Putting the interaction back into dialogue.
I share the authors' stance on the dialogic or interactional character of language. The authors, however, have left actual interaction out of their conception of dialogue. I sketch a number of organizations of practices of talking and understanding that supply the basic arena for talk-in-interaction. It is by reference to these that mechanisms for speech production and understanding need to be understood.
Schegloff
Emanuel A
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Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551 scheglof@soc.ucla.edu http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/