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participant observation, 31
participant structures, 32, 234n.59
participation, 174–197
classroom, 154, 175–176
and gender, 174–176, 185–197
and race, 174–185
pedagogy, 26–28, 41, 50–51, 92, 95, 110,
111, 131, 155, 164, 174–175, 202–
203, 210, 237n.98, 243n.22, 256n.24,
277n.66.
See also
 education;
schooling; teaching (teaching style)
Peirce, Charles S., 18, 230n.23, 245n.38
Pennington, Nancy, 250n.18
performance, 19, 47, 49, 51, 81, 232n.35,
241n.3, 252n.38
performative, 60, 215, 247n. 44

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persona.
See
 legal persona
Philips, Susan, 24, 29, 95–96, 134–136,
176, 214, 216, 233n.43, 233n.51,
234n.59, 235n.81, 238nn.114–115,
238n.118, 239n.123, 252n.35,
253n.48, 270n.24, 272n.43
poetic structure, 148–149, 233n.51
political oratory, 19, 231n.29, 245n.38
politics, 5, 29, 47–48, 95, 134, 245n.38
polylogue (polyphony), 158, 159, 163,
247n.42
polysemy, 96
Postone, Moishe, 133, 212, 226n.5,
229n.15, 253n.41, 269n.14
power, 6, 16, 30, 177, 220–223
and language, 6, 29, 171–173, 231n.27,
238n.116, 271n.37, 272n.43
and law, 106
resistance to, 25, 124–125, 234n.68
social, 24–25, 49–50, 60, 62, 101, 207–
208, 213, 217–218, 271n.37
pragmatics, 48, 219, 231n.24, 232n.34,
243n.14.
See also
 metalanguage;
metapragmatic language
pragmatic structure, 218, 232n.34
pragmatic warrants, 58–59, 67, 77, 82, 89,
94–96
Prague School, 18, 230n.23, 231n.26
precedent, 46, 60–62, 242nn.9–10
presupposition, 20–21, 232n.34, 232n.36
indexicality and, 20, 215
principal (footing), 104, 107, 112
procedural history, 57, 59, 60, 62, 69–70,
75
professors, 177
law, 7, 33–34, 38–38, 171–173, 179,
181–183, 200, 241n.3
pronouns, 103, 108, 112, 115, 129–130,
251nn.24–25
propositional meaning, 18, 217. 
See also
denotational meaning; reference;
semantics; text: denotational
prosody (intonation), 151, 181, 188,
234n.61
psychology, 27, 237n.98, 237n.100
question-answer sequences, 36–37, 106,
108, 109, 148–149, 162, 240n.18,
252n.35.
See also
 dialogue; pair-part
structure (adjacency pairs)
quotation.
See
 direct quotation; indirect
quotation; reported speech
race, 15, 23, 26, 78, 119–120, 173, 202–
203, 208–209, 211, 213–214, 234n.59,
239n.121, 249n.8, 277n.67
“minority” students, 222, 225n.3,
240n.20, 259n.11, 260n.14,
275nn.59–67 (
see also
 participation:
and race)
reading, 52–56, 60–64, 83, 94–96, 99–100,
133–134, 169, 246n.40
realism, 114
legal, 13, 219, 227nn.4–6; 228n.9
new legal, 237n.96, 266n.84
recontextualization, 45–49, 52–54, 63,
242n.8, 243n.14, 252n.28
Redmount, Robert, 143, 173, 236n.88,
239n.123
reference, 32, 50, 94, 231n.24, 232n.34
and ideology, 46–50, 63–64, 242n.10,
243n.13
repair, 126, 244n.30, 244n.32, 252n.35
repetition, 146–149, 163, 234n.61,
256nn.20–21
reported speech, 81, 88, 102–113, 153,
158, 162
resistance.
See
 power: resistance to
Rhode, Deborah, 236n.87
role play, 65, 81, 82, 112, 126–127, 131–
132, 254n.11, 257n.32
Rosen, Lawrence, 239n.122
Rosenblum, Victor, 27, 210, 225n.1,
236n.90, 238n.107, 238n.109,
258n.38, 269n.7
Sacks, Harvey, 240n.15
Sander, Richard, 179, 276nn.61–66
Sapir, Edward, 17–18, 230n.18, 230n.20,
230n.23
Sarat, Austin, 29, 32, 227n.3, 228n.8,
235n.81, 239n.6, 246n.41
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 18, 230n.20
Schegloff, Emanuel, 240n.15
Schieffelin, Bambi, 20, 21, 232n.37,
232n.40, 251n.26, 251nn.33–34
Schlegel, John Henry, 269n.1
schooling, 23–25, 49, 50, 60, 233nn.53–54,
234n. 72
Scollon, Ronald, 226n.7

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Scollon, Suzanne, 226n.7
Scott, James, 234n.68
Scribner, Sylvia, 23, 233n.53
Searle, John, 232n.36
semantics, 46–50, 58, 231n.24, 232n.34.