Subject: social science and conversation analysis , harvey sacks

harvey sacks : social science and conversation analysis david silverman , goldsmiths college , london " harvey sacks , as the say , was an original . david silverman provides a thoughtful , lucid account of his penetrating work . i urge anyone concerned with occuring speech to read this book . one 's sense of how to interpret what is said will be changed . even if one does not adopt the approach , one will have an essential landmark and reference point to inform what one does oneself . " - - dell hymes , university of virginia " david silverman is to be thanked for leading the novice and the expert through the complex , heretofore underground corpus of harvey sacks 's work . finally , the social science community can study and learn from sacks 's pathbreaking studies of talk and conversational analysis . the social science community in the field of everyday life studies owes silverman a great debt . " - - norman k . denzin , university of illinois this is the first book-length introduction to the work of harvey sacks , a highly influential sociologist who prior to his tragic death in 1975 developed the theories that came to be known as conversation analysis and ethnomethodology - - theories that have grown to become extremely popular within linguistics , sociology , psychology and anthropology . this volume should be of interest to both students and scholars of conversation analysis and sacks ' work . october 1998 232 pp . 0-19 - 521473 - 0 paper $ 19 . 95 0-19 - 521472 - 2 cloth $ 39 . 95 oxford university press _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for more information about linguistics titles from oxford : visit the oxford university press usa web site at http : / / www . oup-usa . org or e-mail : linguistics @ oup-usa . org
