This project makes available for the first time the entire corpus of lectures by a writer whose thought and method influenced a generation of sociologists and sociolinguists.Originally published as two volumes, this special comprehensive single-volume edition contains the complete lectures, beginning with the lectures delivered at UCLA, from Fall 1964 through Spring 1968. Sacks explores a great variety of topics, but two key issues emerge: rules of conversational sequencing, and membership categorization devices. The ...
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This project makes available for the first time the entire corpus of lectures by a writer whose thought and method influenced a generation of sociologists and sociolinguists.Originally published as two volumes, this special comprehensive single-volume edition contains the complete lectures, beginning with the lectures delivered at UCLA, from Fall 1964 through Spring 1968. Sacks explores a great variety of topics, but two key issues emerge: rules of conversational sequencing, and membership categorization devices. The lectures culminate in the extensive and formal explication of turn-taking delivered in Fall 1967.The second half contains the lectures delivered at UC Irvine from Fall 1968 through Spring 1972. Again, Sacks touches on a wide range of subjects, such as the poetics of ordinary talk, the integrative function of public tragedy, and pauses in the spelling out of a word. The central theme is storytelling in conversation, with an attendant focus on topic. The volume culminates in the elegant dissertation on adjacency pairs which Sacks delivered in Spring, 1972.
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Add this copy of Lectures on Conversation, Volumes I and II to cart. $300.14, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Wiley-Blackwell.
Add this copy of Lectures on Conversation to cart. $304.50, good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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Good; Softcover; Covers are still glossy, but with moderate shelfwear to the back cover, and wrinkling to the exterior plastic coating of the covers on the lower spine area; Library stamp to the top and bottom textblock edges; Library stamps to the front endpapers; Text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 3.5 lbs; Dark blue covers with title in gold & white lettering; 1995, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing; 1520 pages; "Lectures on Conversation, " by Harvey Sacks.
