Scary Words # 14: Generalization

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

“CA’s purpose is not primarily to describe empirical patterns of (inter)actions, but rather to get a theoretical grasp of interactions’ underlying “rules” and “principles”, or […] “the procedural infrastructure of interaction” (Schegloff, 1992).”