Lehtinen2009b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Lehtinen2009b |
| Author(s) | Esa Lehtinen |
| Title | Sequential and inferential order in religious action: a conversation analytic perspective |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Sequential organization, Religion, Membership categorization, Seventh-day Adventism |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Langage et société |
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| Number | 4(130) |
| Pages | 15–36 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.3917/ls.130.0015 |
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Abstract
This article is a conversation analytic study of religious interaction. The data consist of audio-recordings of Seventh-day Adventist Bible study in a Finnish congregation. The study shows how religious interaction is related to the inferential and sequential order of interaction. Inferential order is analyzed through examining how the Bible study participants use and rely on categorical knowledge when they describe the events of biblical stories. They use expressions that tie the biblical stories to categories that are relevant in the participants’ world. Sequential order is analyzed through showing how the categorizations are constrained by the sequential organization of the Bible study. Much of the Bible study is organized into question–answer–comment sequences. In their answers the participants design their answers to fit the question, and in the comment the ‘teacher’ of the Bible study can evaluate the answer. Through the practices analyzed in the article the Bible study participants accomplish the situated task of finding how a particular passage of the Bible is relevant and applicable in their own lives, how it ‘speaks’ to them.
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