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Beginning with the topic of conversation, the common focus of attention in this episode is'Cookie's Party'. Cookie is an absent third party who at the time of this conversation had not been seen for some years. Cookie was however once a central figure in the past joint biographies of all but one of the participants in this gathering (as is evidenced in her conversational contributions - line 18 - MB met and married DB after this particular sociable milieu had disbanded). Some ten plus years prior to the gathering from which this episode has been drawn, Cookie had held a house party to which the social group present here had been invited. Such parties were frequent at that time in these peoples biographies, and marked the time in their histories when most weekends would be marked by a visit to local pubs, a party of some sort, or a trip to a local nightclub. Whichever was the case, relatively large amounts of alcohol would be involved as part of a general hedonistic lifestyle. Ten years later on, the participants at this gathering are all married and have to varying degrees 'settled down'. As a conversational topic then, 'Cookie's Party' provides an important biographical and conversational resources for the indexing of commonality and solidarity with which participants can jointly reminisce. As far as the general handling of 'Cookie's Party' as a conversational topic is concerned, in the first instance the talk is being framed retrospectively, that is, as a what I classed earlier as a reminiscence topic type (see Chapter 5). Such topics generally involve drawing on a past events, and importantly, the identification and invocation of past selves. As opposed to individuated events, experiences, and selves (Cf. 'Tommy Fields' below), topics categorised above under reminiscences were those characterised by the identification of common events, experiences and selves. In general, the replayed reality of 'Cookie's Party' is invoked and evaluated consensually. Both the definitions of what happened and the evaluation of those events are in the first instance shared ones. 'Cookie's Party' is framed as a 'good party' at which the current conversational ists were present and all had a good time. In this particular episode salient aspects of 243
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Beginning with the topic <strong>of</strong> conversation, the common focus <strong>of</strong> attention<br />
in this episode is'Cookie's Party'. Cookie is an absent third party who at the<br />
time <strong>of</strong> this conversation had not been seen for some years. Cookie was<br />
however once a central figure in the past joint biographies <strong>of</strong> all but one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
participants in this gathering (as is evidenced in her conversational<br />
contributions - line 18 - MB met and married DB after this particular sociable<br />
milieu had disbanded). Some ten plus years prior to the gathering from which<br />
this episode has been drawn, Cookie had held a house party to which the<br />
social group present here had been invited. Such parties were frequent at that<br />
time in these peoples biographies, and marked the time in their histories when<br />
most weekends would be marked by a visit to local pubs, a party <strong>of</strong> some sort,<br />
or a trip to a local nightclub. Whichever was the case, relatively large amounts<br />
<strong>of</strong> alcohol would be involved as part <strong>of</strong> a general hedonistic lifestyle. Ten<br />
years later on, the participants at this gathering are all married and have to<br />
varying degrees 'settled down'. As a conversational topic then, 'Cookie's<br />
Party' provides an important biographical and conversational resources for the<br />
indexing <strong>of</strong> commonality and solidarity with which participants can jointly<br />
reminisce.<br />
As far as the general handling <strong>of</strong> 'Cookie's Party' as a conversational<br />
topic is concerned, in the first instance the talk is being framed retrospectively,<br />
that is, as a what I classed earlier as a reminiscence topic type (see Chapter<br />
5). Such topics generally involve drawing on a past events, and importantly,<br />
the identification and invocation <strong>of</strong> past selves. As opposed to individuated<br />
events, experiences, and selves (Cf. 'Tommy Fields' below), topics<br />
categorised above under reminiscences were those characterised by the<br />
identification <strong>of</strong> common events, experiences and selves.<br />
In general, the replayed reality <strong>of</strong> 'Cookie's Party' is invoked and<br />
evaluated consensually. Both the definitions <strong>of</strong> what happened and the<br />
evaluation <strong>of</strong> those events are in the first instance shared ones. 'Cookie's<br />
Party' is framed as a 'good party' at which the current conversational ists were<br />
present and all had a good time. In this particular episode salient aspects <strong>of</strong><br />
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