ABSTRACT

A recurrent feature of Garfinkel’s famous breaching experiments in which student confederates were instructed to engage an unsuspecting subject in conversation and subsequently insist that they “clarify the sense of (their) commonplace remarks” is the student experimenter’s use, in attempting to realize such “insistence,” of a turn composed of “what do you mean” plus a repetition of some part of the prior talk. Garfinkel suggested that such utterances tended to provoke moral outrage. The analysis presented here aims to explicate just how such utterances work, how they intersect with assumptions about the distribution of knowledge between participants to interaction, and why they might elicit such strong reactions from those to whom they are directed. Data are in American and Canadian English.

摘要

Garfinkel著名的突破性实验的一个经常出现的特征，即指示学生同盟与一个毫无戒心的话题进行交谈，然后坚持认为它们“阐明（他们的）常识性言论的意义”是学生实验者在试图实现这种“坚持”时的用处，由“您的意思”组成的转折，再重复之前演讲的某些部分。加芬克尔（Garfinkel）建议，这种话语会激起道德上的愤怒。在此进行的分析旨在阐明这些话语是如何工作的，它们如何与参与者之间的知识分配之间的交互作用相交，以及为什么它们可能引起那些针对他们的强烈反应。数据使用美国和加拿大英语。