A tutorial on membership categorization

By E. Schegloff. 2007

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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The online support group as a community: A micro-analysis of the interaction with a new member (2010, methodology): “This knowledge encompasses what category members are like, or how they behave (Schegloff, 2007a).”
Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis (2012, methodology): “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,…”
Becoming a Problem: Behaviour and Reputation in the Early Years Classroom. (2012, methodology): “(Schegloff, 2007, p. 469) Membership categorisation provided a powerful resource for investigating the ways in which the children in the project classrooms were inducted into the behaviours that characterise the good student, and the sanctions and exclusions that could arise for children who failed…”
Three orders in the organization of human action: On the interface between knowledge, power, and emotion in interaction and social relations (2014, background): “…who pointed out that, in order to make sense of what someone is saying, it is sometimes important to categorize that person in a specific way (see Schegloff 2007a:467); for example, the grasping of a speaker as a “therapist”might be crucially what helps the client to interpret his utterance, for…”
How to get a grip on identities-in-interaction. (What) Does "Positioning" offer more than "Membership Categorization"? Evidence from a mock story (2013, background): “Conversation analysts urge that MCA has to be methodologically restrained by the analytic ap paratus of CA in order not to yield to unbounded speculation (Schegloff, 2007b; Stokoe, 2012a).”
Editorial: Positioning in narrative interaction (2013, methodology): “Moreover, it does not do justice to the state of the art of research about conversational organization (Schegloff, 2007), activity types (Tevinson, 1992) and genre (Hanks, 1996).”