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By breaking down what people say and analysing it in great detail, we realise that the words we choose and the ways we speak are not random. There's structure and reason behind every utterance, that speakers are not consciously aware of, but still, expertly manage.
Rosario Neyra

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I love CA because it is truly collective, international, meticulous, beautiful. It is hard work that builds your analytic muscles. I was raised to be a researcher by the CA community and I will always respect that foundation.  It makes sense, it connects with many observations in real life but, many times, also totally suprises you.  It is a solid way of doing research and builds analytic skills that help in other methods too.

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I love CA because it is truly collective, international, meticulous, beautiful. It is hard work that builds your analytic muscles. I was raised to be a researcher by the CA community and I will always respect that foundation.  It makes sense, it connects with many observations in real life but, many times, also totally suprises you.  It is a solid way of doing research and builds analytic skills that help in other methods too.

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How people talk, that’s how people tick!

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Apart from all the things that already have bene mentioned, I love CA because it is done in and by a community of scholars (data sessions). /Johannes Wagner

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Working with CA has helped me in real life: it has refined my observation skills, my attention to details, and my patience! Moreover, CA has taught me how to be "emic" when I interact IRL (not only when I work with data), free myself from prejudgements, and let things emerge from the conversation! I think very few academic frameworks can have such a powerful effect on the discipline they are about in real life! Moreover, the CA community is one of the most friendly ones I have ever met and I am grateful for every person I met in ILEMCA! From an academic perspective, CA gave me a perspective on real language in use that I had not found in any other usage-based approach: it made me really "look" in depth in the turn-by-turn unfolding of a conversation. Once you start looking through these lenses, you do not want to go back!

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Working with CA has helped me in real life: it has refined my observation skills, my attention to details, and my patience! Moreover, CA has taught me how to be "emic" when I interact IRL (not only when I work with data), free myself from prejudgements, and let things emerge from the conversation! I think very few academic frameworks can have such a powerful effect on the discipline they are about in real life! Moreover, the CA community is one of the most friendly ones I have ever met and I am grateful for every person I met in ILEMCA! From an academic perspective, CA gave me a perspective on real language in use that I had not found in any other usage-based approach: it made me really "look" in depth in the turn-by-turn unfolding of a conversation. Once you start looking through these lenses, you do not want to go back!

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I love CA because it is all about real people doing real things in a real world. I feel doing CA helps me to understand what it means to be a human being. / Niina Lilja

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I've been interested in interaction all my life! Basically, interaction and the order of social action are related to everything in life. But why CA? Why not any other approach? When analyzing my data (which I have collected ethnoragptically and which I am involved myself as an observer), I've realized that sometimes my observations that I hade made based on entirely the ethnographip work are not the same as the ones that I have made based on the detailed CA analysis based on video recordings. I really think that detailed analysis is needed. It's been also said that happiness is the ability to pay attention to the details. / Laura Eilola

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it helps me understanding fundamental things about how we humans interact with each other - how are we actually able to communicate with one another? How (and where) do misunderstandings occur and how are participants in interaction able to solve and move past them - or not?
CA is great because it is useful to so many disciplines - not only social studies and linguistics but also with in health and engineering. How do doctors and patients actually interact? Why do people get annoyed with specific programs or applications? We can understand and explain so many things when we take the principles of social interaction as point of departure
/Nathalie Schümchen

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it is a robust method that allows us to find orderliness in talk-in-interaction. The whole process is fascinating. From getting the data, watching it over and over to creating collections of a specific phenomenon. Also, working with a language other than English is truly exciting as the findings are novel and a contribution to studies on language and social interaction from a less traditional perspective.

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it shows how profoundly poetic social life is. Anders Hougaard

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I like CA because it brings me close to the details of everyday life. I’m especially interested in language aspects, and I wouldn’t know how to argue for things I see in the data if I couldn’t also see the details in how utterances are delivered and other people’s reactions to them. /Jakob Steensig

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I like CA because it brings me close to the details of everyday life. I’m especially interested in language aspects, and I wouldn’t know how to argue for things I see in the data if I couldn’t also see the details in how utterances are delivered and other people’s reactions to them. /Jakob Steensig

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So many studies are about people's intentions or the effect of their actions, and often the methodology is not really suited to say anything about either of them (interviews, surveys, self-reports). But CA focuses on participant action in real time in real life, and the methodology is perfectly suited for that purpose.

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One aspect that I love about CA is its concreteness. When we think about 'big topics' such as freedom of will, diversity or inclusion they seem to be so abstract, but none of these issues will exist when not enacted in interactions. In interaction people allow or deny each other to participate in the construction of meaning. I am fascinated how these 'simple' everyday life interactions are the basis of how we achieve these big issues in collaboration with others. Often when I transcribe and analyze my data, I am surprised how invent-full people are in working with and especially around each other actions and expectations (and sometimes this even makes me laugh). / Antonia Krummheuer

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it is driven by data and is an emic perspective of what participants actually do in interaction. It shows how we build on each other's actions and how tiny details can make a difference in how a turn is interpreted by others. Especially multimodal CA can show that what we say is not the whole story and how beautifully and in a way effortlessly we orchestrate complicated ensembles of bodily behaviour to build
meanings. / Minttu Vänttinen

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CA offers a psychologically interesting window into how attentive people generally are towards each other’s actions and conversational contributions (and expect people to be) in real-world situations.
Søren Beck Nielsen

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it shows how much we influence each other when we communicate

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it produces ecologically valid findings

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CA shows how communication works in real-life situations and not in constructed situations.

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Anyone who's ever looked at people as they move around the world and talk to each other, and wondered "how do they do that?" will love Conversation Analysis. It gets you right to the heart of what people are doing, and uncovers unsuspected subtleties and skills in how they do it.
Charles Antaki

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How people get things done on a daily basis is one of the most interesting issues to study. CA is in my view the best way to uncover it, since it is collaborative, detailed, systematic, produces solid findings, and I have fun doing it/ Catherine Brouwer

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CA hjælper mig til at forstå grammatik - det viser sig at "igår jeg ringede til banken" ikke betyder* det samme som "igår ringede jeg til banken". Det er ret vigtigt at forklare folk som tror at det første bare er fejl.
*) bruges til samme interaktionelle handling
/Ditte Zachariassen