Schegloff2005

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Schegloff2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key Schegloff2005
Author(s) Emanuel A. Schegloff
Title On integrity in inquiry... of the investigated, not the investigator
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Tag(s) EMCA, action, conversation, integrity, interaction, sequence, turn
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Year 2005
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 7
Number 4-5
Pages 455–480
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DOI 10.1177/1461445605054402
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Abstract

The article begins with a sketch of the relation of interaction to language and to culture, and of the students of interaction to the students of language and of culture. A 10-second segment of recorded interaction at a family dinner is then examined in a fashion meant to preserve the integrity1 of what is being done interactionally while incorporating attention to the deployment of various facets of the language that is used, and its relationship to simultaneously ongoing bodily doings. An interactional practice – whining – from that episode is then juxtaposed with the same practice in several other segments of interaction in the interests of developing a more formal, transsituational account. The viability of research focused on phenomena in an analytically distinct domain of events while preserving the integrity of the occasions in which instances of the phenomenon occurred is then reviewed, using a case study of the conjoint use of phonetic analysis and conversation analysis. The article concludes with a reply to Levinson's article in this special issue of the journal, and uses the occasion to sketch the relationship between interaction and so-called ‘macro’ social and cultural formations such as kinship.

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