Rules at Play: Correcting Projectable Violations of Who Plays Next

Abstract This study examines the situated use of rules and social practices people deploy to correct projectable rule violations in pétanque playing activities. Drawing on Ethnomethodology Conversation Analysis, using naturally occurring video recordings, this article investigates socially organized occasions use, more particularly how for turn-taking at play are reflexively established through interaction. The alternation players is dependent consequential progressivity game it a practical problem when participant projects break “who plays next”. empirical analysis shows that formulating practice indicating correcting incipient who next, which retrospectively invoke establish expectations constitute as particular game. Focusing anticipative corrections rules, revisits concept they played into being, from interactional perspective. We argue demonstrate not prescriptions conduct, but resources render players’ conducts intelligible engaging in.