The Importance of Talk (Continued)
Ethnomethodology treats talk as social action
Wieder viewed residents' telling of the code as to explain their circumstances and experiences
The code constructed the very situations where he encountered it as a description:
"(T)he activity of telling the code... accomplished (or created and sustained) a particular kind of social reality for those who witnessed the scene"
Language when viewed as components of a system of linguistic construction, words become the constitutive building blocks of reality.