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indexicality  

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  • Indexicality is a term Harold Garfinkel borrowed from linguistics to describe how people make sense of their everyday lives. The term is one of two main concepts in ethnomethodological research. [Source: Encyclopedia of Case Study Research; Indexicality]

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