In:Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction
Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 326] 2021
► pp. 25–39
Organizing the “we” in interaction
Published online: 17 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.326.02ete
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.326.02ete
Abstract
In this paper, I analyse a piece of interaction during
which the participants seem to have trouble arriving at an agreement
in a series of affective evaluations. The sequence does not contain
other initiations of repair, third position repairs or fourth
position repairs, places in which problems of intersubjectivity
become visible in the conversation analytic tradition. I show that
these problems are due to the fact that the participants do not
share an understanding of the nature of the conversation, their
respective roles in it, or their mutual relationship. In the end, I
discuss my analysis in light of the Schuetzian (1953) understanding of
intersubjectivity and suggest that initiating and accomplishing
repair are not the only means for restoring intersubjectivity in
interaction.
Keywords: affective evaluation, assessment, reciprocity of perspectives, Schuetz
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The analysis
- 3.What happens in this sequence of talk?
- 4.Intersubjectivity in interaction
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