CS235 Chapter 10: Conversation and Discourse Analysis
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Ethnomethodology - research methods that examine ordinary daily practices. Language and social interaction - research methods that examine speech, language, gestures and communication competence, conversation analysis, ethnography, and ethnomethodological work. Discourse analysis - research in anthropology, applied linguistics, communication, cultural studies, discursive psychology, and sociology. Discourse - an interrelated set of texts, and the practices of their production, dissemination, and reception that brings an object into being. Critical discourse analysis - evaluates the social construction of reality and suggests how discursive texts and practices should be reformed. The roots of conversation and discourse analysis in ethnomethodology. People assume things are as they appear to be unless there is a good reason to believe otherwise. The knowledge held by people is typically incomplete. Whenever people engage in coordinated actions with others, they usually assume that others see things as they do. Breaching - deviating from the above 3 principles, disturbs everyday life.
