Lectures_On_Conversation._Lecture_1.

Lectures On Conversation. Lecture 1. Rules of conversational sequence. In this chapter sacks introduces us to the material taken from the emergency psychiatric hospital. Sacks started off by looking at the structure of conversation and then shows us interesting ethnomethodological ways of breaking down the smallest interactions to its base components. An example of this given by sacks is the aversion techniques used when the respondent did not want their name to be known. Sacks shows us these phenomenons by using rules. One of these is that of the originator of the conversation. Who ever speaks first in a conversation will determine the terms of address used, and that these terms can come in ‘units’. A unit is usually in a pair, for example - A) “Hello” B) “Hello” Normal conversation has many of these rules and the question of finding out somebody’s name during conversation is a good example of this. When in talking to someone that you have never met you can ask there name without directly putting the question to them. An example of this would be- A) “Hi, I’m Andy” B) “I’m David” To avoid giving ones name though is a great deal trickier. Sacks tells sacks, conversation, name, tells, example, terms, slot, respondent, ask, way, shows, rules, question, pair, out, ones, one, off, lead, i’m, hello, hear, giving, directly, come, calls, breaking, asking, accounts, units, thinking, worry, without, withdrawn, whether, ways