Routledge

Useful Weblinks

Discursive Practices

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech
    The speech was delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Click here for video and text of the speech. Part of the speech is analyzed in Unit A3.
  • A Young Boy's Stand on a New Orleans Streetcar
    It was 56 years ago that Jerome Smith, then 10 years old, removed the screen that acted as a barrier between white and black passengers on a New Orleans streetcar. "The streetcar became very hostile," Smith recalls. Click here to listen to Mr. Smith tell his story. The story is analyzed in Unit C2.
  • A Family Conversation
    Frederick Erickson recorded this conversation over an evening meal at the Pastores, a lower-middle-class Italian-American family. Parts of the conversation are analyzed in Unit A8. Click here to watch the video. You will need to have RealPlayer installed on your computer to access the video.

Talk and Identity

  • The speech accent archive holds a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. Recordings of three different non-native speakers of English are analyzed in Unit A7.
  • The Dictionary of American Regional English website has recordings of speakers from different parts of the United States. Some of the recordings are analyzed in Unit C7. To listen to the recordings click here and go to the Audio Samples page on the website.
  • The BBC Voices website has recordings of 1,200 people in conversation from all over the British Isles. The recordings offer a flavor of how people in Britain talk today.
  • Finding a Name that Fits. What is the significance of ethnic labels Hispanic and Latino? Kendra Hamilton's article describes how members of cultural communities contest naming practices. The article is analyzed in Unit C8 and the text of the article is available here.

Introducing Conversation Analysis

  • Charles Antaki's website
    The introductory tutorial on CA is designed by Charles Antaki at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. This site demonstrates CA with British English data.
  • Emanuel Schegloff's website
    The transcription module designed by Emanuel Schegloff at UCLA leads you through careful listening and transcribing conversations in American English.
  • Transana is software for researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you transcribe your data, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues.