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Conversation Constructions in Day-to-Day Life among People: A Study of Common Sense Practices

Vanita Chawadha*

The paper studies antithesis repercussions of structural-functional approaches of conversational practices in a daily life. It is a straightforward ethno-methodological exposition presented by Harold Garfinkel and Alfred Schutz.

There are total four sections in this paper. First section is mainly focused on a term ‘ethnomethodology’ as noticed by Harold Garfinkel. This is contrary to meta narratives theory to discuss daily activities of an individual. It is an important to study the acts/functions performed by an individual in a day to day life, to see a meaningful understanding through situations. Second section is discussed about relationship between ethnomethodology and linguistics via ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism. Third section begins with the correlation between ethnomethodology and linguistic phenomenology then it shows few cases of common understanding language practices in Hindi. Fourth section concludes that language based social activities are subject matter to ethnomethodology.