Burdelski2022

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Burdelski2022
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Burdelski2022
Author(s) Matthew Burdelski, Noriko Takei
Title “He’s not Aussie Aussie”: Membership Categorisation in Storytelling Among Family Members and Peers
Editor(s) Anna Filipi, Binh Thanh Ta, Maryanne Theobald
Tag(s) EMCA, Storytelling, Family, Peers
Publisher Springer
Year 2022
Language English
City Singapore
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Pages 375-401
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DOI 10.1007/978-981-16-9955-9_19
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
Book title Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts: Perspectives from Conversation Analysis
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Abstract

This chapter examines storytelling among English-Japanese-speaking family members and peers residing in Australia. It analyses their use of and responses to membership category terms from the membership categorisation devices (MCDs) “nationality” and “race/ethnicity.” Focussing on how membership category terms are deployed in performing social actions and displaying stances, the analysis shows how storytellers and recipients explicitly and implicitly brought up category terms (e.g. ‘Asian,’ ‘Aussie,’ ‘Japanese’) through a range of linguistic resources and practices, including descriptors, reference terms, repair, and predicates detailing the conduct of third parties. The analysis highlights how recipients used category terms to demonstrate their understanding of the persons mentioned by tellers. The chapter addresses what is potentially being learned in storytelling episodes utilising membership category terms and argues that such category terms are an important resource for constructing identity, managing the moral order, and displaying and negotiating views of the social world. Practical recommendations are provided.

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