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The language sciences are undergoing an interactive turn, as researchers in social neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science increasingly recognize interaction as the arena in which their diverse concerns converge. Underpinning this robust stream of interaction research are decades of cumulative discoveries from Conversation Analysis (CA) on the organization of interactive language use. The CA is an inductive, micro‐analytic, and predominantly qualitative method for studying human social interactions. This chapter describes and illustrates the basic methods of CA. It first situates the method by describing its sociological foundations, key areas of analysis, and particular approach in using naturally occurring data. The chapter analyzes a candidate interactional practice – the assessment‐implicative interrogative – using real data extracts as a demonstration of the …