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(2018) Culture, practice, and the body, Stuttgart, Metzler.
Picture a group of persons who talk at once and in complete disorder. Would they be able to understand one another? While some ethnographers claim to have encountered this kind of social scenes many times, conversation analysts are convinced that they are impossible due to a general human propensity for sociality and mutual intelligibility. In other words, while the first believe conversational organization to be culture-specific, the latter declare it a cultural universal.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-04606-2_1
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Meyer, C. (2018). Introduction, in Culture, practice, and the body, Stuttgart, Metzler, pp. 1-32.
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