Conversational Remembering and Uncertainty

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Abstract
Conversational remembering in a medical team is examined for the way it displays and produces interdependencies between members'claims to experience and collectively reasoned understandings of uncertainties in team practice. Analysis of examples of transcribed talk, recorded in weekly team meetings at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, presents three interrelated issues. First, how claims concerning uncertainties ofpast, present, and future experiences in team work are formulated in terms of avowals of remembering and forgetting. Second, how such experience claims are shown to be collectively relevant within the organisation of talk. In particular, how what it is to remember and forget is used rhetorically, both to warrant the place of speakers in the reported experiences and as a means of establishing experience claims as collectively relevant. Third, how an orientation to what is remembered and forgotten is accomplished through the use of hypothetical instances of events and experiences.
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