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Publication details [#7670]
Pollner, Melvin. 1979. Explicative transactions: Making and managing meaning in traffic court. In Psathas, George, ed. Everyday language: Studies in ethnomethodology. Irvington Publishers. pp. 227–255.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
Interaction in municipal traffic courts is examined as an example of a setting in which some participants, the defendants, arrive in the setting without prior knowledge or understanding of how to behave.