The Handbook of Conversation Analysis, edited by Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers, is a comprehensive reference for scholars and students in conversation analysis (CA), sociolinguistics, anthropology, and related fields. The book presents five sections, each containing chapters written by leading theorists in CA, primarily from Europe and the US. The first section introduces CA principles, its interdisciplinary roots, and its goals. It discusses the intellectual foundations of CA, emphasizing the study of everyday interactions and the role of common knowledge in social action. The second section explores fundamental structures of conversation, including action formation, turn design, turn-constructional units, turn allocation, and sequence organization. The third section covers key topics in CA, such as embodied action, gaze in conversation, emotion and affect, affiliation, epistemics, question design, response design, reference, phonetics and prosody, grammar, storytelling, and the application of CA in various contexts like children's interaction, psychotherapy, medicine, classrooms, and legal settings. The final section discusses the interdisciplinary nature of CA, its relationship with sociology, communication, anthropology, and linguistics. The book highlights the sequential nature of interaction, the importance of turn-taking, and the role of context in shaping social actions. It also addresses the need for further research in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts, and emphasizes the value of visual data in CA studies. The volume provides a detailed overview of CA's theoretical and methodological foundations, making it an essential resource for researchers and students in the field.The Handbook of Conversation Analysis, edited by Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers, is a comprehensive reference for scholars and students in conversation analysis (CA), sociolinguistics, anthropology, and related fields. The book presents five sections, each containing chapters written by leading theorists in CA, primarily from Europe and the US. The first section introduces CA principles, its interdisciplinary roots, and its goals. It discusses the intellectual foundations of CA, emphasizing the study of everyday interactions and the role of common knowledge in social action. The second section explores fundamental structures of conversation, including action formation, turn design, turn-constructional units, turn allocation, and sequence organization. The third section covers key topics in CA, such as embodied action, gaze in conversation, emotion and affect, affiliation, epistemics, question design, response design, reference, phonetics and prosody, grammar, storytelling, and the application of CA in various contexts like children's interaction, psychotherapy, medicine, classrooms, and legal settings. The final section discusses the interdisciplinary nature of CA, its relationship with sociology, communication, anthropology, and linguistics. The book highlights the sequential nature of interaction, the importance of turn-taking, and the role of context in shaping social actions. It also addresses the need for further research in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts, and emphasizes the value of visual data in CA studies. The volume provides a detailed overview of CA's theoretical and methodological foundations, making it an essential resource for researchers and students in the field.