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CONVERSATION
ANALYSIS Conversation
analysis (CA) uses audio (and often visual) recordings of social interactions
which are used to create transcripts in a modified standard orthography. These transcripts are written in
more-or-less standard language with additional notation to indicate important
features such as volume, pitch, intonation, overlaps, pauses etc. Depending on the purposes of the analysis,
body movements might also be noted. These methods are designed to capture the
sequential features of interactions. CA is a
research tradition which grew out of ethnomethodology, as such it is
interested in participants methods for interacting and understanding verbal
or non-verbal actions. Since Harvey Sacks began using CA methods in the 1960s
a large body of work has been produced which describes the orderliness of
interaction through the systematic deployment of specific interactional
devices and conformity to social norms. These methods of interaction are used
and oriented to by people to create everyday social situations. However, they
are generally not consciously recognised and therefore form a ‘seen but
unnoticed’ structure for communication and human interaction. Gaining a precise
understanding of this structure of interaction is a crucial, yet often
neglected, requirement for a wide range of activities whether one is
developing communication technologies, writing a film script or providing
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