DelCorona2013

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DelCorona2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key DelCorona2013
Author(s) Marcia Del Corona, Ana Cristina Ostermann
Title “Eu não aguento mais!”: a produção de accounts narrativos nas ligações para o serviço de emergência da Brigada Militar (190)
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Tag(s) EMCA, Category Membership, Membership Categorization, Account, Narrative Accounts, Emergency Calls, Institutional Interaction
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Year 2013
Language English
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Journal Calidoscópio
Volume 11
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Pages 178-191
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DOI https://doi.org/10.4013/cld.2013.112.07
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Abstract

By means of the analysis of two hundred telephone emergency calls between callers and call takers at a police service (190), this study, taking a qualitative perspective of talk-in-interaction in institutional contexts (Drew; Heritage, 1992) and of Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) (Sacks, 1992; Sell; Ostermann, 2009), investigates the participants’ co-construction of narrative accounts while negotiating the service to be provided. Following De Fina (2009), we assume that narratives are not coherent and ordered packages, carefully organized in terms of timing and chronology. On the contrary, we take the stance that each narrative is locally and sequentially co-constructed during the interaction. From this perspective, interlocutors do not merely orient to the narrative as a discursive unit, but also to what is being done by means of such narrative (Schegloff, 1997). Our data imparts callers’ sequential orientation to the production of certain membership categories when describing their own actions and their violators’. Such categorization process reveals both (1) an antagonistic relationship between callers and violators and (2) shared knowledge of the mor-ally loaded events (Bergmann, 1998). These two factors guarantee the dispatch of a police car.

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