Perakyla1991a

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Perakyla1991a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Perakyla1991a
Author(s) Anssi Peräkylä, David Silverman
Title Owning experience: describing the experience of other persons
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Tag(s) EMCA, Experience
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Year 1991
Language English
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Volume 11
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Pages 441–480
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DOI 10.1515/text.1.1991.11.3.441
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Abstract

Using conversation analytic methods on data drawn from AIDS counselling sessions, we show how professionals and clients organize their verbal exchanges and body movements when talking about another's inner experiences. When the person being discussed is present, a special problem arises. We show how this problem is constituted and resolved by all the parties collaboratively orienting to a particular organization of knowledge, where the ‘owner’ of the experience stands in a special relation to the descriptions. This leads to a dose analysis of how the parties skillfully invoke the expectations of standard relational pairs (e.g. husband-wife) in accomplishing professional-client encounters. The empirical analysis is tied to a discussion of Wittgenstein's work on intentions and the prospects it holds for a 'post-Romantic' sociology.

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