ABSTRACT
Type 3 focuses on discourse itself, as a performative domain of social action. Both the nature of events (type 1), and the nature of people’s perspectives on events
considered to be at stake here (worked up, managed, topicalized, characteristic of discursive psychology, and of conversation analysis, rhetorical analysis, sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK), and some varieties of narratology. Type 3 essentially reverses the order of the three. Discourse is, analytically, what we have got, what we start with. Whereas we might assume, common-sensically, that events come first, followed by (distorted) understandings of them, followed by (distorted) verbal expressions of those understandings, type 3 inverts that, and treats both understandings and events themselves as participants’ concerns – the stuff the talk works up and deals with.
