Drew2024a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Drew2024a |
| Author(s) | Paul Drew |
| Title | The History of a Collection: Apologies |
| Editor(s) | Jeffrey D. Robinson, Rebecca Clift, Kobin H. Kendrick, Chase Wesley Raymond |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Apologies, Collections |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cambridge |
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| Pages | 253-275 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108936583.011 |
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| Book title | The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis |
| Chapter | 11 |
Abstract
Making collections of conversational/interactional phenomena is a cornerstone of CA’s methodology. Our aim in CA research is to identify the practices through which speakers of a natural language conduct action in inter-action, the practices that enable speakers to engage in conduct that is meaningful to one another (the accountability-as-intelligibility of social conduct). The practices for talk-in-interaction are recurrent phenomena; they are to be found in recurrent patterns of talk – in recurrent sequential positions or environments, in recurrent sequence patterns, and in recurrent features of turn design such as linguistic format including morphosyntactic constructions. Whilst recurrence may not by itself be a sufficient condition for determining that an object or pattern constitutes a practice, it is a necessary condition. It is necessary to show that an object, pattern etc. works in a particular way systematically – and ‘systematically’ requires recurrence. Thus, the identification, the discovery or uncovering of practices in talk-in-interaction rests on building collections of cases of a phenomenon in order to find whether it is systematically associated with some recurrent pattern. In this chapter I describe the history of one such collection assembled by Gail Jefferson, a collection of apologies that served as the basis for several analyses and publications.
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