This project makes available for the first time the entire corpus of lectures by a writer whose thought and method influenced a generation of sociologists and sociolinguists.Originally published as two volumes, this special comprehensive single-volume edition contains the complete lectures, beginning with the lectures delivered at UCLA, from Fall 1964 through Spring 1968. Sacks explores a great variety of topics, but two key issues emerge: rules of conversational sequencing, and membership categorization devices. The lectures culminate in the extensive and formal explication of turn-taking delivered in Fall 1967.The second half contains the lectures delivered at UC Irvine from Fall 1968 through Spring 1972. Again, Sacks touches on a wide range of subjects, such as the poetics of ordinary talk, the integrative function of public tragedy, and pauses in the spelling out of a word. The central theme is storytelling in conversation, with an attendant focus on topic. The volume culminates in the elegant dissertation on adjacency pairs which Sacks delivered in Spring, 1972.
Introduction by Emanuel A. Schegloff. Note. Acknowledgments. Part I Fall
1964-Spring
1965. Lecture 1 Rules of conversational sequence. Lecture 2 On
suicide threats getting laughed off. Lecture 3 The correction-invitation
device. Lecture
4. An impromptu survey of the literature. Lecture
5. Suicide
as a device for discovering if anybody cares. Lecture
6. The MIR membership
categorization device. Lecture
7. On questions. Lecture
8. On measuring.
Lecture
9. "I am nothing". Lecture
10. Accountable actions. Lecture
11. On
exchanging glances. Lecture
12. Sequencing: Utterances, jokes, and questions.
Lecture
13. On proverbs. Lecture
14. The inference-making machine. Appendix
A. A Note on the Editing. Part II Fall
1965. [ Lecture 1 and 2] [ "The baby
cried. The mommy picked it up."] Handout Group therapy session segment.
Lecture
3. A collaboratively build sentence; The use of 'We'. Lecture
4.
Tying rules. Lecture
5. Tying rules; Insult sequences. Lecture
6. 'You'.
Lecture
7. 'Hotrodders' as a revolutionary category. Lecture
8. Invitations;
Inexhaustable topics; Category-bound activities. Lecture
9. Character appears
on cue; Good grounds for an action. Lecture
10. Clausal construction;
Hotrodding as a test. Lecture
11. Espousing a rule; Exemplary occurrences.
Lecture
12. 'Tearing down;' Non-translatable categories. [ Lecture 13]
[ 'Everyone has to lie']. Lecture
14. The navy pilot [ from Sacks' Research
Notes]. Appendix A. "The baby cried" [ Notes for lecture 1]. Appendix B. "The
baby cried" [ Notes on lecture 2]. Part III Spring
1966. Lecture
1. "The baby
cried. The mommy picked it up". Lecture 1 (R) "The baby cried. The mommy
picked it up". Lecture
2. "The baby cried. The mommy picked it up" (ctd).
Lecture 2 (R) "The baby cried. The mommy picked it up" (ctd). [ Lecture 3]
[ 'Everyone has to lie']. Handout Group therapy session segment. Lecture 04.a
An introduction sequence. Lecture 04.b An introduction sequence (ctd).
Lecture
4. Invitations; Identifications; Category-bound activities. Lecture
5. Proffering identification; The navy pilot; Slots; Paired objects, Adequate
complete utterances. Lecture
6. Omni-relevant devices; Cover identifications.
Lecture
7. Cover topics; Collaborative sentences; Tying rules;
Relational-pair identifications. Lecture
08. Orientation; Being 'phoney;'
Hinting. Lecture
8. 'We;' Category-bound activities. [ Lecture 9]
[ incorporated into lectures 8 and 10]. Lecture
10. Pro-verbs; Performatives;
Position markers; Warnings. Lecture
11. 'You'. Lecture
12. Warnings,
challenges, and corrections; Explanations; Complaining-praising; Games.
Lecture
13. Button-button who's got the button. Lecture
14. Disorderability;
Tying rules. Lecture
15. Tying rules; Playing dumb; Correction-invitation
device. Lecture
16. Possessive pronouns; Possessables and possessitives.
Lecture
17. Pervasive, inexhaustible topics; Emblems. Lecture
18.
'Hotrodders' as a revolutionary category. Lecture
19. Appearance verbs.
Lecture
20. Character appears on cue; Good grounds for an action; An
explanation is the explanation. Lecture
21. Misidentification; Membership
categories; Utterance pairs; Paradoxes. [ Lecture 22] [ combined with lecture
21]. Lecture
23. Agreement; What can be done with language? Lecture
24.
Measurement systems. Lecture
25. 'Company' as an alternation category
[ incomplete]. Lecture
26. Being 'chicken' versus 'giving lip back'. Lecture
27. A mis-hearing ("a green?"); A taboo on hearing. Lecture
28.
Intelligibility; Causally efficacious categories. Lecture
29. Place
references; Weak and safe compliments. Lecture
30. Various methodological
issues. Lecture
31. Games: legal and illegal actions. Lecture
32. Seeing an
'imitation'. Lecture
33. On sampling and subjectivity. Appendix A. 'On some
formal properties of children's games'. Appendix B. A Note on the Editing.
Part IV Winter
1967. February
16. Omnirelevant devices; Settinged activities;
'Indicator terms'. March
2. Turn-taking; Collaborative utterances via
appendor questions; Instructions; Directed utterance. March
9. Topic;
Utterance placement; 'Activity occupied' phenomena; Formulations; Euphemisms.
Part V Spring
1967. [ Lecture 1-7] [ 'One party speaks at a time']. Lecture
8.
"Everyone has to lie." Lecture
9. "Everyone has to lie (ctd). [ Lecture 10]
[ incorporated into lectures 9 and 11]. Lecture
11. 'We;' Category-bound
activities, 'Stereotypes'. Lecture
12. Category-bound activities;
Programmatic relevance; Hinting; Being 'phoney'. Lecture
13. Category-bound
activities "The baby cried;" Praising, warning, and challenging; Tautological
proverbs. Lecture
14. 'Cover' categories; Omni-relevance. Lecture 15.1.
'Safe' compliments and complaints. Lecture 15.2. Ultra-rich topics. Lecture
16. Possessables and possessitives. Lecture
17. Claiming possession; Emblems;
Pro-terms and performatives; Utterance positioning. [ Lecture 18] [ Paradoxes].
Part V Spring
1967. [ Lecture 1-7] [ 'One party speaks at a time']. Lecture
8.
"Everyone has to lie". Lecture
9. "Everyone has to lie" (ctd). [ Lecture 10]
[ incorporated into lectures 9 and 11]. Lecture
11. 'We;' Category-bound
activities; Stereotypes'. Lecture
12. Category-bound activities; Programmatic
relevance; Hinting; Being 'phoney'. Lecture
13. Category-bound activities:
"The baby cried;" Praising, warning, and challenging; Tautological proverbs.
Lecture
14. 'Cover' categories; Omni-relevance. Lecture 15.1. 'Safe'
compliments and complaints. Lecture 15.2 Ultra-rich topics. Lecture
16.
Possessables and possessitives. Lecture
17. Claiming possession; Emblems;
Pro-terms and performatives; Utterance positioning. [ Lecture 18] [ Paradoxes].
Part VI Fall
1967. General Introduction. Lecture
1. The speaker sequencing
problem. Lecture
2. The 'one-at-a-time rule; Violations; Complaints; Gossip.
Lecture
3. Bases for 'interruption'. Lecture
4. Utterance completion;
Co-producing an utterance; Appendor clauses. Lecture
5. Utterance completion;
Action sequencing; Appendor questions. Lecture
6. Next-speaker selection
techniques; Paired utterances. Lecture
7. Intentional mis-address; Floor
seekers. Lecture
8. Pre-sequences. Lecture
9. Paradoxes. Lecture
10.
'Everyone gets a chance to talk'. Lecture
011. Pronouns. Lecture
11. Tying
techniques. Lecture
12. Repetition tying; "A green?" ... "Who's Wayne Morse?"
Lecture
13. Tying-based mis-hearings; Locational tying; Pro-verbs and
performatives. Lecture
14. Paraophrasing; Alternative temporal references;
Approximate and precise numbers; Laughter; 'Uh huh'. Part VII Spring
1968.
April
17. Topic. April
24. Second Stories. May
8. Reason for a call;
Tellability. May
22. Pauses in spelling and numbering. May
29. Verb
selection; Interactionally generated invitations; Adequacy of local
environments, etc. Appendix I. 'Introduction'
1965. Bibliography. Index.
