Introductory CA readings

CA literature is widely available and covers a range of topics. The following references are selected as an introduction to CA and to current work by members of CAIR. For further references in specific areas please contact relevant staff.

Introductory text books on CA

Hutchby, I. and Wooffitt, R., 2008, Conversation Analysis. Cambridge, Polity Press (2nd edition)

Ten-Have, P., 2007, Doing Conversation Analysis: A Practical Guide, Sage (2nd edition)

Schegloff, E., 2007, Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis New York, Cambridge University Press.

Silverman, D., 1998, Harvey Sacks: Social Science & Conversation Analysis. Cambridge, Polity Press.

Woofitt, R. 2005, Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis,  London, Sage.

Introductory/overview chapter/papers

Heritage, J., 1984, Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge, Polity Press. – chapter 8

Levinson, S., 1983, Pragmatics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. –
chapter 6

Wilkinson, R., 1999, Introduction. Aphasiology 13(4/5): 251-258.

Conversation Analysis and atypical talk

The following are a small selection of current references from CAIR members. For further references please visit individual staff pages

Beeke, S., Maxim, J., Best, W. & Cooper., F. (in press) Redesigning therapy for agrammatism: Initial findings from the ongoing evaluation of a conversation-based intervention study. Journal of Neurolinguistics,

Beeke, S., Wilkinson, R. & Maxim, J. (2009) Prosody as a compensatory strategy in the conversations of people with agrammatism. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 23, (2), 133- 155.

Bloch,S. (in press) Anticipatory other-completion of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) talk: A Conversation Analysis study. Disability and  Rehabilitation

Bloch, S. and Wilkinson, R.,  (2009)  Acquired dysarthria in conversation: Identifying sources of understandability problems. International Journal of Language and Communication  Disorders 44 (5) 769-783

Clarke, M.T. and Wilkinson, R.  (2010) Speaker transfer in non-speaking children's peer conversation: Time, timing and use of voice output communication aids In Gardner, H and Forrester, M (Eds) Analysing interaction in childhood: Methods and applications London: Wiley

Clarke, M.T. and Wilkinson, R.  (2009) The collaborative construction of non-serious episodes of interaction by non-speaking children with cerebral palsy and their peers Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 23: 583 - 597

Mahon, M. (2009) Interactions between a deaf child for whom English is an additional language and his specialist teacher in the first year at school: combining words and gestures. /Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics /23(8): 611–629

Radford, J. and Mahon, M. (2010) Multi-modal participation in storybook sharing. in Gardner, H. and Forrester, M. (Eds) /Analysing Interactions  in Childhood: insights from conversation analysis. /Wiley Blackwell chapter 11 pp 209-226

Radford, J. (2009) Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 23.

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