Conversation Analysis. The Ethnomethodological Origin

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, course: Conversation analysis-Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Conversation analysis (C.A), in general, is characterized by a vast diversity of theoretical beliefs, research practices and findings. Sociologists, sociolinguists, social psychologists, anthropologists, discourse analysts, educators, and many others have come to recognize the relevance of conversation for their respective disciplines. Natural conversation has, thus, become a research site for different explorations, not only because social interaction is to a large extent verbal interaction but also because talk exhibits "orderly" features, which upon analysis, turn out not be features of language but features of interaction.