Commentary: Frames and contexts: Another look at the macro-micro link

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny; Gumperz, John J.

doi:10.1075/prag.21.2.06coo

Article published In: Reframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society
Edited by Hiroko Takanashi and Joseph Sung-Yul Park
[Pragmatics 21:2] 2011
► pp. 283–286

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Commentary: Frames and contexts

Another look at the macro-micro link

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

John J. Gumperz

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Published online: 1 June 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21.2.06coo

One of the main challenges resulting from the past two decades of shift toward detailed micro-analytic studies of language and interaction has been the awareness of a need to relate microanalysis to wider social-cultural aspects of interactional situations.

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