Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Transcript notation
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ORIENTATIONS
- PART II PREFERENCE ORGANIZATION
- PART III TOPIC ORGANIZATION
- PART IV THE INTEGRATION OF TALK WITH NONVOCAL ACTIVITIES
- PART V ASPECTS OF RESPONSE
- PART VI EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AS SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
PART VI - EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AS SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Transcript notation
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ORIENTATIONS
- PART II PREFERENCE ORGANIZATION
- PART III TOPIC ORGANIZATION
- PART IV THE INTEGRATION OF TALK WITH NONVOCAL ACTIVITIES
- PART V ASPECTS OF RESPONSE
- PART VI EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AS SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
Summary
As part of his introduction to an earlier collection of research reports, George Psathas commented on the widespread impact of Harvey Sacks's unpublished lectures in the following terms:
Sacks was a co-worker par excellence. He shared his data and his observations freely and generously. His lectures, transcribed and mimeographed since the mid-1960's, have been read by large numbers of persons over the years as citations to his unpublished work will attest. This unpublished corpus has achieved national and international circulation …This book is evidence of the influence and importance of his work.
(Psathas 1979:3—4)Several years later, these remarks apply with at least equal (if not greater) force to the contents of the present book. Although most of the studies reported here have been carried out since 1975, when Sacks died in a car accident, many of them take as their starting points themes and issues that were originally explored or suggested in the lectures. Sacks's work can now be seen to have had an even wider instructional impact than was evident at the time when Psathas was writing his introduction to Everyday Language More than half the contributors to the present book learned about and became committed to conversation analysis at a distance of six thousand miles from the University of California campuses where Sacks and his colleagues were based.
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- Structures of Social Action , pp. 411 - 412Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985