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5 Lay Explanations 83
Adrian Furnham
6 A Conversation Approach to Explanation, with Emphasis
on Politeness and Accounting 		105
William Turnbull
7 Excuses in Everyday Interaction 131
Bernard Weiner
PART II EXPLANATIONS AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS 147
8 Legal Fictions: Telling Stories and Doing Justice 149
Lance Bennett
9 The Account Episode in Close Relationships 167
Frank D. Fincham
10 Explanation as Legitimation: Excuse-Making in Organizations 183
Robert J. Bies and Sim B. Sitkin
11 Alternative Knowledge Sources in Explanations of
Racist Events 		199
Philomena Essed
12 The Social-Interactive Aspects of Account-Giving 225
Michael J. Cody and David O. Braaten
13 Storytelling as Collaborative Reasoning:
Co-Narratives in Incest Case Accounts 		245
Karin Aronsson and Claes Nilholm
14 What Went Wrong: Communicating Accounts of
Relationship Conflict 		261
Ann L. Weber, John H. Harvey, and Terri L. Orbuch

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Publication Information: Book Title: Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context. Contributors: Margaret L. McLaughlin - editor, Michael J. Cody - editor, Stephen J. Read - editor. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Hillsdale, NJ. Publication Year: 1992. Page Number: viii.
    
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