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• Cover
• Half title
• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Preface
• The disciplinary scope of the book
• Linguistic data
• A note on how to use this book
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: why study conversation?
• 1.1 The basics: the ‘Two Things’
• 1.2 The view from linguistics
• 1.2.1 The search for meaning
• On semantic meaning: stability in action
• Pragmatic meaning: three perspectives
• (a) Speech Act Theory
• (b) Gricean implicature
• (c) Relevance Theory
• 1.2.2 Observational approaches
• (a) Sociolinguistics
• (b) Interactional linguistics
• (c) Interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology
• 1.3 Beyond language: discourse analysis and CA
• 1.4 Action and sequence: the implications
• 1.5 The organisation of this volume and overview of chapters
• 2 Towards an understanding of action: origins and perspectives
• 2.1 On Goffman and Garfinkel
• 2.2 Harvey Sacks: from ethnomethodology to conversation analysis
• 2.3 Jefferson’s transcription system
• 2.4 Capturing phenomena
• 2.4.1 Developments of the Jefferson system
• 2.5 CA transcription conventions: an overview
• 1. Preliminaries [C]
• 2. Temporal and sequential relationships
• 3. Aspects of speech delivery
• 4. Other markings
• 3 Why that, now? Position and composition in interaction
• 3.1 On position and composition
• 3.1.1 How position matters: What are you doing?
• 3.2 Adjacency and the adjacency pair
• 3.2.1 Adjacency and cross-linguistic validity
• 3.3 Expansion beyond the adjacency pair
• 3.3.1 Pre-expansion
• 3.3.2 Insert expansion
• 3.3.3 Post-expansions
• (a) Minimal post-expansions
• (b) Non-minimal post-expansions
• 3.4 The sequence: coherence and distributed cognition
• 3.5 Conclusion: ‘sequence’ as infrastructure and context
• 4 Interaction in time: the centrality of turn-taking
• 4.1 Turn-taking: an overview
• 4.2 A sketch of ‘a simplest systematics’
• 4.2.1 The turn-constructional component
• Syntactic completion
• Prosodic and phonetic features of completion
• Pragmatic markers of completion
• 4.2.2 The turn-allocational component
• Current speaker selects next speaker
• Next speaker self-selects
• (a) Pre-possible completion
• (b) Pre-beginnings
• 4.2.3 Beyond the first TCU
• 4.3 The turn-taking rules
• 4.4 More than one at a time: ‘interruption’, overlap and choral production
• 4.5 No-one speaking: forms of silence
• 4.6 Transforming silence: the role of grammar
• 4.7 Local variation, universal system?
• 4.8 Conclusion: grammar and social organisation in context
• 5 The structure of sequences I: preference organisation
• 5.1 Preference organisation: an introduction
• 5.1.1 Preference and adjacency pairs
• Preference and initiating turns
• Preference and responsive turns
• (a) Action preferences
• (b) Format preferences
• 5.1.2 Actions and formats: interactional implications
• 5.1.3 An exception
• 5.1.4 Between preferred and dispreferred: agendas, social norms and deontic authority in responsive turns
• Answers to questions: conformity and resistance
• Compliment responses
• Resistance in response
• 5.1.5 Preference and action categories
• 5.2 Preference and the recognition of action
• 5.3 Preference in person reference
• 5.3.1 Preference, principles and defaults in person reference
• 5.3.2 Preference and grammaticalisation
• 5.3.3 Departures from default usage
• 5.4 Conclusion: preference in the turn and the sequence
• 6 The structure of sequences II: knowledge and authority in the construction of identity
• 6.1 Identity in CA: the ‘membership categorisation device’
• 6.1.1 Categories and collections of categories
• 6.1.2 The rules of application
• 6.2 Knowledge and authority as resources for action recognition
• 6.2.1 Territories of knowledge in interaction
• Epistemic authority and subordination in assessing
• Epistemic domains, mobilising response and the epistemic engine
• Epistemics and identity
• 6.2.2 Authority in interaction
• 6.3 Conclusion: knowledge, authority and agency in indirection
• 7 Halting progressivity: the organisation of repair
• 7.1 Self-repair
• 7.1.1 Self-initiated self-repair in same TCU
• 7.1.2 Self-initiated transition-space repairs
• 7.1.3 Third position repairs
• 7.1.4 Self-initiated other-repair
• Gaze in self-initiated other-repair
• 7.2 Other-repair
• 7.2.1 Understanding checks
• 7.2.2 Partial repeats
• 7.2.3 Partial repeat + wh-word
• 7.2.4 Wh-word
• 7.2.5 Open class repair initiator
• 7.3 Implicit forms of repair initiation: embodiment and gaze
• 7.4 Conclusion: the defence of intersubjectivity
• 8 Conclusion: discovering order
• References
• Author index
• General index