Relying on the methodology of conversation analysis, this article examines a practice in ordi-If I was told anything that was a theory, I would say, "No, no! That does not interest me."-Ludwig Wittgenstein C onversation analytic researchers across the disciplines of communication, linguistics, and sociology have, for more than 30 years, worked to describe and explicate "the competences that ordinary speakers use and rely on in participating in intelligible, socially organized interaction"
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