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Conversation Analysis at the fair

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posted on 2018-07-02, 10:49 authored by Charles Antaki
The authors of the ‘Conversational Rollercoaster’ article give a vivid and engaging account of a difficult but worthwhile exercise: bringing live Conversation Analysis (CA) to the public in a Science Fair. Part of their motivation is a claim that CA is uniquely qualified for such exhibition: as a mode of enquiry, it has what they call a ‘public ethos’. I examine that part of their case and suggest that it might not be as waterproof as it appears. But, such qualms ought not detract from the positive benefits of sharing CA’s attractions with the public. The manifest success of the event, and its grounding in solid CA practice, is enough reason to hope that others will be inspired to follow in these pioneers’ footsteps.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Discourse Studies

Volume

20

Issue

3

Pages

425 - 430

Citation

ANTAKI, C., 2018. Conversation Analysis at the fair. Discourse Studies, 20 (3), pp. 425-430.

Publisher

SAGE © The Authors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2018-05-16

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Discourse Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445618754580.

ISSN

1461-4456

eISSN

1461-7080

Language

  • en