Reality production devices

Consider formulations, or the practices of doing formulating (i.e., giving a description/explaination of something), when the objects of the formulation are 'psychological'. The objects of such formulations in interaction are of a fundamental importance as they involve the specification and respecification of the very things that may well underpin the machinery or apparatus involved in the future production of formulations of any kind. For example, telling someone that an utterance they have made concerning, say, feeling 'unhappy', is because they are 'depressed'. Such a formulation becomes for all-practical-purposes a kind of interactional reality production device, and should not be regarded as just mere description, a particular way of speaking, giving an opinion, or any other type of dead interactional thing. The formulation specifies relevant actions, and is accountable as a specification of such actions, and is indeed an action.