Talk and Social Structure: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

by Deirdre Boden (Editor), Dierdre Boden

Talk is at the heart of everyday existence, yet social scientists have traditionally treated it as peripheral to human affairs and social structure. This collection of original essays offers a new and different perspective that sees talk as the fundamental framework of social interaction and social institutions.

315 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 1991