Kitzinger-Wilkinson2017

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Kitzinger-Wilkinson2017
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Kitzinger-Wilkinson2017
Author(s) Celia Kitzinger, Sue Wilkinson
Title Referring to persons: Linguistic gender and gender in action – (when) are husbands men?
Editor(s) Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner, John Heritage
Tag(s) EMCA, social categories, doing gender, gender as resource, interactional relevance, linguistic relevance, interactional goals, participant orientations, membership categorization, omnirelevance, person reference
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Pages 189–204
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.273.10kit
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Howpublished
Book title Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff
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Abstract

We examine the relationship between the linguistic gender intrinsic to person reference terms (such as ‘husband’, ‘man’, ‘he’) and the actions participants use them to do. We show that analysts cannot rely on the fact that a term is gendered linguistically as evidence that participants are using it in order to ‘do gender’. First, we show that linguistically gendered terms are not necessarily deployed by reference to their gendered properties, or in order to make gender relevant. Second, we show that linguistically gendered terms are nonetheless a resource for making gender relevant interactionally. Third, we show that the relevance of gender may be invoked or disattended over the course of an interaction in the service of local interactional goals.

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