Editing Conversation analysis (section)

== History ==
Conversation analysis was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s principally by the sociologist [[Harvey Sacks]] and his close associates [[Emanuel Schegloff]] and [[Gail Jefferson]].<ref name=lectures-intro>
{{cite book 
|last=Sacks |first=Harvey
|contributor-last=Schegloff|contributor-first=Emanuel
|editor-last=Jefferson |editor-first=Gail 
|title=Lectures on Conversation (Vol. 1)
|date=1992
|publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford 
|isbn=9781444328301|pages=ix-lxiii 
|contribution=Introduction
|author-link=Harvey Sacks
|contributor-link=Emanuel Schegloff
}}
</ref>{{rp|ix–lxii}} Sacks was inspired by [[Harold Garfinkel]]'s [[ethnomethodology]] and [[Erving Goffman]]'s conception of what came to be known as the ''interaction order'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Sidnell |first=Jack |editor1-last=Heine |editor1-first=Bernd |editor2-last=Narrog |editor2-first=Heiko |chapter=Conversation Analysis |title=The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis |date=2015 |pages=167–191 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199677078.013.0041|isbn=978-0-19-967707-8 |editor1-link=Bernd Heine}}</ref> but also a number of minor sources of contemporary influences such as the [[Generative grammar|generativism]] of [[Noam Chomsky]] and its focus on building an apparatus.<ref name=lectures-intro />{{rp|xxi, xxxvi}} The [[speech act]] theory of [[John Searle]] was a parallel development rather than influencing or influenced by CA.<ref name=lectures-intro />{{rp|xxiv}} Today CA is an established method used in sociology, anthropology, linguistics, speech-communication and psychology, and works alongside related approaches such as [[interactional sociolinguistics]], [[interactional linguistics]], [[discourse analysis]] and [[discursive psychology]].