• Amaechi Uneke Enyi

  Author

This study, entitled “Ethnomethodology and Social Interaction:An analysis of Naturally
Occurrng Conversation in English as a Second Language” is an ethno-methodological analysis
of spontaneous linguistic interaction. It aims at accounting for the orderly and coordinated
nature of interaction, and by so doing, illuminating how participants themselves order their
interactions and to make sense of their interactive activities. The datum used for the study is a
recorded informal conversation among teachers of Nnodo Secondary School Abakaliki, Ebonyi
State, Nigeria The data was transcribed and analysed paying attention to turn and turn -
sequencing, adjacency pairing, topic change and management, discourse opening and closing
and so on. Our findings show that turn - change, turn - distribution and turn - sequencing,
together with the environment of other turns, are ordered by abstract rules which create different
structuring possibilities that are realizable in particular interactive situations by the participants
involved in the interaction. Our findings also show that the course of interaction is also wholly
managed jointly and locally by the participants who plot its course turn by turn.

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