pt. 1: Introduction -- Regularities, rules and instructions -- Ethnosemantics as semantic sociology and ethnomethodology as interpretive sociology -- Leaving out the interpreter's work -- Conclusion -- pt. 2: Introduction -- Terms for Canadian doctors: ethnosemantics and taxonomy -- Terms for Canadian doctors: ethnomethodology and talk -- Conclusion
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-117)
