Across a range of institutional settings, ‘practitioners’ and ‘professionals’ are eliciting and capturing spoken talk from ‘clients’ (Sarangi 1998),

How can we capture the words, gestures and conduct of study participants? How do we transcribe what happens in social interactions in analytically useful ways?

How can we capture the words, gestures and conduct of study participants? How do we transcribe what happens in social interactions in analytically useful ways?

This book presents the reader with a set of diverse, carefully developed and clearly specified systems of transcription and coding, arising from contrasting the

This is the book for introducing and getting to grips with conversation analysis. Accessible, comprehensive and very applied. - Steven Wright, Lancaster Univers