Tranekjaer2017

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Tranekjaer2017
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Tranekjaer2017
Author(s) Louise Tranekjær
Title Laughables as a resource for foregrounding shared knowledge and shared identities in intercultural interactions in Scandinavia
Editor(s) Dorien Van De Mieroop, Stephanie Schnurr
Tag(s) EMCA, Scandinavia, Intraculturality, Common sense laughable, Co-membership, Laughables, Membership Categorization Analysis, ideology, construction sites, internship interviews, second-language interactions, student counselling, affiliation, religion
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Pages 185–206
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/dapsac.69.10tra
ISBN 789027206602
Organization
Institution
School
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Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world
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Abstract

This paper employs Membership Categorization Analysis to illustrate how laughables are used as a resource for establishing co-membership and identification with professional and ‘other’ social identities within a range of different work-places in Denmark and Norway. Conversation analytical studies have previously shown how laughables and laughter attend to a range of social functions such as affiliation (Glenn 2010), seeking intimacy and handling ‘troubles talk’ (Jefferson 1984;Jefferson et al. 1987). This paper focuses on the former of these functions and argues that laughables are a resource to propose co-membership (Erickson and Schultz 1982) and that epistemics (Heritage 2012b;Stivers et al 2011) are central to this process. While previous studies have documented the interrelation of professional and other social categories, this chapter shows that laughables are used by participants to foreground (or background) the relevance of shared identities and that this can work to bridge differences in either professional identities or other identities. The chapter furthermore shows how the shared common sense knowledge proposed by the laughable reveals broader structures of meaning and ideologies involved in local negotiations of identities and category memberships (Billig 1991;Billig 2005;Tranekjær 2014;Tranekjær 2015;Wetherell 1998).

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