Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis offers a detailed overview of how everyday interaction shapes social life—from classrooms and hospitals to courtrooms, homes, and online settings. This volume introduces the key principles and practices of Conversation Analysis (CA), a framework for examining how people coordinate actions through talk, gesture, and other embodied and material resources.
With contributions from over sixty scholars across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and beyond, the handbook explores how interaction operates across languages, cultures, and institutions. The chapters examine how people build relationships, manage social roles, and navigate complex environments through moment-by-moment communication. In addition to established research areas, the contributors highlight growing areas of research such as multilingual interaction, neurodivergent communication, and human-AI encounters. They likewise show how CA is applied across fields including second language learning, law, healthcare, and technology design. Each chapter provides a clear entry point into a particular area of study, along with suggestions for further exploration.
This comprehensive handbook will appeal not only to CA specialists, but also to researchers and students in applied linguistics, education, communication studies, anthropology, and human-computer interaction.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I. Foundations of CA 2. The Emergence and Consolidation of CA as a Scientific Field 3. The Architecture of Interaction 4. Multimodality 5. Participation 6. Intersubjectivity in CA 7. Stance in Interaction 8. Narrative in CA 9. Identity and Membership Categorization Analysis 10. "Routines" and "Formulaic Language" in CA Part II. CA and Methodology 11. Doing CA: Collecting, Transcribing, and Analyzing Data 12. Applied and Interventionist Approaches to CA 13. CA and Quantitative Approaches 14. CA and Qualitative Research Interviews 15. CA and Longitudinal Studies Part III. CA for Language Teaching and Learning 16. CA and Second Language Acquisition 17. CA and Interactional Competence 18. CA and Classroom Discourse 19. CA and L2 Literacy 20. CA and Technology in Language Teaching and Learning 21. CA and Language Teacher Education 22. CA and Language Testing and Assessment 23. CA and Advising, Mentoring, and Tutoring 24. CA and Second Language Use Beyond the Classroom Part IV. CA in Other Domains of Inquiry 25. CA in Early Childhood Studies 26. CA in Education and Schooling 27. CA in Language Policy and Planning 28. CA in Political Discourse 29. CA in Forensic Linguistics and Legal Discourse 30. CA in Healthcare 31. CA in Gender and Sexuality Studies Part V. CA in Specific Contexts and Communities 32. CA and Video-mediated Communication 33. CA and Social Media 34. CA and Multilingual Interaction 35. CA and Intercultural Communication 36. CA and Service Encounters 37. CA and Neurodiversity 38. CA and Signed Language Interaction Part VI. Afterword 39. Afterword.
