Chapter 15. Conversation Analysis as Social Theory

  1. Professor Bryan S. Turner Professor
  1. John Heritage Professor

Published Online: 2 MAR 2009

DOI: 10.1002/9781444304992.ch15

Book Title

The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

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How to Cite

Heritage, J. (2009) Conversation Analysis as Social Theory, in The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (ed B. S. Turner), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444304992.ch15

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  1. Alona Evans Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College Boston, USA

Author Information

  1. UCLA, USA

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 2 MAR 2009
  2. Published Print: 5 SEP 2008

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781405169004

Online ISBN: 9781444304992

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Keywords:

  • Conversation Analysis (CA) as Social Theory;
  • syntactical relations;
  • breaching experiments;
  • structural analysis of action in ordinary conversation;
  • primacy of ordinary conversation;
  • orders of analysis;
  • turn-taking problem;
  • sequence organizational problem;
  • intersubjectivity and repair;
  • epistemic order

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Background

  • Conversation Analysis

  • Orders of Analysis

  • The Interaction Order as an Institution

  • The Interaction Order and Societal Institutions

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgment

  • Bibliography

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