Robles2015

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Robles2015
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Jessica S. Robles
Title Extreme case (re)formulation as a practice for making hearably racist talk repairable
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Tag(s) EMCA, Racism, Membership Categorization, Repair, Extreme Case Formulations
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Volume 34
Number 4
Pages 390–409
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DOI 10.1177/0261927X15586573
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Abstract

This article investigates the interactional organization of racism through participant production and uptake of explicit racial membership categories across a corpus of 50+ hours of audio-/video-recorded interaction in three U.S. states. The discourse analysis examines one participant method for addressing “hearably racist” talk: echoing extreme versions of the problematic utterance to provide opportunities for repair work on inferable associations between membership categories and category-bound activities. Orienting to implicit inferential material as the source of trouble licenses participant account-seeking; treating the racism as a repairable downgrades its status as an overt instance of racism.

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