ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the conversational and categorial organisation of talk within the team meetings, as a means of illustrating the local social organisation of the conversational interaction within the transcribed data collected. It also examines the theoretical notion of 'role' and contrast it to members' interactional work in achieving, utilising, displaying role-identity categories in and through the practical, reflexive, accomplishment of local order. The chapter discusses the interactional display/accomplishment of knowledge within the team meetings examined. It also discusses the conversational methods which members use in validating claims within the interactional settings observed. An additional concept that P. Drew and J. Heritage provide in their analytic resume of the Institutional Talk program is that of 'interactional asymmetries in institutional settings'. The chapter explores a specific form of ethnomethodological analysis that seeks to analyse talk and interaction in a manner that incorporates a range of interactional specifics, details and concerns that is not reduced merely to the level of sequential organization.
