ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the use of story formats in team talk-in-interaction. It outlines the methodological approach and presents an analysis of the transcribed materials gathered from the research project a consideration of the topic of narrative and stories within talk-in-interaction. Anthropological work has illustrated how stories express cultural categories, facilitate the sharing of individual experiences and function to maintain and reproduce the normative and cultural organisation of the group. Stories can often be understood to account, in terms of description, explanation and justification for various matters or events. The activity of topic management and the elicitation of extended sequences in the form of stories can therefore be understood to be part and parcel of the methods through which the local organisation of a team meeting is accomplished, how information is exchanged and opinions expressed. The description of the meeting as a resource for teamwork has taken notions such as dialogue, understanding, meaning and the exchange of information for granted.
