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Basic books - Introductory books - Basic discussions on EM and/or  CA

last revisions: 26 April 2013

Basic books

Garfinkel, Harold (1967) Studies in ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall

Garfinkel, Harold (2002) Ethnomethodology’s Program: Working Out Durkheim’s Aphorism. Edited and Introduced by Anne Rawls. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

Sacks, Harvey (1992) Lectures on conversation. 2 vols. Edited by Gail Jefferson with introductions by Emanuel A. Schegloff. Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Schegloff, Emanuel A. (2007) Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis, vol 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Sidnell, Jack; Tanya Stivers, eds. (2012) The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Wiley-Blackwell


Introductory books

Francis, David, Stephen Hester (2004) An Invitation to Ethnomethodology: Language, Society and Interaction. London etc. Sage Publications More

Heritage, John (1984) Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press
This one offers and extensive discussion of ethnomethodology's background and development until about 1980, with a separate chapter on CA. More

Have, Paul ten (2004) Understanding qualitative research and ethnomethodology. London etc. Sage Publications
A confrontation of conventional qualitative methods with ethnomethodology. More

Have, Paul ten (2007) Doing conversation analysis: a practical guide. Second Edition. London, etc.: Sage More

Hutchby, Ian, Robin Wooffitt (2008) Conversation analysis, 2nd Edition. Chichester, U.K. Polity Press More

Psathas, George (1995) Conversation analysis: the study of Talk-in-Interaction. Thousand Oaks: Sage [Qualitative Research Methods 35]
A small book on CA, stressing contrasts with other kinds of interaction studies. More

Sidnell, Jack (2010) Conversation Analysis: An Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell More

Silverman, D. (1998)  Harvey Sacks and Conversation Analysis. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity Press  More.

Wooffitt, Robin  (2005) Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction. London, etc. Sage Publications
See  More and my review essay published in FQS.



Basic discussions of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis, including their interrelation and methodological discussions or suggestions.

Arminen, Ilkka (1999) ‘Conversation Analysis: A quest for order in social interaction and language use’. Acta Sociologica 42: 251-7

Arminen, Ilkka  (2005) Institutional Interaction: Studies of Talk at Work.  Aldershot: Ashgate
[Series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Series editors D.Francis and S.Hester]

Benson, Doug J., John A. Hughes (1983) The perspective of ethnomethodology. London: Longmans

Boden, Deirdre (1990) 'The world as it happens: ethnomethodology and conversation analysis'. In: G. Ritzer, ed., Frontiers of social theory: the new synthesis. New York: Columbia University Press: 185-213

Button, Graham, ed. (1991) Ethnomethodology and the human sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Contributors: Bob Anderson, Douglas Benson, Graham Button, Jeff Coulter, Harold Garfinkel, John Hughes, Lena Jayyusi, John Lee, Michael Lynch, & Wes Sharrock.]

Clayman, Steven E., Virginia T. Gill, (2004) ‘Conversation analysis’. In A. Bryman & M. Hardy, eds., Handbook of data analysis. London: Sage: 589-606

Clayman, Steven E., Douglas W. Maynard (1995) 'Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis'. In: P. ten Have, G. Psathas, eds., Situated order: Studies in the social organization of talk and embodied activities. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America: 1-30

Coulon, Alain (1987) L’ethnométhodologie. Paris: P.U.F. (Que saisje?)

Coulon, Alain (1995) Ethnomethodology. Thousand Oaks: Sage [Qualitative Research Methods 36] (translation of Coulon, 1987)

Drew, Paul, John Heritage (1992) 'Analyzing talk at work: an introduction'. In: Drew, P., J. Heritage, eds. Talk at work: interaction in institutional settings. Cambrid- ge: Cambridge University Press: 3-65

Drew, Paul, Marja-leena Sorjonen (1997) 'Institutional dialogue'. In: T.A. van Dijk, ed. Discourse as social interaction: Discourse Studies 2 - A multidisciplinary introduction. London: Sage: 92-118

Garfinkel, Harold (1996) ‘An Overview of Ethnomethodology’s Program’, Social Psychology Quarterly 59 (1996): 5-21

Garfinkel, Harold, D. Lawrence Wieder (1992) ‘Two incommensurable, asymmetrically alternate technologies of social analysis’. In: Graham Watson, R.M. Seiler, eds. Text in context: studies in ethnomethodology. Newbury Park, etc. Sage: 175-206

Have, Paul ten (1990) 'Methodological issues in conversation analysis', Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, Nr. 27 (June): 23-51

Have, Paul ten (2001) ‘Applied conversation analysis’. In: Alec McHoul and Mark Rapley, eds. How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Casebook of Methods. London: Continuum: 3-11

Have, Paul ten (2002, September) ‘The Notion of Member is the Heart of the Matter: On the Role of Membership Knowledge in Ethnomethodological Inquiry’ [53 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal], 3(3). http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-02/3-02tenhave-e.htm

Have, Paul ten (2002) ‘Reflections on transcription’  cahiers de praxématique 39: 21-43 [PDF]

Have, Paul ten (2004) ‘Ethnomethodology’. In: In: Seale, Clive, David Silverman, Jay Gubrium, Giampietro Gobo, eds. Qualitative research practice. London, etc.: Sage Publications: 151-64

Have, Paul ten (2009) ‘Conversation analysis: analysing everyday conversational activities’. In: Michael Hviid Jacobsen, ed. Encountering the everyday: an introduction to the sociologies of the unnoticed. Houndmills Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. & New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 257-78

Heath, Christian (1997) 'The analysis of activities in face to face interaction using video'.  In: D. Silverman, ed. Qualitative research: Theory, method and practice. London: Sage: 183-200

Heath, Christian (2004) ‘ Analysing face to face interaction: video, the visual and material’. In: David Silverman, ed. Qualitative research: Theory, method and practice. Second edition London: Sage: 266-82

Heath, Christian, Paul Luff  (1993) 'Explicating face-to-face interaction'. In: Gilbert, N., ed. Researching social life. London: Sage: 306-26

Heritage, John C. (1987) ‘Ethnomethodology’. In: A. Giddens, J.H. Turner, eds. Social theory today. Cambridge: Polity Press: 224-72

Heritage, John (1989) ‘Current developments in conversation analysis’. In: Roger, D., Peter Bull, eds., Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 21-47

Heritage, John (1995) 'Conversation analysis: methodological aspects'. In: U.M. Quasthoff, ed., Aspects of oral communication. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter: 391-418

Heritage, John (1997) 'Conversation analysis and institutional talk: analysing data'.  In: D. Silverman, ed. Qualitative research: Theory, method and practice.London: Sage: 161-82

Heritage, John (2004) ‘Conversation analysis and institutional talk: analysing data’.. In: David Silverman, ed. Qualitative research: Theory, method and practice. Second edition London: Sage: 222-45

Heritage, John (2005) ‘Conversation analysis and institutional talk’. In K. L. Fitch & R. E. Sanders (Eds.), Handbook of language and social interaction. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum: 103-47

Heritage, John C. (1987) 'Ethnomethodology'. In: A. Giddens, J.H. Turner, eds. Social theory today. Cambridge: Polity Press: 224-72

Heritage, John, J.Maxwell Atkinson (1984) 'Introduction'. In: J.M. Atkinson, J. Heritage, eds. Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1-15

Hester, Stephen (2009) ‘Ethnomethodology: respecifying the problem of social order’. In: Michael Hviid Jacobsen, ed. Encountering the everyday: an introduction to the sociologies of the unnoticed. Houndmills Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. & New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 234-56

Hester, Stephen, David Francis (2000) ‘Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and “Institutional Talk”’, Text 20: 373-

Hester, Stephen, David Francis (2000) ‘Analysing “Institutional Talk”: a Reply to Watson’, Text 20: 391-413

Hester, Stephen, David Francis (2001) ‘Is institutional talk a phenomenon? Reflections on ethnomethodology and applied conversation analysis’. In: Alec McHoul and Mark Rapley, eds. How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Casebook of Methods. London: Continuum: 206-17

Hopper, Robert (1989) ‘Conversation analysis and social psychology as descriptions of interpersonal communication’. In: Roger, D., Peter Bull, eds., Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 48-65

Hopper, Robert., S. Koch, Jenny Mandelbaum (1986) 'Conversation analysis methods'. In: D.G. Ellis, W.A. Donahue, eds. Contemporary issues in language and discourse processes. Beverly Hills: Sage: 77-109

Jordan, Brigitte, A. Henderson (1995) 'Interaction analysis: foundations and practice', The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4: 39-101

Lynch, Michael (1993) Scientific practice and ordinary action: ethnomethodology and social studies of science. New York: Cambridge University Press

Lynch, Michael (2000) ‘The ethnomethodological foundations of conversation analysis’, Text 24: 517-32

Lynch, Michael (2001) ‘Les fondements ethnométhodologique de l’analyse de conversation’. In: Fornel, Michel de, Albert Ogien, Louis Quéré (dir.) L’ethnométhodologie: une sociologie radicale [Colloque de Cerisy]. Paris: Editions La Découverte [Collection “Recherches”]: 259-74

Lynch, Michael, David Bogen (1996) 'Methodological appendix: Postanalytic ethnomethodology'. In their: The spectacle of history: speech, text, and memory at the Iran-Contra hearings. Duke University Press: 262-87

Lynch, Michael, M. Peyrot (1992) 'Introduction: A reader's guide to ethnomethodology', In: Peyrot, M., M. Lynch, eds., 'Ethnomethodology: Contemporary Variations', special issues of Qualitative Sociology, Vol 15 (2): 113-22

Maynard, Douglas W., Steven E. Clayman (1991) 'The diversity of ethnomethodology', Annual Review of Sociology 17: 385-418

Maynard, Douglas W., Steven E. Clayman (2003) ‘Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis’. In L. Reynolds, N. Herman-Kinney (eds.) Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press:173-202

Pomerantz, Anita (1990) 'Conversation analytic claims', Communication Monographs 57: 231-5

Pomerantz, Anita, B.J. Fehr (1997) 'Conversation analysis: an approach to the study of social action as sense making practices'. In: T.A. van Dijk, ed. Discourse as social interaction: Discourse Studies 2 - A multidisciplinary introduction. London: Sage: 64-91

Psathas, George (1990) 'Introduction: Methodological issues and recent developments in the study of naturally occurring interaction'. In his edited collection: Interactional Competence. Washington: University Press of America: 1-30

Psathas, George, Tim Anderson (1990) 'The 'practices' of transcription in conversation analysis', Semiotica 78 (1990): 75-99

Sacks, Harvey (1984) ‘Notes on methodology’. In: Atkinson, J. Maxwell, John Heritage, eds. Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2-27

Schegloff, Emanuel A. (1993) 'Reflections on quantification in the study of conversation', Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26: 99-128.

Schenkein, Jim (1978) 'Sketch of an analytic mentality for the study of conversational interaction'. In: Schenkein, ed., Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. New York: Academic Press: 1-6

Sharrock, Wes (2001) ‘Where the simplest systematics fits: A response to Michael Lynch’s “The ethnomethodological foundations of conversation analysis”’, Text 20: 533-40

Sharrock, Wes W., R. Anderson (1986) The ethnomethodologists. Chichester: Ellis Horwood

Silverman, David (1998) 'Analysing conversation'. In: C. Seale, ed. Researching society and culture. London: Sage: 261-74

Whalen, Jack (1991) 'Conversation Analysis'. In: E.F. Borgatta, M.L. Borgatta, eds. The encyclopedia of sociology. New York: Macmillan

Wieder, D.Lawrence (1988) 'From resource to topic: some aims of conversation analysis'. In: J. Anderson, ed., Communication Yearbook 11. Beverly Hills: Sage: 444-54

Wootton, Anthony J. (1989) 'Remarks on the methodology of conversation analysis'. In: D. Roger, P. Bull, eds., Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 238-258

Zimmerman, Don H. (1988) 'On conversation: the conversation analytic perspective'. In: J. Anderson, ed., Communication Yearbook 11. Beverly Hills: Sage: 406-32 


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