TALK AND TAXONOMY A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology with Reference to Terms for Canadian Doctors -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Dedication -- PART ONE. PROGRAMMATICS: THE LOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ADEQUACY OF ETHNOSEMANTICS AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AS SOCIOLOGIES ATTEMPTING TO ACCOUNT FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REGULARITIES, RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS: THREE SOCIOLOGIES -- Positivistic sociology - regularities -- Semantic sociology - constitutive rules -- Interpretive sociology - instructions -- 3. ETHNOSEMANTICS AS SEMANTIC SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AS INTERPRETIVE SOCIOLOGY -- Ethnosemantics as semantic sociology -- Ethnomethodology as interpretive sociology -- 4. LEAVING OUT THE INTERPRETER'S WORK: A METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF ETHNOSEMANTICS BASED ON ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- Ethnosemantics -- GOALS AND THEORY OF CULTURE -- SEMIOTIC BACKGROUND -- Internal critique of ethnosemantics -- THE DATA-GATHERING OPERATION AND THE QUESTION OF ABSTRACTING FROM PRAGMATICS -- SEMANTIC ARRANGEMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF CONTEXT -- Ethnomethodological Critique of Ethnosemantics -- ETHNOSEMANTICS REFORMULATED IN TERMS OF ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- INDEXICALITY AND THE LOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF RESULTS -- Indexical or occasional expressions are those whose -- ACCOMPLISHED SOCIAL ORDER AND RESULTS FOR-ALL-PRACTICAL-PURPOSES -- 5. CONCLUSION -- PART TWO. DATA: USING THE SAME MATERIALS, AN ETHNOSEMANTIC STUDY, AND AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY, OF CULTURAL COMPETENCE -- 6. INTRODUCTION -- 7. TERMS FOR CANADIAN DOCTORS - ETHNOSEMANTICS AND TAXONOMY -- The Lawyers Study -- Such an account was not, however, to be taken as final results -- The Doctors Study -- ELICITING -- RESULTS -- 8. TERMS FOR CANADIAN DOCTORS - ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND TALK.

The data -- "Before we start" -- Lists -- Formulating and emergent meaning -- Validation and variation -- 9. CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE - THE QUESTION OF INTERPRETIVE METHOD -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: TRANSCRIPT OF FIRST PART OF FIRST INTERVIEW.