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|Full title=LISO talk - Chase Raymond Friday 1st February
|Short title=LISO-02-1-2019
|Short summary=Talk 1st February 2019, 1:30-3:30pm at UCSB: “Category Accounts: Identity and Normativity in Sequences of Action” by @ChaseWRaymond hosted by @KevinAWhitehead at LISO
|Announcement text=Friday, February 1, 2019

1:30-3:30pm

Education 1205


“Category Accounts: Identity and Normativity in Sequences of Action”

Chase Wesley Raymond

Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder

This study investigates the sequentially occasioned provision of what I term ‘category accounts’ in interaction. Category accounts tap into and make use of normative assumptions about identities and membership categories in order to explain away moments of what the participants view as category deviance. To introduce this concept, I focus on sequences in which speakers’ initiations of repair (e.g., Huh?) are oriented to as indicative of a problem of understanding. In the cases examined here, recipients of such initiations of repair treat divergence from some gender/sexuality norm as the source of the misunderstanding, which is revealed through their attempt to resolve the trouble by providing a category account, thereby closing the repair sequence and providing for the resumption of progressivity. These and similar accounting sequences are thus a means through which participants collaboratively normalize momentary departures from normativity, while at the same time reconstituting what exactly constitutes ‘normativity’ and ‘departures therefrom’, and for whom.

Chase Wesley Raymond holds PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics (2014) and Sociology (2016), both from UCLA, and is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests lie at the intersection of language and (different facets of) social identity and normativity, in both ordinary and institutional interaction. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles in Language, Research on Language & Social Interaction, Language in Society, and the Journal of Sociolinguistics.
|Year=2019
|Web link=http://www.liso.ucsb.edu
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|From date=2019/02/01
|To date=2019/02/01
|Address=UCSB
|Location=34.414, 119.8489
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