Harvey Sacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey Sacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacks |
| SIGNATURE | SACKS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6070 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally managed, party-administered, intera…
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The article is the first Russian translation of the most well-known piece in conversation analysis (CA), written by the founders of CA Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. It has become a milestone in the development of the discipline. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to the study of conversational interactions. The approach is based on the analysis of detailed transcripts of the records of natural conversations. The auth…
On Formal Structures of Practical Actions
The fact that natural language serves persons doing sociology, laymen or professionals, as circumstances, and as resources of their inquiries, furnishes to the technology of their inquiries and to their practical sociological reasoning its circumstances, and its resources. The remedial practices of practical sociological reasoning are aimed at accomplishing a thoroughgoing distinction between objective and indexical expressions with which to make…
An initial characterization of the organization of speaker turn-taking in conversation
Analysing Interaction: Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct
Home position
This paper describes a possible formal organizational device that serves to bound episodes of body movement such as gestures, fidgets, instrumental moves and the like. It involves a spate of movement — whether a single move or a series of moves — being completed by returning the moving body part to the position from which it departed at the outset. A series of specimens are examined which display this organizational device across a number of dime…
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
L'A. presente une analyse du texte de Max Weber consacre au Judaisme ancien. Il utilise le terme de reconstruction sociologique pour caracteriser le fait que la societe etudiee par Max Weber ne pouvait etre accessible a son observation directe. L'A. consacre son analyse avant tout a la methode employee par Weber pour operer cette reconstruction a partir des elements contenus dans l'Ancien Testament. L'A. demontre chez Weber la construction d'argu…
Lectures on Conversation
Volume 1: Fall 1964 - Spring 1965 Fall 1965 Spring 1966 Winter 1967 Spring 1967 Fall 1967 Spring 1968. Volume 2: Fall 1968 Winter 1969 Winter 1970 Spring 1970 Winter 1971 Spring 1971 Fall 1971 Spring 1972.
Appendix B. On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation
On members’ measurement systems
(1988). On members’ measurement systems. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 22, No. 1-4, pp. 45-60
On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in Conversation
Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy
Some considerations of a story told in ordinary conversations
On doing “being ordinary”
Usually I start the course by doing what I do in the course, without any programmatic statements and without any indication of why it should be of any interest to anybody. Now – and this may be unfair – the course will turn out to be much more severely technical than most of you could possibly be interested in, and some good percentage of people will drop out, and usually that has the consequence that they get nothing out of the class. So I decid…
Button Button Who's Got the Button
Convergence‐divergence and the learning of concrete and abstract sentences
School pupils (mean age 17 years) were classified as convergers or divergers on the basis of their performance on the AH5 Intelligence Test and the Uses of Objects test. They were presented with a set of concrete and abstract sentences, followed immediately by a forced‐choice recognition test. There was a significant interaction between abstractness‐concreteness and convergence‐divergence, in which the effect of the abstractness‐concreteness vari…
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
Opening up Closings
The paper presents some of the ways that have been developed for dealing with closings in conversation. Earlier work on conversation formulations of several problems that have been employed to cut into aspects of the data. One may derive an initial problem from a consideration of the most basic features of conversation that are now known of. A partial solution is developed. Problematic aspects of that solution lead to the derivation of another pr…
Tout le monde doit mentir
Sacks Harvey. Tout le monde doit mentir. In: Communications, 20, 1973. Le sociologique et le linguistique. pp. 182-203
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally managed, party-administered, intera…
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
Opening up Closings
The paper presents some of the ways that have been developed for dealing with closings in conversation. Earlier work on conversation formulations of several problems that have been employed to cut into aspects of the data. One may derive an initial problem from a consideration of the most basic features of conversation that are now known of. A partial solution is developed. Problematic aspects of that solution lead to the derivation of another pr…
Lectures on Conversation
Volume 1: Fall 1964 - Spring 1965 Fall 1965 Spring 1966 Winter 1967 Spring 1967 Fall 1967 Spring 1968. Volume 2: Fall 1968 Winter 1969 Winter 1970 Spring 1970 Winter 1971 Spring 1971 Fall 1971 Spring 1972.
On Formal Structures of Practical Actions
The fact that natural language serves persons doing sociology, laymen or professionals, as circumstances, and as resources of their inquiries, furnishes to the technology of their inquiries and to their practical sociological reasoning its circumstances, and its resources. The remedial practices of practical sociological reasoning are aimed at accomplishing a thoroughgoing distinction between objective and indexical expressions with which to make…
Home position
This paper describes a possible formal organizational device that serves to bound episodes of body movement such as gestures, fidgets, instrumental moves and the like. It involves a spate of movement — whether a single move or a series of moves — being completed by returning the moving body part to the position from which it departed at the outset. A series of specimens are examined which display this organizational device across a number of dime…
On members’ measurement systems
(1988). On members’ measurement systems. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 22, No. 1-4, pp. 45-60
Some considerations of a story told in ordinary conversations
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
L'A. presente une analyse du texte de Max Weber consacre au Judaisme ancien. Il utilise le terme de reconstruction sociologique pour caracteriser le fait que la societe etudiee par Max Weber ne pouvait etre accessible a son observation directe. L'A. consacre son analyse avant tout a la methode employee par Weber pour operer cette reconstruction a partir des elements contenus dans l'Ancien Testament. L'A. demontre chez Weber la construction d'argu…
Button Button Who's Got the Button
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The article is the first Russian translation of the most well-known piece in conversation analysis (CA), written by the founders of CA Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. It has become a milestone in the development of the discipline. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to the study of conversational interactions. The approach is based on the analysis of detailed transcripts of the records of natural conversations. The auth…
Tout le monde doit mentir
Sacks Harvey. Tout le monde doit mentir. In: Communications, 20, 1973. Le sociologique et le linguistique. pp. 182-203
Opening up Closings
The paper presents some of the ways that have been developed for dealing with closings in conversation. Earlier work on conversation formulations of several problems that have been employed to cut into aspects of the data. One may derive an initial problem from a consideration of the most basic features of conversation that are now known of. A partial solution is developed. Problematic aspects of that solution lead to the derivation of another pr…
Tout le monde doit mentir
Sacks Harvey. Tout le monde doit mentir. In: Communications, 20, 1973. Le sociologique et le linguistique. pp. 182-203
Convergence‐divergence and the learning of concrete and abstract sentences
School pupils (mean age 17 years) were classified as convergers or divergers on the basis of their performance on the AH5 Intelligence Test and the Uses of Objects test. They were presented with a set of concrete and abstract sentences, followed immediately by a forced‐choice recognition test. There was a significant interaction between abstractness‐concreteness and convergence‐divergence, in which the effect of the abstractness‐concreteness vari…
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
Button Button Who's Got the Button
On doing “being ordinary”
Usually I start the course by doing what I do in the course, without any programmatic statements and without any indication of why it should be of any interest to anybody. Now – and this may be unfair – the course will turn out to be much more severely technical than most of you could possibly be interested in, and some good percentage of people will drop out, and usually that has the consequence that they get nothing out of the class. So I decid…
Some considerations of a story told in ordinary conversations
On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in Conversation
Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy
Appendix B. On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation
On members’ measurement systems
(1988). On members’ measurement systems. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 22, No. 1-4, pp. 45-60
Lectures on Conversation
Volume 1: Fall 1964 - Spring 1965 Fall 1965 Spring 1966 Winter 1967 Spring 1967 Fall 1967 Spring 1968. Volume 2: Fall 1968 Winter 1969 Winter 1970 Spring 1970 Winter 1971 Spring 1971 Fall 1971 Spring 1972.
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
L'A. presente une analyse du texte de Max Weber consacre au Judaisme ancien. Il utilise le terme de reconstruction sociologique pour caracteriser le fait que la societe etudiee par Max Weber ne pouvait etre accessible a son observation directe. L'A. consacre son analyse avant tout a la methode employee par Weber pour operer cette reconstruction a partir des elements contenus dans l'Ancien Testament. L'A. demontre chez Weber la construction d'argu…
Analysing Interaction: Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct
Home position
This paper describes a possible formal organizational device that serves to bound episodes of body movement such as gestures, fidgets, instrumental moves and the like. It involves a spate of movement — whether a single move or a series of moves — being completed by returning the moving body part to the position from which it departed at the outset. A series of specimens are examined which display this organizational device across a number of dime…
An initial characterization of the organization of speaker turn-taking in conversation
On Formal Structures of Practical Actions
The fact that natural language serves persons doing sociology, laymen or professionals, as circumstances, and as resources of their inquiries, furnishes to the technology of their inquiries and to their practical sociological reasoning its circumstances, and its resources. The remedial practices of practical sociological reasoning are aimed at accomplishing a thoroughgoing distinction between objective and indexical expressions with which to make…
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The article is the first Russian translation of the most well-known piece in conversation analysis (CA), written by the founders of CA Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. It has become a milestone in the development of the discipline. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to the study of conversational interactions. The approach is based on the analysis of detailed transcripts of the records of natural conversations. The auth…
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally managed, party-administered, intera…
Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Communication (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Conversation (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works)