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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Cognitive sociology

Article outline
  • 1.Historical overview
  • 2.The interrelation of interactional sense-making processesand social organization
    • 2.1Interaction
    • 2.2Discourse
    • 2.3Cognition
    • 2.4Organizational activities and materials
  • 3.Key concepts
    • 3.1Interpretive procedures
    • 3.2Expertise
    • 3.3Social organization
    • 3.4Inequality and stratification
    • 3.5Organizational constraints
  • 4.Methodology
  • 5.A sample analysis
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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