In:Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff
Edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 273] 2017
► pp. 211–229
Out of context
An intersection between domestic life and the workplace, as contexts for (business) talk
Published online: 24 May 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.273.12dre
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.273.12dre
This paper explores the intersection between two very different contexts – domestic life and the workplace – and the membrane which lies between them. This membrane is manifest in the practices through which participants come to treat certain of their identities as salient for the present interaction. This is explored through close examination of a conversation, the beginning of which happens to offer a kind of ‘natural laboratory’: the failure by a husband to recognise his wife’s voice when she calls him at work affords us the opportunity to see how each manages the talk as being, respectively, ‘workplace’ or ‘domestic’.
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Keywords: Context, Workplace, Conversational openings, Identities, Telephone calls, Miscommunication
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Context, identities and forms of talk
- 3.On failing to recognise the voice of an intimate
- 4.Workplace calls
- 5.Greetings exchanges
- 6.Conclusion
Notes References
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