The Concept of Action

About Jack SidnellN. J. Enfield

N. J. Enfield is Professor and Chair in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His work on language and human sociality is based on regular field work in mainland Southeast Asia especially Laos. He has published more than a dozen books and over 100 academic articles. Among his more recent books are Relationship Thinking: Agency Enchrony and Human Sociality (2013) Natural Causes of Language (2014) The Utility of Meaning (2015) and The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge 2014 co-edited with Paul Kockelman and Jack Sidnell). Jack Sidnell is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the structures of talk and interaction. In addition to research in the Caribbean and Vietnam he has examined talk in court and among young children. He is the author of Conversation Analysis: An Introduction (2010) the editor of Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge 2009) and co-editor of Conversational Repair and Human Understanding (Cambridge 2013) The Handbook of Conversation Analysis (2012) and The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge 2014).