Specifying the ethnomethodological “what more?”

This internal monologue is fictional. Internal monologues can be fundamentally dialogical, as Bakhtin (1984) shows in the analysis of much of Dostoevsky’s oeuvre; and dialogues can be entirely monological. Bakhtin supports his analysis by showing how an internal monologue can be represented as a conversation between the protagonist and his own voice reflected through the perspectives of others. I used the reverse procedure, writing a dialogue first and then transposing it into an internal monologue. In parts of this editorial, the literary ‘I’ and the author in the text are blended, but both are, following Bakhtin, literary figures and therefore different from the author in his everyday life. This is also and especially the case even for autobiographies (see, e.g., Bakhtin and Medvedev 1978).

See Roth et al. (2008).

See Roth (2008).

See Garfinkel (1996).

See Garfinkel and Sacks (1986, p. 172).