TALKING WITH CHILDREN
TALKING WITH CHILDREN

 

Introductory texts

Sidnell, J. (2010). Conversation Analysis: An Introduction. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.

Heath,C. Hindmarsh, J. & Luff, P. (2010). Video in Qualitative Research: Analysing Social Interaction in Everyday Life. London, Sage Publications

Readings for Researchers

  1. Sacks, H. (1984b) On doing “being ordinary. In Atkinson, J.M. & Heritage, J. (eds.) Structures of Social action: Studies in Conversation Analysis (pp. 413-429). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  2. Ta, B. (forthcoming, 2023) Conversation analysis. In A Conversation Analytic Approach to Doctoral Supervision Feedback, Advice and Guidance. (pp.36-74). Routledge.

  3. Heritage, J. (1984), Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press. Chapter on conversation analysis.

  4. Levinson, S. C. (1983), Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter on conversation.

  5. Waring, H.Z. (2021), Conversation analysis, In The Bloomsbury companion to discourse analysis (2nd edition) (K. Hyland, B. Paltridge & L. Wong, eds.), Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 21-33.

  6. Mondada, L. (2017), Conversation Analysis, In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue (Edda Weigand, ed.), Routledge, pp. 26–45.

  7. Clift, R. Drew,P. & Hutchby, I. (2009). Conversation analysis. In The Pragmatics of Interaction (Sigurd D'Hondt, Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, eds.), Amsterdam, John Benjamins.

  8. Dennis Day, Johannes Wagner, (2008), "Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis", In Handbook of Interpersonal Communication (Gerd Antos, Elja Ventola, eds.), Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 33–52. [bibtex] [edit] [pdf] [doi]

  9. `Michael Lynch, (2007), "The origins of ethnomethodology", In Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology (Stephen P. Turner, Mark W. Risjord, eds.), Amsterdam, Oxford, Elsevier, pp. 485–515.


  10. Gene H. Lerner, (2004), "Collaborative turn sequences", In Conversation Analysis: Studies from the First Generation (Gene H. Lerner, ed.), Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins, pp. 225–256. [bibtex] [edit] [pdf] [doi]





    Levinson, S. (2006) Cognition at the heart of interaction. Discourse Studies, 8(1), 85-93.


    because it gets at how studying interaction can teach us much about cognition (i.e. what your friend was asking about learning Wei)

    The next piece of Sacks I would read would be:

    Sacks, H. (1984), Notes on methodology. In J. M. Atkinson and J. Heritage (eds), Structures

    of social action: Studies in conversation analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University
    Press.

    And the paper I mentioned about being wary of getting too attached to categories is:

    Enfield, N. & Sidnell, J. (2017). On the concept of interaction in the study of interaction. Discourse Studies, 19(5), 515-535.

Approaches to analysis


Heritage,J. (2010). Conversation Analysis: Practices and methods. In D. Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Sociology (3rd edition) pp. 208-230. London, SAGE,