ABSTRACT
We take intersubjectivity to be the degree to which interlocutors are able to understand, in congruent ways, the matters about which they are interacting. Ethnomethodology is a program of study developed by the American sociologist, Harold Garfinkel, that focuses on the methods participants employ in accomplishing this. Though it supplies a theoretical foundation upon which an empirical program could be built, it is not, as the name might suggest, a research methodology per se. To study how intersubjectivity is accomplished in practical settings, we turn to analytic traditions such as Conversation Analysis (CA), multimodal CA, Context Analysis, and Interaction Analysis to produce descriptive accounts. The chapter surveys lines of inquiry and important contributions made within each of these traditions.
