Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis - Couverture souple

Silverman, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745617115 ISBN 13 : 9780745617114

Editeur : Polity Press, 1998

Synopsis

Harvey 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.

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's work offers a highly original perspective on language and social life and raises fundamental questions for the social sciences - questions which, after more than twenty years, remain vitally important and largely unanswered.

Written in a lively and accessible way, this book will be of particular interest to students of sociology, sociolinguistics, social theory and method, but it will also be of interest to students and researchers in anthropology, psychology and related disciplines.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Silverman is an author known for leading the novice and the expert through the complex underground corpus of Harvey Sacks's work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745617115
• ISBN 13: 9780745617114
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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