What is conversation analysis? How does it use conversation? How is it similar to ethnomethodology?

What will be an ideal response?


Conversation analysis--a specific method for analyzing the sequential organization and details of conversation; conversation analysis focuses on how reality is constructed, rather than on what it is; detailed analysis of conversational interaction is important since conversation plays a large role in the formation of social organizations; ethnomethodology--focuses on the way that participants construct the social world in which they live--how they “create reality”--rather than on describing the social world itself.

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