Publications

Publication details [#53099]

Samra-Fredericks, Dalvir. 2010. Ethnomethodology and the moral accountability of interaction: Navigating the conceptual terrain of ‘face’ and face-work. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (8) : 2147–2157.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | ethnomethodology | face maintenance | interaction | moral argumentation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study sketches aspects of ethnomethodology's contribution to research on ‘face’ and on face-work in terms of participants' interactional achievement. It focuses upon Garfinkel's notion of the moral accountability of action, and Sacks’ seminal work on membership categorization devices.