Conversation Analysis. The Ethnomethodological Origin, Issues and Concerns

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, , course: Conversation analysis-Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Conversation analysis (C.A), in general, is characterized by a vast diversity of theoretical beliefs, research practices and findings. Sociologists, sociolinguists, social psychologists, anthropologists, discourse analysts, educators, and many others have come to recognize the relevance of conversation for their respective disciplines. Natural conversation has, thus, become a research site for different explorations, not only because social interaction is to a large extent verbal interaction but also because talk exhibits 'orderly' features, which upon analysis, turn out not be features of language but features of interaction.

Nor eddine Bourima has a Licence in English Language and Literature (Sidi mohammed ben Abdellah University, Fes), an MA and a PhD in Liguistics and Discourse Analysis (Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). He teaches English Language and Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco). He is coordinator of The research Team on Audio-Visual Translation and Vice-Director of The Interdisciplinary Diversity & Development Research Laboratory (IDDRL). His current research interests include Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis, Sociology of Language, Discourse and Translation Studies, and Performance Studies.