Gene Lerner

Gene Lerner

@glerner.bsky.social

My research centers on language use, body behavior and very young children insofar as these (together and separately) exhibit the formal structures and local organization of practical sequential action in interaction.

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This olde exchange concerning the place of ‘social-structural’ considerations in descriptions of the organizations of talk-in-interaction was recently brought to mind. (Perhaps the ‘obscurity’ involved was there to shield the suggestion from promiscuous application!) #EMCA

Over the years, I’ve sometimes given grad students the list of reading - as I then recalled it - that Sacks gave me when we first met. Yesterday, I came across my original list, while rummaging through a file folder of my earliest lecture notes from grad school. Here is the actual list. Enjoy!

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Perhaps I should have made it clear that when I wrote “We didn’t know that these small sequences just kept ‘bipping along’” I was echoing what Harvey said to me, not giving my own opinion.

And when I wrote, “There were reasons for this shift” I was also thinking of something Manny once mentioned about this: That Harvey thought it would just be too easy for people to misuse (i.e. stipulate) membership categories, rather than develop them from data.

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