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Description: Deontics is a topic of conversation-analytic inquiry, focusing on how participants’ rights to determine action are oriented to and drawn upon, as observable in the ways in which the participants design their actions and organize them as sequences of action. In focusing on participants’ orientations to what “ought-to-be”—what will be forbidden, obligatory, or permissible (the ancient Greek word deon, “that which is binding”), research in deontics contributes to the filling of the traditional gap between conversation analysis and the sociological theorizing of power and authority (Stevanovic 2018).