The Language of Turn and Sequence

by Ford, Cecilia E.; Fox, Barbara A.; Thompson, Sandra A.

• ISBN13: 9780195124897
• ISBN10: 0195124898
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers engage in conversation and other forms of social interaction involving language. Its proponents are not only linguists but sociologists and anthropologists as well. The unifying theme of these chapters is the intersection of practice and form through the construction of turns and sequences.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(11)
Cecilia E. Ford
Barbara A. Fox
Sandra A. Thompson
Constituency and the Grammer of Turn Increments	14	(25)
Cecilia E. Ford
Barbara A. Fox
Sandra A. Thompson
Cultivating Prayer	39	(17)
Lisa Capps
Elinor Ochs
Producing Sense with Nonsense Syllables: Turn and Sequence in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia	56	(25)
Charles Goodwin
Marjorie H. Goodwin
David Olsher
Contingent Achievement of Co-Tellership in a Japanese Conversation: An Analysis of Talk, Gaze, and Gesture	81	(42)
Makoto Hayashi
Junko Mori
Tomoyo Takagi
Saying What Wasn't Said: Negative Observation as a Linguistic Resource for the Interactional Achievement of Performance Feedback	123	(42)
Sally Jacoby
Patrick Gonzales
Recipient Activities: The Particle No as a Go-Ahead Response in Finnish Conversations	165	(31)
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Oh-Prefaced Responses to Assessments: A Method of Modifying Agreement/Disagreement	196	(29)
John Heritage
Turn-Sharing: The Choral Co-Production of Talk-in-Interaction	225	(32)
Gene H. Lerner
Some Linguistic Aspects of Closure Cut-Off	257	(30)
Robert Jasperson
Index	287