Friday, October 7, 2011

Memorable Quotes # 21: “Pure CA” vs. “Applied CA”

(Book: Ten Have, P. (2007). Doing conversation analysis: A practical guide. (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications)



“CA was originally developed as a “pure” science, motivated by the wish to discover basic and general aspects of sociality. Later, it was also “applied”, in the sense that interactions with an institutional purpose were studied in order to discover how those interactions were organized as institutional interactions.” (p. 174)

“In “pure CA”, the focus is on the local practices of turn-taking, sequential organization, etc., in and for themselves, while in “applied CA” attention shifts to the tensions between those local practices and any “larger structures” in which these are embedded, such as conventional membership categories, institutional rules, instructions, accounting obligations, etc. […] The focus is still on talk-in-interaction.” (p. 199)


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