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"On Doing Being Ordinary" & "Professional Vision"

The purpose of this research is to examine the degree and kind of relationship between Sacks's "On Doing Being Ordinary" and Goodwin's "Professional Vision." The plan of the research will be to set forth the fundamental design of each work, and then to discuss the extent of resonance between their themes and the work of Harold Garfinkel regarding ethnomethodology.

In "On Doing Being Ordinary," Sacks appears to be making the case that the structure of communication in informal, ordinary conversations can be applied as well to more formal, social speech. However, there are elements of communications strategy that are given more systematic expression in formal, as opposed to ordinary, settings. The vicissitudes of ordinary discourse are such that less systematic ways of communication are involved. Further, the communication strategies appear to involve certain unexpressed assumptions about the scope and limit of overt communication, so that interpersonal processes of thought are at least as important as interpersonal processes of speech. One can therefore look at the results of communications efforts and perhaps duplicate them scientifically. However, this does not necessarily mean that these efforts can be predicted for all cases. Thus, competitive strategies for communication, such as overlapping the other speaker or presuming or anticipating the other's thoughts. On the other hand, the fact that presumption, overlapping, anticipation, and the like can be described indicates that even ordinary communications/speech behavior can be analyzed scientifically, so that communications functions can be identified in terms of their social functions or characteristics as well.

In other words, the function of the analyst of communication, or to one who would reconstruct the entire scope of communicative strategies involved in the process of arriving at meaning, is to organize what is observed about interaction in a particular way. That "way"...

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