Editing Conversation analysis (section)

===Action formation===
Turns in interaction implement actions, and a specific turn may perform one (or more) specific actions.<ref name="levinson2013">{{cite book|last1=Levinson |first1=Stephen C.|editor1-last=Stivers |editor1-first=Tanya |editor2-last=Sidnell |editor2-first=Jack|chapter=Action Formation and Ascription |title=The Handbook of Conversation Analysis |date=2013 |pages=101–130 |doi=10.1002/9781118325001.ch6|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0012-C846-B |isbn=9781118325001|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell}}</ref> The study of action focuses on the description of how turns at talk are composed and positioned so as to realize one or more actions. This could include questions, assessments, storytelling, and complaints.<ref>Peräkylä, Anssi (2016) ''Conversation Analysis.'' The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online. doi:10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc133.pub2</ref> Focus is both on how those actions are formed through linguistic or other activity (the ''formation'' of action) and how they are understood (the ''ascription'' of action to turns). The study of action also concerns the ways in which the participants’ knowledge, relations, and stances towards the ongoing interactional projects are created, maintained, and negotiated, and thus the [[intersubjectivity]] of how people interact. The concept of ''action'' within CA resembles, but is different from the concept of [[speech act]] in other fields of pragmatics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Deppermann |first1=Arnulf|editor-last1=Haugh|editor-first1=Michael|editor-last2=Kádár|editor-first2=Dániel Z.|editor-last3=Terkourafi|editor-first3=Marina |chapter=Social Actions |title=The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics |date=2021 |pages=69–94 |doi=10.1017/9781108954105.006|isbn=9781108954105 |s2cid=241741173 }}</ref>