Poulios2016
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Apostolos Poulios |
| Title | Exploiting the partitioning constancy/inconstancy of Membership Categorization Devices: Evidence from age categorization |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, MCA, Membership Categorization, Age, Identity |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics |
| Volume | 21 |
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| Pages | 338–355 |
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Abstract
This paper adopts the Ethnomethodological approach to the construction of age identities by combining two strands of the Ethnomethodological study of talk-ininteraction, i.e. Conversation Analysis (CA) and, especially, Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA). Ethnomethodology studies the methods individuals use to create the social order within which they interact: it is interested in what Garfinkel calls the “background expectancies” (1967: 37), the commonsense knowledge that members of a society must have in order to function in society. Combining CA and MCA allows us to examine these expectancies or sets of commonsense knowledge as social objects produced during talk by exploring the ways in which talk “index[es] or constitute[s] social and cultural identities, roles, relationships, stances and activities” (Lepper 2000: 4). Therefore, social identities are analyzed as accomplishments of members in the process of everyday interaction.
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