ABSTRACT
Loos's research focuses on the management of meaning by the Dutch and German employees and guests at Parador. Transcripts of actual oral communication are referred to in conjunction with relevant written documents, to reconstruct the intertextual network that employees and guests construct together, by using 'tyings' and 'cues', in order to share meaning. To gain more insight into this management of meaning requires further research based on authentic documents, focusing on the reconstruction of the process involved. Recent empirical studies such as Boden show that actors share meaning in the course of interaction. In Boden's words: Meanings, most importantly, do not occur as isolated cognitive phenomena in the heads of atomized individuals; people are constructed interactively and under quite pressing conditions of time and space. The 'need to know' has a for-the-moment quality that is irreducible to individual cognition; nor can it be abstracted away from the concrete actions and treated as an independent system.
