Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies

This  volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological  Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of  talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people – through  locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices – accomplish  activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as  part of their everyday lives.

The volume is divided  into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by  exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA  for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical  diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing  its boundaries, and paves the way for the development of future  interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a  glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate  with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors  represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies,  sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and cognitive  science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener that invites  critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s methodology and toolbox  could be developed for the purpose of acquiring richer perspectives on  endogenous social action.

This is key reading for  researchers and advanced students on a range of courses on conversation  analysis, language in interaction, discourse studies, multimodality, and  more.