Book
Telling how texts talk: essays on reading and ethnomethodology
Routledge and Kegan Paul
1982
Abstract
Two distinct but related things are going on in these essays. They try to give specific instances of how ethnomethodological studies of a particular variety of social subject, 'readings', might get underway. In treating textual exchange, these essays make a small contribution towards the extension of ethnomethodology's scope - an extension into that sphere of interaction lying beyond the purely 'face-to-face' domain. This is certainly no unique step. Indeed a corpus of relevant materials has begun to emerge quite recently (particularly Psathas, 1979b; Schenkein, 1979; Anderson and Sharrock, 1979)(1) Giving instantiations of reading-analytic work in ethnomethodology is the first thing, then.
The second is to examine ethnomethodology's relation to 'textuality' more generally; to pose problems for its analytic practice, for its conception of 'science'/'theory' and for its reliance upon the 'methodic' as a real order of events; and to pose those problems in relation to questions of 'reading' and 'text'.
These two aspects of the work need not be seen as distinct.
Details
- Title
- Telling how texts talk: essays on reading and ethnomethodology
- Authors/Creators
- A. McHoul (Author/Creator)
- Publisher
- Routledge and Kegan Paul; London, England
- Identifiers
- 0710090471; 991005540804907891
- Copyright
- 1982 Alec McHoul
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book
- Note
- Series: The International library of phenomenology and moral sciences
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