Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
Wieder begins to analyze talk as consequential activity in its own right, as embodying and enlivening social structure in use
He documents how the normative order is locally constituted and reproduced:
It was through ordinary interactions in the setting in which the "business" of the setting was being accomplished that the code was empirically manifested as a part or feature of the setting as well as being about it. In their occasioned talk, residents provided descriptions and explanations of the conduct. They identified (largely by naming) their actions as instances of patterned, more or less uniform conduct that would be done by any resident. They pointed to the ways that these patterns of action were produced by the constraint of normative requirement.