This volume introduces students to the subject matter, methods and findings of conversation analysis. Conversation analysis deals with all situations of every-day communication. This book provides a basis for all BA-/MA study programmes in which the methods of conversation analysis have a role to play, e.g. linguistics, sociology, psychology, communication science, ethnology and anthropology.

Karin Birkner, Peter Auer, Angelika Bauer and Helga Kotthoff, Freiburg University, Germany.