%0 Journal Article %A Wilkinson, Sue %A Kitzinger, Celia %D 2014 %T Using conversation analysis in feminist and critical research %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Using_conversation_analysis_in_feminist_and_critical_research/9474140 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/17098634 %K untagged %K Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified %K Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified %X Conversation analysis – the study of talk-in-interaction - is proving a valuable tool for politically-engaged inquiry and social critique. This article illustrates the use of conversation analysis in feminist and critical research, drawing on a range of empirical studies. After introducing conversation analysis – its theoretical assumptions, methodological practices, and empirical findings – it highlights projects based on two key conversation analytic domains: turn-taking and turn-design, and sequence organization and preference structure. The final section examines the key contributions of conversation analysis to feminist and critical work in the areas of categories and gender; LGBT issues; women’s labour; and the politics, ethics and design of the research process. %I Loughborough University