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Lectures on Conversation

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This collection of lectures by the late Harvey Sacks will be useful and thought provoking for researchers and scholars in any of the social or human sciences. Sacks' wide-ranging intellect throws light on phenomena central to sociology, linguistics, anthropology, communication, and psychology. This volume is a comprehensive collection of Sacks' work, and a vital resource for social scientists

Gail Jefferson's immense effort has provided serious scholars with a wealth of insight into the thought of one of the 20th century's most original thinkers. Harvey Sacks developed both analytical insights and methods of the utmost brilliance, challenging the conventions of sociology in a manner closely aligned with the work of Harold Garfinkel. This collection of lectures provides an intimate encounter with a different way of understanding social interaction by restoring the "social" and the "interaction" to social inquiry. As the founder of Conversation Analysis, Sacks provided scholars with a way of investigating the mechanisms of sense making by attending the finely coordinated details of social interaction. All serious social scientists should own a copy of this work and read it carefully.