Repair After Next Turn: The Last Structurally Provided Defense of Intersubjectivity in Conversation
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in American Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 97 (5) , 1295-1345
- https://doi.org/10.1086/229903
Abstract
Organizational features of ordinary conversation and other talk-in-interaction provide for the routine display of participants' understandings of one anothers' conduct and of the field of action, thereby building in a routine grounding for intersubjectivity. This same organization provides interactants the resources for recognizing breakdowns of intersubjectivity and for repairing them. This article sets the concern with intersubjectivity in theoretical context, sketches the organization by which it is grounded and defended in ordinary interaction, describes the practices by which trouble in understanding is dealt with, and illustrates what happens when this organization fails to function. Some consequences for contemporary theory and inquiry are suggested.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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