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(2010) Human Studies 33 (1).
How does a dead body become a suicide? Rule-breaking a crime? A product of the womb an abortion? Body troubles a disease? Data a fact? The answer, says Harold Garfinkel, is through communication. All of these are accomplished through talk. Not just by the contents of the words spoken, but by their inflection, rapidity, and loudness; and not just by what is said, but by what is not: silences.
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DOI: 10.1007/s10746-010-9141-1
Full citation:
Aho, J. (2010). Review of H. Garfinkel, Toward a sociological theory of information. Human Studies 33 (1), pp. 117-121.
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