Structures of Social Action

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Transcript notation
• 1. Introduction John Heritage and J. Maxwell Atkinson
• Part I. Orientations:
• 2. Notes on methodology Harvey Sacks
• 3. On some questions and ambiguities in conversation Emanuel A. Schegloff
• Part II. Preference Organization:
• 4. Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes Anita Pomerantz
• 5. Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals, dealing with potential or actual rejection Judy Davidson
• 6. Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences Paul Drew
• 7. Pursuing a response Anita Pomerantz
• Part III. Topic Organization:
• 8. Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors Graham Button and Neil Casey
• 9. On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters Gail Jefferson
• Part IV. The Integration of Talk With Nonvocal Activities:
• 10. Notes on story structure and the organization of participation Charles Goodwin
• 11. Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement Christian Health
• 12. On some gestures' relation to talk Emanuel A. Schegloff
• Part V. Aspects of Response:
• 13. A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement John Heritage
• 14. On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles Gail Jefferson
• 15. Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause J. Maxwell Atkinson
• Part VI. Everyday Activities as Sociological Phenomena:
• 16. On doing 'being ordinary' Harvey Sacks
• References
• Subject index
• Index of names.
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