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In sum, the usage of this term reveals several important aspects of informality, both in methodological and in theoretical terms and points to an area of research that has been under-explored in the scholarship on informality: language. The use of such a term raises methodological questions regarding the way in which social science studies phenomena resist definition from local informants within their own societies.  This in turn leads to important theoretical preoccupations about the pragmatics not only of informal practices themselves, but also crucially of the pragmatics of the scholarship of informality. It presents a conundrum: how to name phenomena without a priori ascribing normative value to them, which may or may not be part of the way they are experienced in the world of formal and informal interactions (see Lucy 1993 on pragmatics<ref>Lucy, J. A. 1993. ‘Reflexive language and the human disciplines.’ in John A. Lucy, (ed.),Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 9-32</ref>).

In sum, the usage of this term reveals several important aspects of informality, both in methodological and in theoretical terms and points to an area of research that has been under-explored in the scholarship on informality: language. The use of such a term raises methodological questions regarding the way in which social science studies phenomena resist definition from local informants within their own societies.  This in turn leads to important theoretical preoccupations about the pragmatics not only of informal practices themselves, but also crucially of the pragmatics of the scholarship of informality. It presents a conundrum: how to name phenomena without a priori ascribing normative value to them, which may or may not be part of the way they are experienced in the world of formal and informal interactions (see Lucy 1993 on pragmatics<ref>Lucy, J. A. 1993. ‘Reflexive language and the human disciplines.’ in John A. Lucy, (ed.),Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 9-32</ref>).