The Handbook of Conversation Analysis

The Handbook of Conversation Analysis presents a comprehensive and state–of–the–art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field. Organized into five sections, it outlines the history and theory, methods, fundamental concepts, and core contexts in the study of social interaction, as well as topics central to conversation analysis. Each section brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an in–depth review of these areas and their findings. Each chapter functions independently, allowing readers to quickly assess key research in each domain; combined, the chapters offer a comprehensive picture of what scholars hope to, and have already achieved, when approaching social interaction from a conversation analytic perspective. The handbook provides an introduction for students as well as an invaluable information resource and reference for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, interpersonal communication, discursive psychology and sociolinguistics.

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Introduction 1 Tanya Stivers and Jack Sidnell Part I Studying Social Interaction from a CA Perspective 9 2 Everyone and No One to Turn to: Intellectual Roots and Contexts for Conversation Analysis 11 Douglas W. Maynard 3 The Conversation Analytic Approach to Data Collection 32 Lorenza Mondada 4 The Conversation Analytic Approach to Transcription 57 Alexa Hepburn and Galina B. Bolden 5 Basic Conversation Analytic Methods 77 Jack Sidnell Part II Fundamental Structures of Conversation 101 6 Action Formation and Ascription 103 Stephen C. Levinson 7 Turn Design 131 Paul Drew 8 Turn–Constructional Units and the Transition–Relevance Place 150 Steven E. Clayman 9 Turn Allocation and Turn Sharing 167 Makoto Hayashi 10 Sequence Organization 191 Tanya Stivers 11 Preference 210 Anita Pomerantz and John Heritage 12 Repair 229 Celia Kitzinger 13 Overall Structural Organization 257 Jeffrey D. Robinson Part III Key Topics in CA 281 14 Embodied Action and Organizational Activity 283 Christian Heath and Paul Luff 15 Gaze in Conversation 308 Federico Rossano 16 Emotion, Affect and Conversation 330 Johanna Ruusuvuori 17 Affiliation in Conversation 350 Anna Lindström and Marja–Leena Sorjonen 18 Epistemics in Conversation 370 John Heritage 19 Question Design in Conversation 395 Kaoru Hayano 20 Response Design in Conversation 415 Seung–Hee Lee 21 Reference in Conversation 433 N. J. Enfield 22 Phonetics and Prosody in Conversation 455 Gareth Walker 23 Grammar in Conversation 475 Harrie Mazeland 24 Storytelling in Conversation 492 Jenny Mandelbaum Part IV Key Contexts of Study in CA: Populations and Settings 509 25 Interaction among Children 511 Mardi Kidwell 26 Conversation Analysis and the Study of Atypical Populations 533 Charles Antaki and Ray Wilkinson 27 Conversation Analysis in Psychotherapy 551 Anssi Peräkylä 28 Conversation Analysis in Medicine 575 Virginia Teas Gill and Felicia Roberts 29 Conversation Analysis in the Classroom 593 Rod Gardner 30 Conversation Analysis in the Courtroom 612 Martha Komter 31 Conversation Analysis in the News Interview 630 Steven E. Clayman Part V CA across the Disciplines 657 32 Conversation Analysis and Sociology 659 John Heritage and Tanya Stivers 33 Conversation Analysis and Communication 674 Wayne A. Beach 34 Conversation Analysis and Anthropology 688 Ignasi Clemente 35 Conversation Analysis and Psychology 701 Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards 36 Conversation Analysis and Linguistics 726 Barbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson, Cecilia E. Ford and Elizabeth Couper–Kuhlen References 741 Names Index 812 Topic Index 815

Jack Sidnell is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Talk and Practical Epistemology: The Social Life of Knowledge in a Caribbean Community (2005), the editor of Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives (2009) and the author of Conversation Analysis: An Introduction (2010). Tanya Stivers is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the author of Prescribing Under Pressure: Parent–Physician Conversations and Antibiotics (2007), and co–editor of Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives (with N. Enfield, 2007), and of The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation (with L. Mondada and J. Steensig, 2011).

“This magnificent volume is essential reading for specialists and interested non–specialists alike. Above all, it will provide a brilliant teaching resource. With this Handbook, CA has come of age.”  ( The Sociological Review , 21 October 2013) “However, these minor criticisms aside, the book is a must–have resource for  learning, teaching and conducting research in CA, and as such essential  reading for both students and academics.”  ( LINGUIST List , 15 July 2013)