Natural Order
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
- Vol. 14 (1-2) , 216-222
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x95141012
Abstract
This article argues that the notion of natural language should be treated with caution, for natural language is not an empirical object so much as the product of a particular analytic stance that is sensitive to the action orientation and sequential embeddedness of discourse. The virtue of studying materials that are generated without the influence of researchers (e.g., records of talk in home and work situations) is pressed. However, it is suggested that social psychologists are impeded in pursuing such a course by their adherence to hypothetico deductivist methods, tocognitivist metatheory, and toetic rather than emic styles of analysis.Keywords
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