Jack Sidnell is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the structures and practices of talk and interaction in a range of settings. In addition to extensive research in the Caribbean, Sidnell has examined talk in court and among young children. He is the author Talk and Practical Epistemology: The Social Life of Knowledge in a Caribbean Community (2005) and the editor of Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives (2009).
Overall, I was very favorably impressed by Conversation Analysis: An Introduction ... n its own terms, I particularly liked the straightforward, accessible style that Sidnell uses to discuss complex ideas and materials. ( Journal of Sociolinguistics , 1 February 2013) To conclude, this introduction is a rich source of authentic examples and will serve interested students and scholars very well. ( Discourse and Communication , 1 November 2012) The interdisciplinary research method and field of conversation analysis (CA) is remarkably well-suited to helping teachers achieve this objective, because CA provides tools that enable first the perception, and then the scientific description and analysis of regular patterns of human social conduct - patterns that organize, and make meaningful, the world of everyday life. (Language in Society, 2011)