Co-operative Engagements upon a Common Semiotic Substrate: Honouring the Life and Work of Charles Goodwin
Co-operative Engagements upon a Common Semiotic Substrate: Honouring the Life and Work of Charles Goodwin

Summary/Abstract: Towards the end of “On doing being ordinary,” Harvey Sacks notes that the omnipresent task of doing being ordinary largely precludes, of course, too many ventures into doing being “extraordinary.” Two of the examples that he gives are waxing eloquent on “the ways that the light hit the grass alongside of the highway this morning”, or in claiming to having “seen God” in some everyday event. Such “ventures outside of being ordinary,” notes Sacks “have unseen virtues and unseen costs” (1984: 418).

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