Volume I contains the lectures of Fall 1964 through Fall 1967, in which Sacks explores a great variety of topics, from suicide to children's games to Medieval Hell as a nemonic device to pronouns and paradoxes. But two key issues emerge: rules of conversational sequencing - central to the articulation of interaction, and membership categorization devices - central to the social organization of knowledge. This volume culminates in the extensive and formal explication of turn-taking which Sacks delivered in Fall, 1967. ...
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Volume I contains the lectures of Fall 1964 through Fall 1967, in which Sacks explores a great variety of topics, from suicide to children's games to Medieval Hell as a nemonic device to pronouns and paradoxes. But two key issues emerge: rules of conversational sequencing - central to the articulation of interaction, and membership categorization devices - central to the social organization of knowledge. This volume culminates in the extensive and formal explication of turn-taking which Sacks delivered in Fall, 1967. Volume II contains the lectures of Spring 1968 through Spring 1972. Again he touches on a wide range of subjects, such as the poetics of ordinary talk, the integrative function of public tragedy, and pauses in spelling out a word. He develops a major new theme: storytelling in converstion, with an attendant focus on topic. His investigation of conversational sequencing continues, and this volume culminates in the elegant dissertation on adjacency pairs which Sacks delivered in Spring, 1972.
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Seller's Description:
Good; Softcover; Covers are moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with small handling-creases and multiple reading-creases along the spine; Clean textblock edges; Small crease to the top right corner of the first few pages, and highlighting to about 50 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is worn from use, but is good with no splits; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 3.5 lbs; Dark blue covers with title in gold & white lettering; 1995, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing; 1520 pages; "Lectures on Conversation, " by Harvey Sacks.
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Good; Softcover; Covers are still glossy, but with moderate shelfwear to the back cover, and wrinkling to the exterior plastic coating of the covers on the lower spine area; Library stamp to the top and bottom textblock edges; Library stamps to the front endpapers; Text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 3.5 lbs; Dark blue covers with title in gold & white lettering; 1995, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing; 1520 pages; "Lectures on Conversation, " by Harvey Sacks.
