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This paper describes features of an interrogation method developed and widely used by law enforcement and private security companies in the U.S. The method is a highly standardized technique of interrogation that is known as a "soft accusation" method, that is, one in which a direct accusation is avoided in the interrogation encounter in favor of other moves that indirectly implicate a subject in wrongful activity. We examine how the method, in contrast to the more common "story elicitation" method, makes use of a "getting acquainted" activity to actually suppress a subject's talk and to initiate and maintain an exceptionally long turn at talk by the interrogator. With this turn, the interrogator develops a case against the subject that is virtually immune to resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we examine the mealtime conduct of three young children 12 to 14 months of age in interaction with an adult caregiver who is serving a meal to one of the children. We shall show that the payoff - how very young children's conduct make visible or "materialize" structures of action and how these structures of action serve as a real time resource for that conduct - bears importantly on a close-order description of how the recognizability and projectability of actions is accomplished moment by moment. We show that children encountera situation in which options for immediately-next actions may be projectable in practice at just the moment the next action becomes imminent. However mundane the feeding routine may appear, it is a socially organized activity, with an emergent structure providing the resource for the recognition and production of actions relevant to it. And it is all the more remarkable that very young children very early on in their encounter with the social world deploy a finely tuned appreciation and use of such structures. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]