The Importance of Talk (Continued)

• Ethnomethodologist treats members' descriptions as events within, and constitutive of, the setting.

• Two essential properties of social interaction revealed by ethnomethodological analysis

1. The meanings of words and objects are indexical, i.e. they depend on context. It is only through their use in talk and interaction that words become concretely meaningful.

2. The circumstances that provide context for meaning are themselves reflexively generated through talk and interaction

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