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Conversation Analysis
Abstract
We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the field that has done more than any other to illuminate the mechanics of interaction. Starting by locating CA by reference to a number of cognate disciplines investigating language in use, it provides an overview of the origins and methodology of CA. By using conversational data from a range of languages, it examines the basic apparatus of sequence organisation: turn-taking, preference, identity construction and repair. As the basis for these investigations, the book uses the twin analytic resources of action and sequence to throw new light on the origins and nature of language use.
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“In the next turn, the discourse marker 'but' (line 2) therefore marks the victim's response as dispreferred (Clift, 2016), resisted on the grounds that he has complied with the offender's previous request (thereby challenging the offender's deontic right, and attempting to work up an equal deontic status).”
From A discursive analysis of compliance, resistance and escalation to threats in sexually exploitative interactions between offenders and male children (2021) · cites this paper as Clift, 2016
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Seymour‐Smith, S., & Kloess, J. A. (2021) · British Journal of Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjso.12437 · Cited by 38
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- Authors
- Clift, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Essex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Clift, Rebecca
- ORCID
- Clift, Rebecca
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2016-09-08
- OpenAlex
- W4243286793
- Cited by
- 220
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 19.03
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Keywords
- conversation analysis, turn-taking, preferences, identity construction, repair, action, language use, interaction, pragmatics, discourse analysis
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