Conversation Analysis and Gender: Establishing and Challenging the Relevance of Gender in CA Research

Authors

Stephanie Anne Shelton, University of Georgia in Athens

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Conversation Analysis, Gender, Qualitative Inquiry

Publication Date

3-10-2014

Creative Commons License

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DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1264

Recommended APA Citation

Shelton, S. A. (2014). Conversation Analysis and Gender: Establishing and Challenging the Relevance of Gender in CA Research. The Qualitative Report, 19(10), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1264