Doing Conversation Analysis

by Paul ten Have

• ISBN13: 9781412921756
• ISBN10: 1412921759
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This Second Edition of Paul ten Have's now classic text on Doing Conversation Analysis has been substantially revised to bring the book up-to-date with the many changes that have occurred in Conversation Analysis over recent years. The book has a dual purpose: to introduce the reader to Conversation Analysis (CA) as a specific research approach in the human sciences, and to provide students and novice researchers with methodological and practical suggestions for actually doing CA research.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Considering CA	p. 1
Introducing the CA Paradigm	p. 3
What is 'conversation analysis'?	p. 3
The emergence of conversation analysis	p. 5
The development of conversation analysis	p. 7
Why do conversation analysis?	p. 9
Contrastive properties	p. 9
Requirements	p. 10
Rewards	p. 10
Purpose and plan of the book	p. 11
Exercise	p. 13
Recommended reading	p. 13
Notes	p. 13
Three Exemplary Studies	p. 14
Harvey Sacks' first lecture	p. 14
Schegloff's 'sequencing in conversational openings'	p. 16
Schegloff and Sacks on 'opening up closings'	p. 18
Discussion	p. 23
Exercise	p. 25
Recommended reading	p. 25
Notes	p. 25
Ideas and Evidence in CA Research	p. 26
CA's 'image'	p. 26
A 'dialogue of ideas and evidence'	p. 27
Ideas	p. 29
Evidence	p. 31
Understanding	p. 32
CA's emic interests	p. 34
A 'specimen perspective'	p. 35
A logic of induction?	p. 36
CA's rationale	p. 38
Exercise	p. 39
Recommended reading	p. 40
Notes	p. 41
CA and Different Disciplinary Agendas	p. 42
CA and ethnomethodology	p. 43
Membership categorization analysis (MCA)	p. 45
Ethnomethodological critiques of CA	p. 47
CA and linguistics	p. 50
CA and discursive psychology	p. 54
CA and 'critical' approaches to discourse and interaction	p. 57
CA and feminist concerns	p. 60
Exercise	p. 63
Recommended reading	p. 64
Notes	p. 64
Producing Data	p. 65
Collecting/Producing Recordings	p. 67
Research design	p. 67
'Naturalism'	p. 68
Sampling issues	p. 69
Audio or video	p. 71
Recordings and other sources of information	p. 73
Hunting for data	p. 78
Consent	p. 79
Radio/TV broadcasts	p. 81
Existing recordings	p. 82
Making field recordings: social issues	p. 82
Making field recordings: technical issues	p. 88
Exercise	p. 90
Recommended reading	p. 91
Notes	p. 91
Transcribing Talk-in-Interaction	p. 93
What is involved in 'transcription'	p. 93
The functions of transcripts	p. 95
Elements in constructing transcript files	p. 96
Time, date, and place of the original recording	p. 97
Identification of the participants	p. 97
Words as spoken	p. 98
Sounds as uttered	p. 99
Inaudible or incomprehensible sounds or words	p. 100
Spaces/silences	p. 101
Overlapped speech and sounds	p. 103
Pace, stretches, stresses, volume, etc.	p. 104
Formatting issues	p. 105
Adding visual information	p. 108
Translation	p. 109
Practical issues	p. 110
Software support: Transana	p. 112
Learning to transcribe	p. 113
Exercise	p. 114
Recommended reading	p. 114
Notes	p. 114
Analysing Data	p. 117
Analytic Strategies	p. 119
How to begin	p. 120
Questions to ask and areas to consider	p. 122
A general strategy for data exploration	p. 124
A data fragment	p. 126
Four types of interactional organization	p. 128
Turn-taking organization	p. 128
Sequence organization	p. 130
Repair organization	p. 133
The organization of turn-design	p. 136
Discussion	p. 140
Data sessions	p. 140
Exercise	p. 142
Recommended reading	p. 143
Notes	p. 143
Elaborating the Analysis	p. 144
On comparison in CA	p. 144
Data selection in analytic elaboration	p. 146
Theoretical sampling	p. 147
Comprehensive data treatment	p. 147
Generalization	p. 149
Demonstration	p. 151
On countability: quantitative CA?	p. 157
The case for case-by-case analysis	p. 162
An illustration	p. 162
A general strategy for data elaboration	p. 164
Notes on the analysis of visual data	p. 165
Exercise	p. 168
Recommended reading	p. 169
Notes	p. 169
Applied CA	p. 171
Applied CA: Institutional Interaction	p. 173
CA - 'pure' and 'applied'	p. 174
'Conversation' versus 'institutional interaction'	p. 174
Turn-taking, questioning, and 'control'	p. 177
Using CA to study institutional practices	p. 179
Demonstration: standardized survey interviewing	p. 182
Exercises	p. 191
Recommended reading	p. 192
Notes	p. 192
Applied CA: Local Rationalities, Formal Knowledge, and Critical Concerns	p. 194
On the usability of CA findings	p. 194
Plans, practices, and accounts	p. 197
Examples of 'applied CA' 1: studies of 'impaired' communication	p. 198
Examples of 'applied CA' 2: 'human-computer interaction' and 'workplace studies'	p. 202
Examples of 'applied CA' 3: Feminist CA studies	p. 206
Doing CA: 'pure' and 'applied'	p. 209
Conclusion	p. 211
Exercise	p. 212
Recommended reading	p. 212
Notes	p. 212
Appendices	p. 213
Transcription Conventions	p. 215
Glossary	p. 217
Tips for Presentations and Publications	p. 220
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 243
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