Sterphone2022
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Sterphone2022 |
| Author(s) | J. Sterphone |
| Title | Complaining by category: Managing social categories and action ascription in wargame interactions |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Action ascription, Social categories, Intersubjectivity, Complaints, Solidarity, Affirmation |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language & Communication |
| Volume | 84 |
| Number | May 2022 |
| Pages | 46-60 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.03.001 |
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Abstract
This manuscript examines the reflexive relationship between social categories and actions proposed by Harvey Sacks. Using video recordings of interactions at a biannual hobbyist wargaming convention, I use ethnomethodological conversation analysis to investigate how individuals ascribe categories and actions to manage solidarity threats. Specifically, I demonstrate how members (re)characterize some action by proposing the category membership of the person seen to have done it and vice versa. Subsequently, I take up how these practices allow members to manage and mitigate threats to affiliation and solidarity. The analysis focuses on actions produced or received as indicating complainables, with their status as ‘complaints’ being a part of what members negotiate. Ultimately, I argue that this negotiation of categorization and action ascription may point to a potentially omnirelevant and transportable concern for interactants.
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