Conversation Analysis

AY2015/2016 Semester 1

The course begins with an introduction to the conventions used in Conversation Analysis for the transcription of naturally occurring speech interaction. Transcripts are then presented and studied in relation to a number of topics on which scholarly work has been done. Topics include: turn-taking, adjacency pairs, opening and closing, agreement and disagreement, pre-sequences, preference organization, repair, and the requesting, giving, and reception of information in conversation.