Conversation Analysis.
We welcome the ascendancy of CA, given it seems to attract a higher grade of pedantic snob, and hope to continue efforts to close out real academic discourse in favor of closed-shop, shut-in glee-fests, where farrago barrages will occlude observations of any potential radical ideas.
As a famous (dead) sociologist once remarked, formal methods involve tearing down the walls of a building in order to see what holds the roof up. What CA now gives us is a formal method for tearing down the building so we can understand formal methods for tearing down buildings.
