Boyle2000

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Boyle2000
BibType ARTICLE
Key Boyle2000
Author(s) Ronald Boyle
Title Whatever happened to preference organisation?
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Preference organization, Ethnomethodology, Discourse
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Year 2000
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 32
Number 5
Pages 583–604
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DOI 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00060-0
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Abstract

Preference organisation was once a prominent concept in conversation analysis, but it has been construed in a number of mutually incompatible ways and it is now used in a very restricted manner. With the publication of Harvey Sacks' collected lectures, however, it has been possible to take a fresh look at the concept and to provide a criterion of preference. This paper shows that preference can be explained in terms of noticeable absence and accountability. The preferred action is the “seen but unnoticed” action (Garfinkel, 1967), whereas the dispreferred action is of two types. The first is noticeable and accountable, but not sanctionable, while the second is noticeable, accountable and sanctionable. The paper shows how this concept operates in three key lectures by Sacks and in data extracts.

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