ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I integrate further the problems of narrativity and discourse into the social theory of the multiple realities, following Schutz’s suggestion that both behaviour and acts of speech belong to the same category of spontaneity. Drawing a parallel between the various types of behaviour and various types of acts of speech can offer us clues for a better understanding of behaviour, action, and social action in their ‘syntactic’ structure, ‘semantic’ charges, or ‘pragmatic’ orientations. Acts of speech and narratives are fundamental tools that we use in constructing our experience of the finite provinces of meaning we live in, therefore I include a wider discussion of these matters in this chapter.
