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Conversation Analysis: An Introduction by Jack Sidnell is a concise and clear primer to describing, analyzing, and understanding human talk. Combining theoretical descriptions and analysis of transcribed conversations, Sidnell (2010) explains the elements of conversational organization: turn-taking, action and understanding, preference, sequence, repair, turn construction, stories, and openings and closings. In addition, Sidnell opens the discussion about the role of topic and context in conversation analysis. Conversation Analysis: An Introduction is a good guide to conducting conversation analysis. This book is appropriate for those who are not familiar with conversation analysis and want to get a better understanding of this method and its major components. It can also be used to teach conversation analysis to undergraduate and graduate level students.

Summary In order to understand how mutual understanding was achieved in discursive interactions between the welfare service users and service practitioners, conversation analysis was conducted in four discussion panels set up for building consensus on the appropriate structure for user participation in service management. Conversations in eight panel discussion meetings were audio-taped for analysing the talks-in-interaction therein. Drawing on the conversation analysis, the article uncovers the dynamics of consensus building among participants from different epistemic communities. Findings The study identifies the extent of divergence in views among stakeholders, which could have been obscured by the pressure to acquiesce in platform of face-to-face coordination. In the contest for truth between the welfare service users and service practitioners, personal experience has not been accepted as legitimate resource for supporting truth claims. Having limited argument resources on issues of service management, the welfare service users perceived argumentation in panel discussion a threatening venture that they chose to avoid. Avoidance was also a strategy that panel participants employed to maintain mundane interactions in the face of looming dissents. The article argues that the Habermasian communicative ethics are not panacea to the problem of coordination between the welfare service users and service practitioners. An agonistic model of democracy is called for to shift the objective of communication from gauging consensus to encouraging articulation of disagreements in the intricate user participation project. Application The article provides a new direction for developing the user participation imperative to address necessary pluralities among stakeholders of welfare services.

Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts: Perspectives from Conversation AnalysisEdited by Anna Filipi, Binh Thanh Ta, and Maryanne Theobald(Springer, 2022)

Es ist nicht nur recht beschwerlich, sich durch die vielen unterschiedlichen diskursanalytischen Ansätze zur Untersuchung von Gesprächsinteraktionen hindurchzukämpfen. Eine zusätzliche Herausforderung besteht darin zu verstehen, ob und auf welche Art und Weise die je spezifische Methodik der hinter ihr liegenden theoretischen Komplexität gerecht wird. Hier scheinen Methoden notwendig, die hinreichend sensibel sind, um an der durch sie vermittelten Empirie überhaupt die Komplexität der dahinterliegenden Theorien zu demonstrieren, aus denen heraus erst der Wert und die Bedeutsamkeit einer Analyse entstehen kann. Um diese nicht einfache Aufgabe zu verdeutlichen, sollen zunächst einige aktuell diskutierte Spannungen zwischen zwei besonders prominenten Ansätzen – der Kritischen Diskursanalyse (CDA) und der Konversationsanalyse (CA) – beleuchtet werden. Im besonderen gilt die Aufmerksamkeit einigen neueren methodologischen Bemühungen um eine Verbindung zwischen CDA and CA. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird zu zeigen versucht, dass die "Positioning Analysis" einen gangbaren Weg bereithält, um die diskrepanten methodologischen Orientierungen mit den geteilten theoretischen Überzeugungen von CDA und CA zu vereinbaren.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research Design, Data Collection, and the Corpus -- 3. The Organization of FB Comment Threads -- 4. The Basic Sequence of FB Comment Threads: Tellings -- 5. The Nature of First-Post Tellings -- 6. Non-initial Tellings -- 7. Responses to Tellings -- 8. Later Comments -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Introduction -- 1 The centrality of storytelling to human interaction -- Section 1 Storytelling in the family -- 2 The shape and functions of pretend play in interactions with a parent: First stories -- 3 The stories we tell: Stories within family settings -- 4 (TBC - Storytelling practices in parent child interaction) -- 5 Recipiency around the Dinner Table: Aligning, Disaligning and Misaligning with a storytelling -- Part 2 Storytelling in school -- 6 Enduring storytelling dispositions in early childhood education -- 7 Short stories in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms -- 8 The collaborative emergence of storytelling in an after-school foreign language primary classroom -- 9 Tellings in tests: Some constraints on storytelling sequences in L2 oral proficiency tests -- 10 "Did the teacher …": The storytelling practices of two English Language Learners -- 11 Reconstructing refugee students' experience of classroom practices from their tellings -- Part 3 Storytelling in Higher Education -- 12 Teacher storytelling in an English as a Second Language 'meaning -and-fluency' class -- 13 "I remember when I was in Valencia": Student-teacher story-telling and co-construction of identities -- 14 Giving advice through hypothetical storytelling: A Conversation Analytic study of supervisory interaction between doctoral students and supervisors -- Conclusion -- 15 Considerations for parenting and educating.

This paper traces the ways in which culture has been integrated into linguistic research in the past 30 years. Recently, more and more authors seem to cautiously refrain from considering culture in their linguistic studies. One reason for this cautiousness may be found in cultural anthropology's concerns on the deterministic effects of considering culture as a concept of research at all. This paper proposes a concept for precise descriptions of culture in interaction avoiding the risk of imposing culturalist interpretations from a researcher's perspective. To this aim, approaches from ethno-methodology's membership categorization analysis (MCA) are combined with Judith Butler's assumptions on the performativity of discourse and interaction.