INTER-Encyclopedia: Conversation Analysis

Conversation Analysis

What kinds of social organizations are used as resources when people communicate through talk in interaction? It is this question that conversation analysis attempts to answer. Conversation analysis (CA) studies the methods participants orient to when they organize social action through talk. It investigates rules and practices from an interactional perspective and studies them by examining rec...

Reliability Analysis Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science

In reliability analysis one is interested in studying the reliability of a technological system being small or large. As examples of small systems we have washing machines and cars, whereas tankers, oilrigs and nuclear power plants are examples of large systems, see marine insurance, nuclear risks. By the reliability of a system we will mean the probability that it functions as intended. It mig...

Conversation Analysis and language learning

Interest in Conversation Analysis (CA) and its possible applications in the fields of language learning and language teaching has grown considerably over the last five years. There are now a range of publications which explore this area. The article therefore attempts to synthesise the current state of the research and identify the issues and problems that have arisen and those areas which are ...

35 Conversation Analysis and Psychology

(i) Much of psychology conceives of language in a noninteractive fashion, as the psychology of grammar and meaning, and as a matter of specifying the mental processes underlying comprehension and production. This is the established domain of experimental psycholinguistics, and of various approaches to language in experimental Social Psychology, such as ‘verb semantics’ models of causal attribut...

Conversation analysis as research methodology