Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis

245 Pages·2008·0.86 MB·English

by  Wooffitt, Robin.

Conversation Analysis
& Discourse Analysis
A Comparative and Critical Introduction
Robin Wooffitt
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Conversation
Analysis and
Discourse Analysis
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Conversation
Analysis and
Discourse Analysis
A Comparative and Critical Introduction
Robin Wooffitt
SAGE Publications
London ●Thousand Oaks ●New Delhi
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© Robin Wooffitt 2005
First published 2005
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For Wendy
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Origins and Orientations 5
2 Two Key Studies 25
3 Method and Critique 46
4 Similarities and Differences 71
5 Persuasion and Authority:CA and the Rhetorical
Turn in Discourse Studies 92
6 Discursive Psychology 113
7 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis 137
8 Methodological Disputes:How Should We
Analyse Talk? 158
9 Conversation Analysis and Power 186
Appendix:Transcription Symbols 211
References 213
Index 229
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my commissioning editor at Sage,Michael Carmichael.
Throughout the period of writing this book,he has been extremely helpful and
supportive;we had numerous meetings at which we discussed the (occasion-
ally slow) progress of the manuscript,and he always exuded a quiet confidence
in the project,which invariably fired my enthusiasm.He’s an excellent editor,
and it has been a pleasure working with him.(He is also largely responsible for
this book,probably much more so than most editors,for it was he who adroitly
sidestepped my initial proposal to write a book on an entirely different topic,
and gently suggested that I might like to consider writing something about the
relationship between CA and DA.So it's his fault,really.)
There is a community of scholars whose work has had an important influ-
ence on my own, and their research figures prominently in the pages which
follow; and whose company at various conferences around the world has been
great fun.You know who you are.To all of you,for providing such a supportive
intellectual and (extended) social environment,I thank you.
Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter deserve a special mention.They read
an earlier version of the manuscript and made numerous suggestions, all of
which have made this a better piece of work.
Finally,my debt to Wendy Tunnicliffe is enormous.For too long,I’ve been a
peripheral presence at weekends and in the evenings,and she has put up with
that without complaint.The dedication of this book to her in no way settles
the debt,but it’s a start.