Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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934108 | Journal of Pragmatics | 2007 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
After setting Sacks’ work on membership categorization in its historical and analytical context, and suggesting some ways of reading the original texts, I sketch the major components of membership categorization devices (MCDs) – collections of categories and rules of application, and then the categories themselves and their features. These discussions lead to some consequences for research practice – both for social science generally and for conversation-analytic practice in particular, and to an initial treatment of some problems that arise in advancing this line of conversation-analytic research.
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