Bilmes1985

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Bilmes1985
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Author(s) Jack Bilmes
Title “Why that now?”: Two kinds of conversational meaning
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Tag(s) EMCA
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Year 1985
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Journal Discourse Processes
Volume 8
Number 3
Pages 319–355
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DOI 10.1080/01638538509544620
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Abstract

In conversational analysis, the meaning of an utterance‐in‐conversation is the hearing given to the utterance by the participants, as displayed in their responses. This orientation to participants is very clear in conversational analytic studies and quite consistent with an interactional approach. What is perhaps less clear is that there is another way, within the framework of conversational analysis, of arriving at interpretations of utterances. These latter interpretations are referred to here as “conversationally grounded analyst's interpretations,” and they may be quite distinct from participant hearings. An exchange during a family therapy session is examined in detail to illustrate the notion of an analyst's interpretation. Finally, the usefulness of such a concept in the analysis of conversation is discussed.

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