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Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of intersubjectivity. The contributions show how language codes and creates intersubjectivity, how interactants move towards shared understanding in interaction, how intersubjectivity is central to phenomena and experiences often considered merely individual, and how intersubjectivity evolves through learning. While the core methodology of the studies is Conversation Analysis, the volume highlights the advantages of using several methods to tackle intersubjectivity.

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Where the book's highly contextualized theoretical-empirical breadth proves additionally enriching is in terms of its contributive potential. This is evident not only when it comes to the extension of the empirical purviews of CA with respect to the insightful exploration of the driving forces of human interaction and societal life. But it is also noticeable in its potential to leave a unique mark on the contemporary study of intersubjectivity [...]. Moreover, what further testifies to the book's longevity potential is that it provides an example of how an empirically directed exploratory landscape can prove instrumental not only in testing a theory, but also in taking the intersubjective dialectics as the informative point of departure for identifying the alleys that require further explanatory treatment. -- Vladan Sutanovac, Universitat Wien, on Linguist List 34.519 (10 February 2023)

Where the book’s highly contextualized theoretical-empirical breadth proves additionally enriching is in terms of its contributive potential. This is evident not only when it comes to the extension of the empirical purviews of CA with respect to the insightful exploration of the driving forces of human interaction and societal life. But it is also noticeable in its potential to leave a unique mark on the contemporary study of intersubjectivity [...]. Moreover, what further testifies to the book’s longevity potential is that it provides an example of how an empirically directed exploratory landscape can prove instrumental not only in testing a theory, but also in taking the intersubjective dialectics as the informative point of departure for identifying the alleys that require further explanatory treatment. -- Vladan Sutanovac, Universität Wien, on Linguist List 34.519 (10 February 2023)

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