Conversation Analysis. The Ethnomethodological Origin Issues and Concerns

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.