CAN YOU OVERLAP HERE - A QUESTION FOR AN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM

Interdisciplinary teams sometimes view overlapping roles as problemati c. In this article, a 1-min, 7-s segment of team conversation in which ''overlap'' is discussed is subjected to a microanalysis. The analysi s includes an expansion of the meaning of the text (cf. Labov & Fanshe l, 1977) and reveals participants' territoriality in the face of an id eology of interdisciplinary collaboration. The larger ethnographic stu dy of which this is a part, as well as interviews with participants in the conversation, supports the interpretation of the text that is pre sented.