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The article discusses the theories of historiography through the concepts of sequentiality and intentionality, questioning the notion of historical narrative and the recreation or representation of history. The author analyzes excerpts from the book "General History of the Things of New Spain," also known as the "Florentine Codex," by Bernardino de Sahagún. He uses it as an example for his argument showing the relationship between the historian, narrative, and reader, and the possibility for different interpretations of the events.

It is a well-known fact that the Republic of Korea has followed a rapid growth path since the 1960s. This successful growing experience was accompanied by the maintenance of a moderate economic inequality level and the development of its educational system. Sequential expansion of education was one of the factors which explain how Korea was able to make economic growth and equality compatible. This paper argues that the sequential expansion strategy can still be a useful means for achieving higher growth rates while maintaining low inequality levels. To test this hypothesis, the expansion of upper secondary education is simulated using a partial equilibrium microsimulation model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper works through the methodological issues involved in treating "culture" and "interculturality" as interactionally demonstrable and observable phenomena in written online asynchronous discourse. In particular, the paper explores the ways that conversation analysis (CA) and its focus on sequentiality and membership categorization analysis might aid the analysis of culture as a textural interactional achievement. The paper argues that, while there are some clear differences between sequential talk and written asynchronous discourse, there are still interesting ways in which CA's analytic foci may be worked through in relation to online discourse. Both the concern with sequentiality and with membership categories may well help us to see how the construction of visible and recognizable intercultural discourse practices are accomplished through written modes in online forums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on a corpus of French radio phone-in confidential chats, this paper deals with the resources that participants recurrently employ to get back to a prior course of action following age-inquiry sequences. It might be expected that the age sequence occurs predominantly during the initial, opening part of the phone-call, as part of the caller's identification sequence. Although such occurrences can be found, the age sequence is produced overwhelmingly after the introduction of the reason for call or after a preannouncement of it. The way in which participants link back to the activity preceding the age sequence is related to the sequential placement of the age sequence as well as to the 'authorship' of its initiation and termination. Backlinking turns may therefore be analyzed with respect to their pragmatic effects (as doing restart, continuation, disjunction etc.) and with regard to the syntax and the linguistic units that speakers employ to achieve these effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at demonstrating some analytical potentialities of video data for the study of social interaction. It is based on video recordings of situated activities in their ordinary settings- producing "naturally occurring data" within a naturalistic perspective developed by Harvey SACKS and subsequent research within ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, interactional linguistics and workplace studies. Analysis focuses on a particular kind of video recording, produced during fieldwork in call centers: it shows the payoffs of videotaping telephone calls in professional and institutional contexts. In the previous literature, phone calls have been treated as a case in which audio recordings were adequate for the resources mutually available to the participants themselves. Video documentation of phone calls in work settings shows that they involve, on the part of professional operators, more than talk at work or than talk as work: they make it possible to observe the complex work activities running simultaneously with the call and in the service of the call, i.e. the multi-activity the call taker is engaged in. In this paper, I analyze temporal and structural features of professional multi-activity in three sequential positions: in pre-beginnings, during the call while Internet searches are initiated, and in post-closings. These positions show the finely tuned coordination between the call and the other activities of the operator, as well as the continuity between the call, subsequent calls in a series and the continuous flow of work in the call center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]