Conversation analysis

The conversation analysis is a field of research that has contributed to the development of linguistic discourse analysis. It has an epistemologically independent position by consistently requirement has developed poor techniques. It emerged in the 1960s as part of the ethno- sociology in the United States and is usually less linguistically oriented than social science. The approximately simultaneous technological development of portable tape recorders came the development of the discipline in handy ( Auer 1993).

Prominent representatives of conversation analysis are Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson; in German-speaking countries would be about Peter Auer, Jörg Bergmann and Lorenza Mondada to call, and Werner Kallmeyer and Fritz Schütze, who made known the conversation analysis in the German language area.

In conversation analysis, among other everyday conversations in terms of rules and procedures are examined, which make communication partners they interact virtually. Conversations at work or in crisis situations are examined. There is always the "how" of the local behavior in the foreground as the participants have done that? Then what exactly happened? The under investigation calls are transcribed in great detail, and especially in regard to their sequential nature, ie, as successive utterances examined. Temporal overlap, the interactive negotiation of speech rights and micro communicative units ( delays, or particles, such as uh yeah ) standing in the narrow interest.

In Germany several transcription systems are used, in particular HIAT, GAT and those who adhere to the Jeffersonian conventions.

The conversation analysis is related to other ethnomethodologically oriented methods such as Membership Categorization Analysis and the analysis Mediendialogischer networks with which it is often used in combination.