Abstract
We ask what it is about natural language that permits speakers and auditors to hear, and in other ways to witness, the objective production and objective display of commonsense knowledge, and of practical circumstances, practical actions, and practical sociological reasoning as well? What is it about natural language that makes these phenomena observable–reportable, i.e., accountable phenomena? For speakers and auditors the practices of natural language somehow exhibit these phenomena in the particulars of speaking, and that these phenomena are exhibited is itself, and thereby, made exhibitable in further description, remark, questions, and in other ways for the telling.