Harold Garfinkel and Pragmatics

Watson, Rod

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“…Gestalt concepts may help adapt the analytical attitude of all ethnomethodological, including conversation analytical approaches, by way of engaging with a renovation of methods (see Watson, 2008;2016a;2016b). This omission of gestalt concepts from earlier ethnomethodological writings (Garfinkel, 1967) thus further fuels the narrative of the dissertation project at large: Each empirical case study and its ethnographic design is to revolve around the exclusive exploration of gestalt contextures, functional significance, and gestalt coherence (see Gurwitsch, 1964, p., 367;Fele, 2008).…”

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“…There may be evidence of this changing, however, due to a series of key writings which provide Gestalt contextures as a contemporary topic. Further, these writings often discuss indexicality; further still, Rod Watson 23 has of late claimed a renovation of methods may be appropriate for many of ethnomethodology's classical developments (Watson, 2016a, p. 31-39;see also 2008;2016b). If such a renovation of ethnomethodology's classic methods were to occur, then gestalt contextures, ought to be the primary approach taken as "it has become, perhaps, the locus classicus of the concepts of reflexivity and particularly indexicality for later ethnomethodology" (Watson, 2016a, p. 15).…”

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Artwork as Practical Social Action: An Ethnomethodological Study and the New Sociology of Art.

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<p>Few studies in the sociology of art observe artists in their work. Of the few, little investigate the phenomenon of social order, and when they do, they research artists at a distance. Hence, there is room to contribute studies and descriptions of the observable actions artists conduct when they find themselves in the midst of doing their work; that work is argued here as a sociological accomplishment, topic of interest, and evidence of the actual and not imagined practical management of social reality. An emergent literature, the new Sociology of Art, has started to pay close attention toward observing artists’ situated and sequential actions as they occur naturally and in real time. Yet neglected in these often overly conceptual studies are detailed descriptions of artists finding ad hoc solutions to their practical workplace problems. In my motivation to observe artists in their work, I ask how artworks are organised in and as practical social action. With video camera in hand and in aid by the sociological attitudes of ethnomethodology and its research praxis, I aim to explicate social phenomena of order, specifically observable within sites consisting of a street corner, an artist’s studio, an urban café, and river terrain. This thesis presents data first collected and then taken from the large video data corpus to form four single-cases. I recognise in this thesis the effort evident within ethnomethodology’s recent scholarship to acknowledge Aron Gurwitsch’s gestalt concept functional significance as partially influencing Harold Garfinkel’s study of endogenous order. I saw functional significance as an opportunity to explore, rather experimentally, how one artistic action relates to another, and how that interdependence was locally managed by the artists themselves during their artistic processes. This thesis contributes written descriptions of artistic action as social action, findings from which the new Sociology of Art may benefit.</p>

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Artwork as Practical Social Action: An Ethnomethodological Study and the New Sociology of Art.

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The dynamic layering of relational pairs in L2 classrooms

Moutinho

2019

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The focus of this paper will be placed upon the methods people use to interact in second language learning settings, discussing interactional aspects of language use in the ongoing production of classroom events. The extracts selected for analysis were drawn from Portuguese language lessons (for beginner and advanced students) in a Chinese university. The results show how L2 classroom participants secure joint orientation and mutual understanding of the categorial pairs (such as ‘teacher-student’ and ‘native-non-native’) being invoked in the sequential organization of the utterances. In other words, when classroom members show orientation to a categorial pair, their subsequent moves will exhibit predicates (actions) of that pair, which will be available to the analyst as phenomena to be explored. This suggests that the sequential elements of the interaction and the membership categorization work carried out by the participants require attention for praxiological enquiries.

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Harold Garfinkel and Pragmatics

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Artwork as Practical Social Action: An Ethnomethodological Study and the New Sociology of Art.

Artwork as Practical Social Action: An Ethnomethodological Study and the New Sociology of Art.

The dynamic layering of relational pairs in L2 classrooms

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