Book description
Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical
and descriptive research in the field,
The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
brings together contributions by leading international experts to
provide 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.
- Ideal as an introduction to the field for upper level
undergraduates and as an in-depth review of the latest developments
for graduate level students and established scholars
- Five sections outline the history and theory, methods, fundamental
concepts, and core contexts in the study of conversation, as well as
topics central to conversation analysis
- Written by international conversation analysis experts, the book
covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, from reviewing
underlying structures of conversation, to describing conversation
analysis' relationship to anthropology, communication, linguistics,
psychology, and sociology
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).
