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date: 11 December 2019

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The text that follows offers in its first section four early engagements with brief bits of ordinary conversation that launched the form of analysis known as conversation-analytic work. This is followed by five subsections that sketch five of the several domains of analysis central to conversation analysis over the last fifty or so years: turns and turn constructions; sequences of actions-through-talk; trouble in talking actions and repair of that trouble; selection of words that compose the turns that compose the sequences; the overall structural organization of talk-in-interaction whether in recurrent clusters or sustained occasions of conversation. A brief upshot brings the text to conclusion.

Keywords: conversation analysis, conversation, organization, turns, sequences, trouble, repair, word selection, overall structural organization

Emanuel A. Schegloff

Emanuel A. Schegloff is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Applied Linguistics, UCLA. He was educated at Harvard College (BA, 1958 magna cum laude) and at the University of California, Berkeley (MA 1960, PhD 1967). Most of his teaching has been at Columbia University (1965-1972) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1972-2010), with research leaves at Rockefeller University (1972), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1978-1979), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA (1998-1999), the last of these supported by a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is the author of over 100 publications, including the book Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in Conversation Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and papers in many interdisciplinary volumes and diverse journals (e.g., American Anthropologist, American Journal of Sociology, Applied Linguistics, Discourse & Society, Discourse Processes, Discourse Studies, Gesture, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, Language and Speech, Language in Society, Linguistics, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Semiotica, Social Problems, Social Research, and Social Psychology Quarterly inter alia).

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