Book review. The handbook of conversation analysis, edited by J. Sidnell and T. Stivers

Authors

  • Mandy Lee Deal Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Abstract

The Handbook of Conversation Analysis is part of the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series. The stated aim of this 844-page volume is to provide a comprehensive resource about conversation analysis (CA) by consolidating in-depth reviews of current theory, practice and research in this area. A quick glance through its table of contents evidences the degree of thoroughness achieved in such a massive endeavor (...).

Keywords

Book review

References

Markee, N. (2008). Toward a learning behavior tracking methodology for CA-for-SLA. Applied Linguistics, 29: 404-427.

ten Have, P. (2014). Book review: Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers (eds.), The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Discourse Studies, 16: 572-575.

Author Biography

Mandy Lee Deal, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Mandy Deal is Assistant Director in the Language Department at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. She has undergraduate degrees in German and French and an MA in TESOL and has taught in a wide variety of higher education settings for over 25 years. She has been involved in implementing the Bologna process in the Health Sciences program at the UIC for the last 12 years. She is currently carrying out her PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona by exploring interactional competence and epistemic practices in academic group work activities among dental students in a higher education CLIL program.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.591

Published

2014-09-03

How to Cite

Deal, M. L. (2014). Book review. The handbook of conversation analysis, edited by J. Sidnell and T. Stivers. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 7(3), 65–70. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.591

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