Schegloff1991a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
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| Author(s) | Emanuel A. Schegloff |
| Title | Conversation analysis and socially shared cognition |
| Editor(s) | Lauren B. Resnick, John M. Levine, Stephanie D. Teasley |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association |
| Year | 1991 |
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| City | Washington, D.C. |
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| Pages | 150–171 |
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| Book title | Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition |
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Abstract
In this effort to develop an appreciation of how the social analysis of conversation relates to socially shared cognition, I will proceed in three stages. First, it seems appropriate in a volume organized, sponsored, and supported by psychologists, and composed for the most part of contributions by psychologists, to indicate some of the resonances that the term socially shared cognition sets off for a sociologist, if only to provide some background for the different approach I take. This introduction will of necessity be limited to a sketch of some of the relevant intellectual background, so boldly drawn as to verge on caricature, but will focus on the relevance of a preoccupation with the procedural sense of and basis for-social sharedness, and with talk-in-interaction as a strategic setting in which to study social sharedness. In a second stage, I will outline briefly a few basic components of that approach to talk-in- interaction that represents the narrower usage of the term conversation analysis, and identify a number of distinct areas in which this approach has explicated ideas that would fall under - or might expand the scope of the study of - socially shared cognition. In the course of this account, I will introduce several central elements of the organization of talk-in-interaction that conversation analysis has focused on and that appear to have multifaceted relevance for the interface between interaction and cognition. I will particularly address the organizations of turn-taking and of repair, one of which provides the arena for the somewhat more detailed undertaking that follows. In the third stage, I will examine a few aspects of that component of the organization of repair that furnishes what I call the last structurally provided defense of intersubjectivity in conversation. By this phrase, I allude to the relevance for participants in interaction of intersubjectivity- the maintenance of a world (including the developing course of the interaction itself) mutually understood by the participants as some same world. I mean to underscore as well that there are structures operating to organize ordinary talk-in-interaction, that these structures engender opportunities to detect and repair problems in the achievement and maintenance of intersubjectivity, and that these opportunities and their use are describable. I will describe two variant forms that efforts to repair problems of inter- subjectivity can take. In the present context, I take this topic to be a centrally relevant aspect of socially shared cognition.
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