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David Silverman, Harvey Sacks: Social science and conversation analysis. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 222.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2001
Abstract
In his Introduction to Volume I of Sacks's Lectures on conversation (1992), Emmanuel Schegloff observes (1992:lviii) that his own effort at overview was “truly daunting,” mostly because of “the extraordinary richness and multi-facetedness of Sacks's corpus … In its variety, depth, and freshness of vision it defies domestication into convenient guidelines to a reader.” Such a statement – indeed, any reading of the two-volume set of Lectures – should give pause to someone attempting a textbook rendering of Sacks and his work. But such a text is precisely what Silverman has produced, and the effort is remarkably successful on its own terms.
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