摘要：This paper presents a historical view of the emergence of what is known as the communi-cative paradigm. Through a personal reminiscence of his long career, Thomas Luckmann entangles the main sources of what was a radical shift of the role of language and commu-nication in the humanities a nd socia l sciences. In doing so, Luckma nn shows that the epis -temologica l and ontological assumptions on which the contemporary study of social inter-action and communicative processes rely were practically non-existent half a century ago. While sociolog y and ling uistics seemed to exist in separate universes during Luckmann's student days, a dia logical approach to lang uage a nd social life eventually appeared – for example, in ethnomethodology, conversational ana lysis a nd French structuralism – a nd laid the foundation to the (today ta ken for granted) idea that socia l realities are the result of human activities.Human social reality and the worldview that motivates and guides interaction are mainly constructed in communicative process es.If socia l rea lity is con-structed in communicative interaction our most reliable knowledge of that reality comes from reconstructions of these processes. Such reconstructions have been greatly facilitated by technological innovation, such as tape- a nd video-recorder, which, alongside theoreti-cal advancements, may explain the timing of the communicative turn. Finally, this paper marks the benefits of sequentia l a nalysis in enabling us to trace step-by-step the process es by which social reality is constructed and reconstructed
关键词：Communicative Pa radigm; Sociolog y; Linguistics; Social Realities; Sequential Analysis
