Open AccessConversation Analysis and Gender: Establishing and Challenging the Relevance of Gender in CA Research
Author(s) -
Stephanie Anne Shelton
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1264
Subject(s) - conversation , conversation analysis , relevance (law) , context (archaeology) , sociology , epistemology , qualitative research , point (geometry) , psychology , social psychology , social science , political science , communication , history , philosophy , law , geometry , mathematics , archaeology
In this book review, I addressed the ways that qualitative researchers have examined the links between Conversation Analysis (CA), which often is criticized as a method without context or theory, and the issue of gender. I consider the ways that the editors adopt the controversial position that CA is a politically laden method and that authors extend and challenge existing CA research. I point out the ways that this book both inconsistently connects its chapters and establishes its intended audience, while clearly offering a balanced examination of the ways that gender-in-talk is often relevant but not omnipresent in conversations.