Abstract
Analysis of talk-in-interaction, which attempts to consider everything to be locally achieved in and through the actual course of interaction, often encounters the following criticism : It cannot take into account anything outside the local operations of interaction. The criticism implies that (a) analysis of talk-in-interaction ignores possibilities for interaction to be influenced from the outside and that (b) it eliminates from the start the possibility of any existence outside interaction. The aim of this paper is to show, against this criticism, that (1) existence of the outside is as such irrelevant to analysis of interaction, that (2) appearance of such existence to be relevant is based on a kind of delusion originated in conceptual confusions, and that (3) existence outside interaction is also interactively achieved as such. Here, metal phenomena, which tend to be considered hidden from interaction, are taken as an example. In the analysis of some conversational materials, it is shown that mental phenomena are interactive phenomena to be investigated in their own right.
