Re: ref for Harvey Sacks (fwd)

Russ Hunt (HUNT who-is-at academic.stu.StThomasU.ca)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:45:09 AST

Concidentally, within almost an hour of the request for references to
Sacks, a colleague in Brazil, Leland McCleary, responded to something
I said about conversation analysis with this:

> The leading CA theorists are probably better teachers than writers.
> One of the clearest authors may be John Heritage. But now we have
> Sacks HIMSELF. Sacks published very little during his lifetime,
> but his lectures have finally been published, edited by Gail
> Jefferson (_Lectures on Conversation_, Blackwell, 1992). They are
> brilliant, packed with ideas and insights. Don't deprive yourself
> of this treasure.

I'm off to look for it myself . . .

-- Russ
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