Interaction Competence

Essays on the structure and organization of conversation in natural settings. Contents: Introduction: Methodological Issues and Recent Developments in the Study of Naturally Occurring Interaction, by George Psathas; The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation, by Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson and Harvey Sacks; Modifications of Invitations, Offers and Rejections, by Judy Arlene Davidson; Some features in the Elicitation of Confessions in Murder Interrogations, by D.R. Watson; and Talking in Interviews: A Dispreference for Patient-Initiated Questions in Physician-Patient Encounters, by Richard Frankel. Co-published with the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.