Conversation analytic studies have shown many dynamic ways of answering and resisting questions across languages.
This conversation analytic study explicates the sequentially-specific syntactic formats of offers.
This study has implications for conversation analytic work on turn design, repair, and action projection while broadening the scope of existing research on discourse markers and educational discourse.
This paper provides a conversation analytic description of the particle dige in turn-final position in Farsi conversation, and demonstrates its function as an epistemic marker.
Analyzing video-recordings of university-level writing conferences, this conversation analytic study identifies interactional practices through which participants orient to the preference structure of talk-in-interaction.
The data, 20 police interrogations (22 h) and 20 job interviews (14 h), are analyzed from a conversation analytic perspective (e.g. Heritage and Clayman, 2010).
One challenge for conversation analytic research on identity is to demonstrate that and how identities are made relevant and consequential for the participants of an interaction.
Based on a conversation analytic study of ordinary telephone conversations, the paper examines the use of anyway as a sequence-closing device in context in which the participants face an interactional impasse.
The findings broaden the scope of conversation analytic research on turn design and action formation and have implications for our understanding of questioning and advice delivery within the field of pragmatics.
The findings contribute to a developing body of conversation analytic research on how question recipients display resistance to questions, and more generally how turn-beginnings serve as an important place in interaction.
This is done with the conversation analytic method (CA) according to which altercasting is a mutual construction performed turn by turn and shaped by the reactions of the interlocutor who can approve, resist, or modify the identity in question.
