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Title Structures of social action : studies in conversation analysis / edited by J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1984

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Description xvi, 446 pages ; 24 cm
Series Studies in emotion and social interaction
Studies in emotion and social interaction.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Transcript notation -- 1. Introduction John Heritage and J. Maxwell Atkinson -- Part I. Orientations: 2. Notes on methodology Harvey Sacks -- 3. On some questions and ambiguities in conversation Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Part II. Preference Organization: 4. Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes Anita Pomerantz -- 5. Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals, dealing with potential or actual rejection Judy Davidson -- 6. Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences Paul Drew -- 7. Pursuing a response Anita Pomerantz -- Part III. Topic Organization: 8. Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors Graham Button and Neil Casey -- 9. On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters Gail Jefferson -- Part IV. The Integration of Talk With Nonvocal Activities: 10. Notes on story structure and the organization of participation Charles Goodwin -- 11. Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement Christian Health -- 12. On some gestures' relation to talk Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Part V. Aspects of Response: 13. A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement John Heritage -- 14. On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles Gail Jefferson -- 15. Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause J. Maxwell Atkinson -- Part VI. Everyday Activities as Sociological Phenomena: 16. On doing 'being ordinary' Harvey Sacks -- References -- Subject index -- Index of names
Analysis Conversation
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 430-440
Subject Conversation analysis.
Conversation.
Oral communication.
Author Atkinson, J. Maxwell (John Maxwell)
Heritage, John.
LC no. 84012169
ISBN 0521248159
0521318629 (paperback)