By E. C. Cuff
This paintings bargains a mixture of theoretical critique and empirical learn. It criticizes Alfred Schutz's dialogue of a number of realities, Melvin Pollner's account of fact disjunctures, and Dorothy Smith's textual research of a narrative of somebody changing into mentally unwell. Cuff examines transcripts of people conversing approximately marital breakups and a radio software during which a relatives discusses an issue within the presence of a commentator and specialists. the writer stresses the temporal improvement of the presentation and determination of conflicting types of occasions as instructed by way of various people. Contrasting models are proven not to easily conflict or contradict one another yet to supply embellishments and other ways of describing occasions. Cuff exhibits that types aren't rigidly held, and that events exhibit an expertise of the way their types give a contribution to an intersubjective dialog. Co-published with the overseas Institute for Ethnomethodology and dialog research.
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The present account would disintegrate. The reader/hearer would be unable to recover from them a rule under which he could see what the account "was all about". (Smith, 1973: 51. italics in the original) For our purposes, we do not propose to delve deeper into the riches of Smith's article. The outline summary we have just given can serve to generate a number of important points for the analysis of versions in conversational materials that we shall shortly develop. (4) DISCUSSION OF POLLNER, SCHUTZ AND SMITH (a) Pollner and Schutz Pollner's account of versions is clearly in several basic ways very similar to that of Schutz.
Clearly, one aspect of these materials is the fact that in 13 Reproduced in Appendix. 40 PROBLEMS OF VERSIONS 'responding' or 'replying' to what D has said, R can ask for more information, obtain more details, which can serve to fill out and, perhaps, to contrast with the account as initially presented. Here, D is asked 'what did your Mum think about it' (line 42); the views of her husband about D going to college (lines 50 - 52 and 54 - 65); and the 'kind of rows' the couple had (line 78). In this way, from the interaction of D and R and from the consequent display of their mutual orientations to what is being said, the account in some ways can be heard to be 'tested' in terms of its 'acceptability' to at least one hearer.
In describing such matters, she can be taken to be describing a 'unit event' 14 in which she, as a member of the unit, is inextricably implicated. What she has to say in her account can therefore be examined for the part she has played in bringing about the dissolution of the unit; she is morally involved in the troubles of the unit. By 'moral involvement', we are referring to the ways members can standardly and routinely deploy their social knowledge about the nature of unit troubles in order to examine the actions of each member of the unit for his responsibility for what has happened.