Harvey Sacks : Social Science and Conversation Analysis

Name: Harvey Sacks : Social Science and Conversation Analysis
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Harvey SacksSocial Science and Conversation Analysis\nAuthor(s): David Silverman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745617114, 978-0745617114\nSynopsis\nHarvey Sacks's early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his lifetime, his lectures and papers were enormously influential in sociology and sociolinguistics and they played a major role in the development of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The recent publication of Sacks's Lectures on Conversation has provided an excellent opportunity for a wide-ranging reassessment of his contribution.\n In this new book, David Silverman provides a clear introduction to Sack's work and reassesses its value for sociology, linguistics, anthropology and psychology. Using a variety of examples, he explains Sacks's ideas on method, language and talk-in-interaction. He argues that Sacks'.