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Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-22, 12:20 authored by Elizabeth StokoeThis 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.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
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Discourse StudiesVolume
14Issue
3Pages
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STOKOE, E., 2012. Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis. Discourse Studies, 14 (3), pp. 277-303.Publisher
SAGE © The AuthorVersion
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Discourse Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445612441534.ISSN
1461-4456eISSN
1461-7080Publisher version
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