Two preferences in the organization of reference to persons in conversation and their interaction

Research into the social organization of conversation has, as one type of product, the isolation of a 'preference' operating for some domain(s) of conversation and the depiction of the organizational machinery through which that preference is effected. A variety of such preferences and their organizational instruments have been studied. It regularly turns out that several of them are concurrently relevant, concurrently applicable and concurrently satisfied.

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