Stokoe2000
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Elizabeth H. Stokoe |
| Title | Toward a Conversation Analytic Approach to Gender and Discourse |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Gender |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Feminism & Psychology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 552–563 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959353500010004018 |
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Abstract
In this article, I set out a conversation analytic approach to the study of links between gender and discourse. Criticizing research findings that confound constructionism with cultural feminism, I move on to assess some conversation analytic approaches to discourse and gender. I challenge recent arguments that feminists are reluctant to use conversation analysis (CA), by pointing to the long tradition of such work in the arena of language and gender. I also challenge the claim that a CA approach does not permit wider political commentary by detailing analyses that reveal the constitution of patriarchy in everyday talk. However, this strand of CA work implicitly essentializes gender by correlating it with particular speech categories. As a solution, I suggest that embracing CA’s attention to participant orientations provides a better analytic approach that can be used to show convincingly the relevance of gender in conversational interaction.
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