National open university of nigeria school of arts and social sciences
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- 2.0 UNIT OBJECTIVES
- 3.0 MAIN CONTENT 3.1 What is Ethnomethodology
| 1.0 Introduction This Unit looks atone of the earliest approaches to discourse analysis. The discussions in this Unit will help you to understand how the approach to language analysis, which you are studying emerged. The earliest practitioners of discourse analysis were not linguists and in contemporary times, discourse analysis is fast adopting a multidisciplinary approach, which makes it relevant not only to linguists, but also sociologist, philosophers, psychologists, political scientists and other social scientists. This Unit will expose you to the earliest ways of studying discourse. 28 2.0 UNIT OBJECTIVES At the end of this Unit, you should be able to • Explain the terms Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis • Describe how to conduct a research using ethnomethodological approach • Describe how language functions in the social world 3.0 MAIN CONTENT 3.1 What is Ethnomethodology? Ethnomethodologyis a blend of the words Ethnography and methodology. It is a branch of Anthropology, which studies people in their environment. Methodology simply refers to the way of doing things. The major focus is the cultural behaviour of the people) and the methods involved in doing a particular thing. The term Ethnomethodology is a sociological term, which describes a discipline that studies how people make sense of their world. How they are able to understand one another to the extent that they are able to exist in an orderly social context. Ethnomethodological approach was developed by a sociologist named Harold Garfinkel. The approach looks at the organization of practical actions and reasoning, the organization of talk-in-interaction. Ethnomethodologists are concerned primarily with Ethnomethodology which is concerned with the how (the methods) by which social order is produced, and shared. One thing that is of central concern to ethnomethodologist is context Their focus is always on the ways in which words are dependent for their meaning on the context in which they are used. Ethnomethodology is concerned basically with the following • Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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