[We held a workshop on Conversation Analysis at the annual meeting of the Jpn Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences in March 2003.]
This workshop aims at the reconstruction of the concept of grammar as parctices of arranging words in and through the actual development of interaction. We align ourselves with the recent attempts by some functuional linguists to reconsider grammar by focusing on actual data from naturally occurring interaction, but at the same time attempt to go beyond their "frequency" analysis to have a grip on the normative structures of the practices of arranging words in interaction. This workshop is a continuation to the previous one and examines possible directions that Conversation Analysis (developed by H. Sacks, E.A. Schegloff etc.) may be able to take, by focusing on another classical topic for human sciences, i.e., grammar.