Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Repair After Next Turn:
The Last Structurally Provided Defense of 
Intersubjectivity in Conversation." American 
Journal of Sociology 97:5 (1992), 1295-1345.

Organizational features of ordinary conversation
and other talk-ininteraction provide for the 
routine display of participants' understandings
of one anothers' conduct and of the field of 
action, thereby building in a routine grounding
for intersubjectivity. This same organization 
provides interactants the resources for 
recognizing breakdowns of intersubjectivity and 
for repairing them. This article sets the concern
with intersubjectivity in theoretical context,
sketches the organization by which it is grounded
and defended in ordinary interaction, describes 
the practices by which trouble in understanding is
dealt with, and illustrates what happens when this
organization fails to function. Some consequences
for contemporary theory and inquiry are suggested.