GEORGE PSATHAS ON ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS

This is a video made to a professor of the University of Boston, George Psathas. In this video, he talks about conversation analysis, cover topics like the machinery in which oral texts are produced. And he talks about orderliness in conversations. Watching this video clarifies issues about CA.

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