Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis

by David Silverman

Harvey Sacks's early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his lifetime, his lectures and papers were enormously influential in sociology and sociolinguistics, and they played a major role in the development of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The recent publication of Sacks's Lectures on Conversation has provided an excellent opportunity for a wide-ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195214730
• ISBN13: 9780195214734
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"