CA is naturally developing, growing, changing, but the work of Anita Pomerantz is as good a reminder as any of the core historical strengths of CA, its rigour, its empirical focus, its concern with what happens in conversation in the here-and-now. These are contributions that every budding scholar of CA should read.
Anita Pomerantz, Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication, University at Albany, is a Conversation Analyst who analyses audio and videotapes of interaction to uncover the principles relied upon and the methods used for agreeing and disagreeing, seeking information, and negotiating responsibility for blameworthy and praiseworthy deeds in interpersonal, medical, and legal contexts. She has served as Chair of the Language and Social
Interaction Division of the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association. She received the Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociology Association in Montreal in 2017 and the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis in Loughborough, England in 2018.