Summary
This paper brings together two different traditions in the study of reference and, more specifically, of some deictical terms: it combines the French tradition of the ›linguistique de l’énonciation‹ with a conversation analytic perspective insisting on the emergent character of the referential processes within the sequential unfolding of talk-in-interaction. These two approaches allow us to consider deixis as an interactional accomplishment by which participants elaborate not only their reference to the world but also their positioning within the socio-contextual space as well as within the discursive space. These ideas are applied to a corpus of sociological interviews, in which deictical reference and positioning are analysed as an interactional achievement of both the interviewee and the interviewer.