Analiza conversaţiei: o perspectivă tranzacţională

This study explores the horizon of establishing Conversation Analysis as a field of study and, after reviewing the main perspectives on the conversation, proposes a new perspective, the transactional perspective. The approached topic has a triple articulation: a) firstly, the origins of Conversation Analysis are presented; b) then, it is examined how the profile of the Conversation Analysis as an autonomous scientific discipline was finalized during 1970-2000; c) thirdly, the thesis of conversation as a transaction is exposed and three fundamental roots of the qualitative study of conversation as a transaction are evoked (G. W. Hegel – 1825, Gabriel Tarde – 1899 and Georg Simmel – 1917).