The Relational Habitus: A Lens for Studying Microprocesses of Learning in Context

The Contributions of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics to a Usage‐Based Understanding of Language: Expanding the Transdisciplinary Framework

“…Garfinkel argued against such understanding, claiming, instead, that there is no separation between a theorized social world and individuals’ experiences of it. Rather, social facts are practical constructions, produced in and through mutually recognizable, publicly observable, common sense reasoning practices, that is, methods that members of society use to achieve social order in their local contexts (Garfinkel, , ; Heritage, ; Maynard, ; Maynard & Clayman, ). These methods through which courses of action are produced and recognized are the topics of EM research.…”

“…As noted earlier, this meaning is retained in the term interactional competence as developed in the field of CA in that it refers to a universal interactional infrastructure to which all human beings normatively orient at all times whatever the setting to do the cooperative work of human sociality (Enfield & Sidnell, ; Levinson, ; Schegloff, ). However, in contrast to a theorized Chomskyan competence built on intuitions, CA has been concerned with uncovering the publically witnessable universal infrastructure, as exhibited in the methods used by members to achieve social order (Maynard, ; Sacks, , ). Continuing to use interactional competence to refer to this interactional infrastructure seems appropriate.…”