Talk and Social Structure: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.

Introduction: Structure in action, Don H.Zimmerman and Deirdre Boden. Part 1 Current debates: social structure and the sequential organization of interaction, Thomas P.Wilson reflection on tall and social structure, Emmanuel A.Schegloff the school's work of sorting students, Hugh Mehan. Part 2 Talk and institutions: on the institutional character of institutional talk - the case of news interviews, John Heritage and David Greatbatch talk and institution - a reconsideration of the assymetry of doctor-patient interaction, Paul the Have perspective display sequences and the delivery and receipt of diagnostic news, Douglas W.Maynard. Part 3 Structure in action: the structure of direction-giving in interaction, George Psathas hold the phone, Robert Hopper opening sequences in Dutch telephone conservations, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra conversation-in-a-series, Graham Button. Appendix: Transcription notation.