Content of the course

Content of the course, week by week, day by day

1.       Introduction

2.       Two models for communication (Winkin)

3.       Two examples (Temporal organization of the activities):
making music together (Schutz, Halbwacks), walking together (Ryave & Schenkhein, Gilbert)

4.       The constitution of the perceptual world (Gestalt Theory): Wertheimer, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty

5.       Group: Ash, Milgram, military (King, Goldworthy)

6.       Self: Mead, Goffman, Blumer

7.       Frame Analysis: Bateson, Schutz, Goffman

8.       Interaction order: Goffman

9.       Ritual and symbolism: Durkheim, Schutz

10.   Institutional order (speech acts): Austin, Searle, Sbisà

11.   Action, activities, intentionality: Searle, Dreyfus

12.   Emotions: Goffman, Mauss,

13.   Senses: Simmel, Watson, Rotter

14.   Meaning and interpretation: Mead, Malinowski, Geertz, Gadamer

15.   Filogenesis, ontogenesis: Tomasello, Clark, Levinson

16.   Animals: Sumpter, Goode, Strum & Latour, Clever Hans, Pavlov (yawning)

17.   Fields and worlds: Park, Blumer, Becker

18.   Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (context): Saussure, Hymes,

19.   Ethno-methodology: Garfinkel, Liberman, Livingston, Bjelic,

20.   Talking together (conversation analysis): Sacks, Schegloff

21.   Transcription 1, Theory: Duranti,

22. Transcription 2, Practice:   

23.   Workplace studies: Goodwin, Heath

24.   Institutional interaction: