Lee2023

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Lee2023
BibType ARTICLE
Key Lee2023
Author(s) Yeji Lee, Jakub Mlynář
Title “For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation analysis, Ethnomethodology, Classroom discourse, Exemplification, Social interaction
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Year 2023
Language English
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Journal Human Studies
Volume 46
Number 3
Pages 607–633
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DOI 10.1007/s10746-023-09665-7
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Abstract

Members in society make ubiquitous use of examples as a resource to engage in their everyday and specialized activities. This paper takes the resourcefulness of exemplification as a topic of inquiry by focusing on the formulative phrase “for example,” investigating its interactional work within the analytic framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The data used consists of 11 h of video-recordings of English as a Foreign Language classroom lessons over a semester. We conceptualize exemplification as a holistic configuration (gestalt) where its work consists in the production and recognition of a pair, namely the exemplifying component and the exemplified component. We demonstrate how the teacher and students position the formulative phrase as a recognizable practice for the organization of two distinct actions: accounting for one’s opinion and confirming an understanding. Our findings also present the different forms of exemplification, including elaborate narrative constructions, single terms or phrases, and specimen performances.

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