Article
French
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Abstract
Data session (DS) is an academic practice that subscribes to the specific “analytical mentality”, which is particular to Conversation Analysis in the Ethnomethodological tradition. DS is an exercise, which is collectively achieved and multisemiotically constructed by conversationalists. It is characterized by the repeated projection of audiovisual data, which allows to every participant to propose an analysis. Avoiding to influence their colleagues, those in charge of the DS generally refrain from presenting their fieldwork to introduce their data. Such precautions raises the question if informing the peer perspective facilitates the observability of the corpus and/or if it leads to configuring effects in the interpretation. Analyzing the accomplishment of a DS, we may identify three configuring effects in a conversational way. Starting from a practical problem of definition, ethnographical data appear and participate to the interpretation, from the turn design until the categorization of the phenomenon in the immediate details of the interactions. When ethnographical data are revealed, they then constitute a new document used by researchers to formulate their interpretations, which was, until then, impossible to put to the fore. What is more, the relation between ethnographical data and collective reasoning remains relevant to the ethnomethodological indifference procedure in the sense that object constituting the practical problem is endogenous to the group. In this specific circumstance, configuring effects of the ethnographical data contribute to refine in a significant way the interpretation of participants allowing them to produce a shared understanding without losing their epistemological and methodological naiveté.