Conversation Analysis as Social Theory

The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 300-320

  Heritage, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaching experiments; Conversation Analysis (CA) as Social Theory; Epistemic order; Intersubjectivity and repair; Orders of analysis; Primacy of ordinary conversation; Sequence organizational problem; Structural analysis of action in ordinary conversation; Syntactical relations; Turn taking problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957944021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304992.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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