Abstract
The issues I want to discuss in this chapter are questions of linguistic theory that arise from the perspective of interactional sociolinguistics pioneered, among others, by Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman and Harvey Sacks (see Shuy 1972). What have we learned over the last decades by applying micro-conversational analyses to conversational data such as have only recently become available for systematic study through innovations in audio and video technology? What does the interactive approach to communication, which sees communicating as the outcome of exchanges involving more than one active participant, imply for the way we look at linguistic data and for our theories of grammar and meaning? What do conversational exchanges tell us about the interplay of linguistic, sociocultural and contextual presuppositions in interpretation?
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