TALK AND TAXONOMY A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology with Reference to Terms for Canadian Doctors -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Dedication -- PART ONE. PROGRAMMATICS: THE LOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ADEQUACY OF ETHNOSEMANTICS AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AS SOCIOLOGIES ATTEMPTING TO ACCOUNT FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REGULARITIES, RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS: THREE SOCIOLOGIES -- Positivistic sociology - regularities -- Semantic sociology - constitutive rules -- Interpretive sociology - instructions -- 3. ETHNOSEMANTICS AS SEMANTIC SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AS INTERPRETIVE SOCIOLOGY -- Ethnosemantics as semantic sociology -- Ethnomethodology as interpretive sociology -- 4. LEAVING OUT THE INTERPRETER'S WORK: A METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF ETHNOSEMANTICS BASED ON ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- Ethnosemantics -- GOALS AND THEORY OF CULTURE -- SEMIOTIC BACKGROUND -- Internal critique of ethnosemantics -- THE DATA-GATHERING OPERATION AND THE QUESTION OF ABSTRACTING FROM PRAGMATICS -- SEMANTIC ARRANGEMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF CONTEXT -- Ethnomethodological Critique of Ethnosemantics -- ETHNOSEMANTICS REFORMULATED IN TERMS OF ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- INDEXICALITY AND THE LOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF RESULTS -- Indexical or occasional expressions are those whose -- ACCOMPLISHED SOCIAL ORDER AND RESULTS FOR-ALL-PRACTICAL-PURPOSES -- 5. CONCLUSION -- PART TWO. DATA: USING THE SAME MATERIALS, AN ETHNOSEMANTIC STUDY, AND AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY, OF CULTURAL COMPETENCE -- 6. INTRODUCTION -- 7. TERMS FOR CANADIAN DOCTORS - ETHNOSEMANTICS AND TAXONOMY -- The Lawyers Study -- Such an account was not, however, to be taken as final results -- The Doctors Study -- ELICITING -- RESULTS -- 8. TERMS FOR CANADIAN DOCTORS - ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND TALK.

The data -- Before we start -- Lists -- Formulating and emergent meaning -- Validation and variation -- 9. CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE - THE QUESTION OF INTERPRETIVE METHOD -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: TRANSCRIPT OF FIRST PART OF FIRST INTERVIEW.

The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.

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