Doing Conversation Analysis

By Paul Ten Have

Book Overview

This Second Edition of Paul ten Have′s now classic text on Doing Conversation Analysis has been substantially revised to bring the book up-to-date with the many changes that have occurred in Conversation Analysis over recent years.

The book has a dual purpose: to introduce the reader to Conversation Analysis (CA) as a specific research approach in the human sciences, and to provide students and novice researchers with methodological and practical suggestions for actually doing CA research.

The first part of the book sets out the core theoretical concepts that underpin CA and relates these to other approaches to qualitative analysis. The second and third parts detail the specifics of CA in its production of data, recordings, and transcripts, and its analytic strategies. The final part discusses ways in which CA can be ′applied′ in the study of specific institutional settings and for practical or critical purposes.

The book has been written for an audience of advanced students and novice researchers and should be vital reading for anyone interested in discourse analysis, the analysis of talk-in-interaction, or in qualitative methodology in general.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412921759
• ISBN13: 9781412921756
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the best introductions on how to do C.A.

Paul's book is excellent at conveying the 'ethos' or manner in which conversation analysts approach their data. This 'aesthetic' of the systematicity of human interaction is one of the hardest aspects for learners to grasp, and yet is crucial to the development of further innovations in this research area.Contrary to the opinion of one other reviewer, this book *does* discuss 'methodology', but not in the way most social science textbooks do: as a static, cookbook formula for churning out 'findings'. Instead, this book helps one to understand how to look at seemingly 'bland' aspects of human interaction, and see which places might have systematic variation and depth to them which can be described in detail. This is an excellent book for undergrads, grad. students and others learning, (or re-tooling and refreshing) their craft.