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Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Ethnomethodology

Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.eth2
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Overview
  • 3.Social action, social knowledge
    • 3.1Norms and rules
    • 3.2The contexted character of actions
      • 3.2.1Indexicality
      • 3.2.2Reflexivity
    • 3.3Rationality
  • 4.Commonsense reasoning
  • 5.Developments in ethnomethodology
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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