introduction

[adam e leeds]

Cornelia,

You might find useful this 1998 article by Michael Silverstein (cite below),
which might give you ways to integrate manifestation of schemata of knowledge
with the flow of talk. It is nice because, among other contributions, it
illustrates with a short conversation segment how linguistic form,
interactional genre, and schemata of shared knowledge a) have a certain
systematicity and b) are strategically deployable. And his article in the most
recent issue of Current Anthropology, while more of a broad-ranging
theoretical summary, rehashes his analysis of that conversation and fleshes
out some details, particularly in the sections on "-onomicization". But then,
it might be hard to appropriate what you want from his work without imbibing
whole his extensive theoretical apparatus.

1998 The Improvisational Performance of Culture in Realtime Discursive
Practice. In K. Sawyer, ed., Creativity in Performance. Greenwich, CT: Ablex
Publishing Corp., pp. 265-312.

Hope that is of use,
Adam E. Leeds
Student @ University of Chicago