Das Konzept der Präsenzfigur : ein Beitrag zur Integration von Konversationsanalyse und objektiver Hermeneutik

The concept "Präsenzfigur" combines conversation analysis and objektive Hermeneutik to show how language structure and social meaning are related. The concept concentrates on the local sensitivity of interactional structures. Empirical data are not taken to show the realization of context free general structures (e.g. turn taking, conditional relevance). Context sensitivity is analysed both as document and result of the selectivity, inherent in the participants’ activities in contributing to the local construction of social organization according to their dominant orientations as participants. For empirical analysis a four step modell (including maximal and minimal contrast) is proposed