Chapter 4 CA and different disciplinary agendas

Section: Membership categorization analysis (MCA)

On the Ethno/CA News website, there is a regularly updated MCA-bibliography, collecting both explanatory publications on MCA and ones in which MCA is being applied to data

Section: CA and discursive psychology (DP)

On the Ethno/CA News website, there is a  DP-bibliography, collecting both explanatory publications on discursive psychology and ones in which it is being applied to data

Section: CA and feminist concerns

On page 63, I mention a paper by Maria Wowk (2007) which is a very critical discussion of Celia Kitzinger's 2000 paper on 'Feminist conversation analysis'. Kitzinger has written a rebuttal, as well as a futher consideration of 'Feminist CA', which is published as:

Kitzinger, Celia (2008) ‘Developing Feminist Conversation Analysis: A Response to Wowk’  Human Studies 31/2: 179-208

See also Kitzinger's review of Schegloff's 2007 book (in Discourse & Society, 19/4, July 2008: 560-7), in which she explains how and why she, as an established feminist psychologist switched to become a feminist CA researcher, and even a CA-ist pur sang.

Chapter 5 Collecting/Producing Recordings

Section: ‘Naturalism’

On CA's preference for 'naturally occuring' data, and the contrast between 'natural' and 'contrived' data Susan Speer has published some challenging reflections, which occasioned an interesting debate; later followed by a far reaching overview.

In chronological order:

Speer, Susan A. (2002) ‘”Natural” and “contrived” data: a sustainable distinction?’ Discourse Studies 4: 511-25

Have, Paul ten (2002) ‘Ontology or methodology? Comments on Speer’s “natural” and “contrived” data: a sustainable distinction? Discourse Studies 4: 527-30

Lynch, Michael (2002) ‘From naturally occurring data to naturally organized ordinary activities: comment on Speer’, Discourse Studies 4: 531-37

Potter, Jonathan (2002) ‘Two kinds of natural’, Discourse Studies 4: 539-42

Speer, Susan A. (2002) ‘Transcending the “natural” /”contrived” distinction: a rejoinder to ten Have, Lynch and Potter’, Discourse Studies 4: 543-48

Speer, Susan (2008) ‘Natural and Contrived Data’. In: Pertti Alasuutari, Leonard Bickman, Julia Brannen eds.  The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods. London, etc. Sage: 290-312

Chapter 6: Transcribing Talk-in-Interaction

general: Addition sources on transcription: a special website at UC Santa Barbara  Transcription in Action: Resources for the Representation of Linguistic Interaction
 

section: Software support: Transana

In the book, I mention that Transana is a free program; this is no longer the case. Details from the Transana website [http://www.transana.org/index.htm] are quoted below:

Transana 2.20 Released

April 3, 2007 -- Transana 2.20 is now available on the Transana web site.

This is the first version of Transana where the download is NOT free. Due to a lack of adequate funding, we had to make a choice. We could either reduce the amount of time being put into Transana's development and support efforts, or we could start charging for downloads. We have opted for the later, and are now asking people to pay $50 for the single-user version of Transana and $500 for all members of a project for the multi-user version. This day has been coming for a long time, and we put it off as long as was possible.

Transana is no longer free

March 29, 2007 -- We have no choice but to start charging for copies of Transana. Funds available through targeted development, donations, and grants are not adequate at this time to ensure Transana's ongoing development, so we chose to start charging rather than to reduce the amount of time being devoted to developing and supporting the program.

Older versions of Transana (version 2.12 and previous) will still be available for free on the Archives page. In addition, under the terms of the GNU-GPL, Transana's source code is available.


Note that there is an alternative to Transana, called CLAN-CA, here is some information on this program:

CLAN-CA

Explication of CLAN: software for the transcription, coding, analysis, and sharing of transcripts of conversations linked to either audio or video media, provided by Brian MacWhinney.

In the context of the CHILDES and TalkBank projects, Brian MacWhinney and Leonid Spektor have developed the CLAN program which is free for download from http://childes.psy.cmu.edu. In collaboration with Johannes Wagner, we are currently improving the useability of CLAN for CA transcription and working to develop a larger database of transcripts appropriate for CA analysis.

Key features of CLAN include:

The CHILDES and TalkBank Projects are supported by grants from NIH and NSF.

Chapter 10 Applied CA: Local Rationalities, Formal Knowledge, and Critical Concerns

Section:  Plans, practices, and accounts

In the schema on page 198 there should be an upward arrow below (recorded answers), to indicate the usually 'hidden work' during the interviewing process is practically required for the actual production of the answers-as-recorded.