Anapproach to the study of human social interaction and conversation. It was developed by the sociologist Harvey Sacks andcolleagues Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson, influenced by HaroldGarfinkel’s ethnomethodology (see Heritage, 2008).
See Content analysis, Discourse analysis, Narrative, Qualitative research
Heritage, J. (2008). Conversationanalysis as social theory. In B. Turner (Ed.), The new Blackwell companionto social theory (pp. 300-320). Oxford: Blackwell.