Kim2013

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Kim2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key Kim2013
Author(s) Hye Ri Stephanie Kim
Title Constructing “an Institution”: A Case from a Korean Student Group Meeting
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Tag(s) EMCA, Institutional, Korean, Student Group
Publisher
Year 2013
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City
Month
Journal Issues in Applied Linguistics
Volume 19
Number
Pages 27–62
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Institution
School
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Edition
Series
Howpublished
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Abstract

Using Conversation Analysis, this study describes how ‘institutionality’ is accomplished in talk-in-interaction by analyzing how the Korean student group members construct themselves as ‘an institution’ through decision-making. Most conversation-analytic research on institutional talk has been of occupational settings. This study, with data from a voluntary student staff group whose meetings are sporadic and without formal phases, illustrates that the group members’ interaction reveals how they construct themselves as a decision-making group whose members embody different social roles, and ultimately as an institution. Two significant practices are discussed. First, the data show that the members actively search for precedents, which later become the most crucial basis for their decision-making. Second, as a strategy of gathering power over others within their institutional boundary, the members frequently depart from the preference structure of ordinary conversation. Overall, this paper contributes to a better understanding of institutionality with data from a quasi-institutional setting in the relatively under-examined language, Korean.

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