develop some of the main themes that have emerged from topical empirical research. These include the organisation of preference, topic, non-vocal activities, and apparently spontaneous responses such as laughter and applause. The collection represents the most comprehensive statement yet to be published on this type of research.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Transcript notation
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I Orientations
  • 2 Notes on methodology
  • 3 On some questions and ambiguities in conversation
  • Part II Preference Organization
  • 4 Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes
  • 5 Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals, dealing with potential or actual rejection
  • 6 Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences
  • 7 Pursuing a response
  • Part III Topic Organization
  • 8 Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors
  • 9 On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters
  • Part IV The Integration of Talk With Nonvocal Activities
  • 10 Notes on story structure and the organization of participation
  • 11 Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement
  • 12 On some gestures' relation to talk
  • Part V Aspects of Response
  • 13 A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement
  • 14 On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles
  • 15 Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause
  • Part VI Everyday Activities as Sociological Phenomena
  • 16 On doing 'being ordinary'
  • References
  • Subject index
  • Index of names