ABSTRACT

This chapter begins by making some basic observations about the interactional organisation of team meeting settings. It illustrates through references to transcribed examples collected from the field, some of the methods through which multidisciplinary meetings are socially and interactionally achieved. The chapter focuses on the local, in situ use, by members, of specific conversational methods and strategies in carrying out a range of activities. It discusses the way in which categories-in-talk, as category flow or display are realised and are managed in and through sequential methods of conversational organisation. The chapter seeks to respecify some of the basic criteria which were evident during the discussion of multidisciplinarity and team. The notion of team roles was a central feature of the models and ideas explored. The chapter utilizes the notion of respecification in a way that corresponds to the notion of deconstructing foundational concepts through the analysis of practical action.