Conceptual approaches to claimsmaking often feature the overarching symbolic templates of political culture or else the strategic actor of the social movement framing approach. Both approaches have value, but neither shows adequately how cultural context influences claimsmaking in everyday situations. To better understand cultural context and situated claimsmaking together, we retheorize the concept of discursive field, showing how such a field is sustained through interaction. Claimsmakers craft claims from basic symbolic categories, in line with the appropriate style for a scene of interaction. Scene style induces external and internal boundaries to a discursive field, making some claims illegitimate and others inappropriate or else subordinate in a given scene. Conceptualizing how culture works in a discursive field helps us better understand what claimsmakers can say, how, and where. We illustrate the theoretical reconstruction with an ethnographic and archival study of different settings of a housing advocacy campaign.

提出主张的概念方法通常以政治文化的总体象征性模板为特征，或者以社会运动框架方法的战略参与者为特征。两种方法都有其价值，但都没有充分显示出文化背景如何影响日常情况下的主张。为了更好地理解文化背景和共同提出的主张，我们对话语场的概念进行了重新理论化，说明了这种场如何通过交互作用得以维持。声明制作者根据基本的符号类别来制作声明，并与交互场景的适当样式保持一致。场景风格在话语领域引入外部和内部边界，从而使某些主张不合法，而另一些主张则不合适，或者在给定场景中从属。概念化文化在话语领域的工作方式有助于我们更好地理解主张者可以说的内容，方式和地点。我们通过人种学和档案研究对住房倡导运动的不同背景进行了理论说明。