Conversation Analysis
Definition:
Conversation analysis is an approach to the study of natural conversation, especially with a view to determining the following:
- Participants’ methods of
- turn-taking
- constructing sequences of utterances across turns
- identifying and repairing problems, and
- employing gaze and movement
- How conversation works in different conventional settings
Examples:
Here are some examples of conventional settings in which conversation analysis could take place:
- Interviews
- Court hearings
- Telephone conversations
- Card games
Source:
294–296
169–170, 173
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.