Emanuel A. Schegloff:  "Analyzing Single
Episodes of Interaction: An Exercise in 
Conversation Analysis,"  Social Psychology 
Quarterly, 50, 2 (1987), 101-114.


A variety of analytic resources provided by past 
work in conversation analysis are brought to bear
on the analysis of a single utterance in its 
sequential context, drawn from an ordinary 
conversation. Various facets of the organization 
of talk-in-interaction are thereby both introduced
and exemplified. The result displays the capacity
of this analytic modality to meet a fundamental
responsibility of social analysis, namely, the 
capacity to explicate single episodes of action in
interaction as a basic locus of social order.