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• Archive: Conversational Realities Revisited is a new edition of John Shotter’s 1993 book Conversational Realities.
• Like the first edition, it contests the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological realities of a systematic and structured kind are to be discovered underlying appearances.
• Instead, it claims that such orderly ‘realities’ are both socially constructed and sustained in existence only within the context of people’s disorderly, everyday conversational activities.
• However, this second edition is much more oriented toward practical issues than the first.
• Central to it, is a focus on people’s spontaneous, living, bodily responsiveness to the expressive movements of the others around them, and the dialogically-structured nature of the events occurring in the meetings between them.