The Relevant Thing about Her: Social Identity Categories in Use

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‘Older people’ talking as if they are not older people: Positioning theory as an explanation (2006, background): “Even her praise is rather limited, treating him as a less than full member, particularly through the downgrade of status of describing him as a boy although he would usually be categorised as a man, c.f. Edwards’ (1998) work on upgrades from ‘girl’ to ‘woman’.”
Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis (2012, background): “Whilst there are, of course, many studies that deploy aspects of Sacks’s work on membership categories, in CA and related disciplines (e.g. discursive psychology: see Antaki and Widdicombe, 1998; Edwards, 1998), there are far fewer studies that claim a specific or ‘pure’ MCA framework.”