Research Questions
The group has two basic, integrated foci. The first focus of the research group is to capture and describe the organization of everyday interaction. Our interest in social practices concerns the systematicity and (re)establishment of normative structures through which participants interactively achieve intersubjective understanding. Our second focus is on cognitive and psychological matters that are related to questions such as a) what is cognition for participants in interaction? What is its status and how is it invoked, described and oriented to by speakers in the course of interaction? b) which ressources are employed in the interactional achievement of of meaning. c) what light does interaction research throw on cognition and psychology and questions traditionally posed in these fields? d) how may the foci of interaction research and cognition and psychology be integrated? These questions we apply to many different types of social interaction, ranging from ordinary telephone calls, over imparied communication (e.g. aphasia) to native/non-native interaction.