Conversation Analysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18943751
AutoresAnssi Peräkylä (0000-0003-1633-1966, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Fecha de publicación2007-02-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoOTHER
RevistaThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc133
OpenAlexW4243056918
ISBN9781405165518
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas42
Referencias citadas13

Conversation analysis (CA) is a method for investigating the structure and process of social interaction between humans. It focuses primarily on talk, but integrates also the nonverbal aspects of interaction in its research design. As their data, CA studies use video or audio recordings made from naturally occurring interaction. As their results, CA studies yield descriptions of recurrent structures and practices of social interaction. Some of these, such as turn taking or sequence structure, are involved in all interaction, whereas others are more specific and have to do with particular actions, such as asking questions or delivering and receiving news, assessments, or complaints. CA studies can focus either on ordinary conversations taking place between acquaintances or family members, or on institutional encounters where the participants accomplish their institutional tasks through their interaction. CA elucidates basic aspects of human sociality that reside in talk, and it examines the ways in which specific social institutions are invoked in, and operate through, talk

Conversation · Conversation analysis · Ethnomethodology · Nonverbal communication · Social relation · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology