Lectures on Conversation - 2 volume set.

Jefferson, Gail and Harvey Sacks [Ed.]:

ISBN 10: 1557862192 / ISBN 13: 9781557862198

Published by Blackwell Publishers, 1992

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818, 580 p. Guter Zustand. 2 Bände, ohne Schutzumschläge. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln und Signatur auf Einband. Sonst Seiten sauber. / Good. 2 volumes, no dust jackets. Ex-library with usual markings. Clean pages. ISBN of volumes / der Einzelbände: 155786358x / 1557863598 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2500.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on Conversation - 2 volume set.
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557862192
• ISBN 13: 9781557862198
• Binding: Hardcover/Pappeinband.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 2500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sprachwissenschaft-allgemein

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Synopsis

This two-volume work presents the entire corpus of lectures by a writer whose thought and method influenced a generation of linguists and sociologists. Volume one contains the lectures delivered at UCLA, from Fall 1964 through Spring 1968. They touch on a great variety of topics, but two key issues emerge, rules of conversational sequencing and membership categorization devices. It culminates in the extensive and formal explication of turn-taking delivered in Fall 1967. Volume two contains the lectures delivered at Univerity of California, Irvine from Fall 1968 through Spring 1972. As in Volume one, these lectures touch on a wide range of subjects, and the investigations of storytelling and conversational sequencing, begun in the earlier volume, continues. It culminates in the dissertation on adjacency pairs delivered in Spring 1972.

From the Back Cover

This project makes available for the first time the entire corpus of lectures by a writer whose thought and method influenced a generation of sociologists and sociolinguists.

Originally published as two volumes, this special comprehensive single-volume edition contains the complete lectures, beginning with the lectures delivered at UCLA, from Fall 1964 through Spring 1968. Sacks explores a great variety of topics, but two key issues emerge: rules of conversational sequencing, and membership categorization devices. The lectures culminate in the extensive and formal explication of turn-taking delivered in Fall 1967.

The second half contains the lectures delivered at UC Irvine from Fall 1968 through Spring 1972. Again, Sacks touches on a wide range of subjects, such as the poetics of ordinary talk, the integrative function of public tragedy, and pauses in the spelling out of a word. The central theme is storytelling in conversation, with an attendant focus on topic. The volume culminates in the elegant dissertation on adjacency pairs which Sacks delivered in Spring, 1972.