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posted on 2014-08-15, 12:17 authored by Sue Wilkinson, Celia KitzingerConversation 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.
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