Beach1993a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Beach1993a |
| Author(s) | Wayne A. Beach |
| Title | The delicacy of preoccupation |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Journal | Text and Performance Quarterly |
| Volume | 13 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 299-312 |
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Abstract
Examination of the details of everyday interaction addresses whether and how poetics emerge in everyday talk. In this study, language users' preoccupations are shown to be tailored to the circumstances they are caught up in and thus occupied with. Analysis reveals how a variety of unwitting usages are delicately connected to situated interactional environments. As descriptive resources, preoccupations arise from and are embedded within momentary and contingent types of actions. In everyday conversations preoccupations may be intentionally constructed and/or immediately recognized, while a host of usages may remain unwitting and unnoticed. In one such occasion, involving reported troubles with planning a wedding, a speaker's preoccupations are coimplicated within the language employed to describe a related yet different set of troubles. Understanding the practical performances of language preoccupations yield an appreciation for how conversational descriptions are poetically organized.
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