Reading ‘A tutorial on membership categorization’ by Emanuel Schegloff

Carlin, Andrew P.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2009.06.007

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“…Whereas CA "...specifies the normative structuring and logics of particular courses of social action and their organization into systems through which participants manage turntaking, repair, and other systemic dimensions of interaction" (Heritage, 2005: 104, emphasis added), MCA focuses on "members' methodical practices in describing the world, and displaying their understanding of the world and of the commonsense routine workings of society" (Fitzgerald, Housley & Butler, 2009: 47, emphasis added). Whilst conversation analysts have criticized membership categorization analysis for failing to engage with sequential matters (Schegloff, 2007a), membership categorization analysts have suggested that conversation analysts set "categorization relevances at zero" (Watson, 1997: 50; see also Carlin, 2010). These analytic foci are, unsurprisingly, cashed out in different sorts of empirical studies.…”

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Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

2012

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This article has four aims. First, it will consider explicitly, and polemically, the hierarchical relationship between conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorization analysis (MCA). Whilst the CA ‘juggernaut’ flourishes, the MCA ‘milk float’ is in danger of being run off the road. For MCA to survive either as a separate discipline, or within CA as a focus equivalent to other ‘generic orders of conversation’, I suggest it must generate new types of systematic studies and reveal fundamental categorial practices. With such a goal in mind, the second aim of the article is to provide a set of clear analytic steps and procedures for conducting MCA, which are grounded in basic categorial and sequential concerns. Third, the article aims to demonstrate how order can be found in the intuitively ‘messy’ discourse phenomenon of membership categories, and how to approach their analysis systematically as a robust feature of particular action-oriented environments. Through the exemplar analyses, the final aim of the article is to promote MCA as a method for interrogating culture, reality and society, without recourse to its reputed ‘wild and promiscuous’ analytic approach.

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Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

2012

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“…Though there are numerous disagreements among scholars about how MCDs should be identified or MCA done (see Carlin, 2010;Eglin & Hester, 2003;Schegloff, 2007a;Watson, 1997), the concept is useful as a first step for determining whether a category of person has been associated with a particular activity, behavior, trait, and so forth. This concept treats a "stereotype" as potentially present when the mention of an activity, behavior, trait, or so forth is associated categorically with a group.…”

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How Should I Respond toThem? An Emergent Categorization of Responses to Interpersonally Communicated Stereotypes

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Robles

2015

Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

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Citation: KURYLO, A. and ROBLES, J.S., 2015 communicated. The second approach tests the scheme by applying it, through discourse analysis, to actual instances of stereotypes communicated in recordings of naturally-occurring conversation. In doing so, we examine how stereotypes are maintained despite social movements such as political correctness, public intolerance of racism, and celebrations in all sectors (from education to international relations) of diversity and of the value of intercultural communication (Rees, 1993;Thibodaux, 1994;Williams, 1995). Thus, the research presented here has important implications for why barriers to intercultural understanding and communication continue to exist.This project contributes to research in quantitative, qualitative, and discourse approaches to intercultural communication; investigates specific ways in which stereotypes are formulated and

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“…In recent years MCA continues to be used and debated (cf. Carlin, 2010;Schegloff, 2007aSchegloff, , 2007c.…”

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Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

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2012

APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, Vol 2: Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative, Neuropsychological, and Bio

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Reading ‘A tutorial on membership categorization’ by Emanuel Schegloff

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

How Should I Respond toThem? An Emergent Categorization of Responses to Interpersonally Communicated Stereotypes

Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

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