Orienting to the category “ordinary – but special” in an Australian-Italian courtship and marriage narrative

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greer Cavallaro Johnson ◽  
Isabella Paoletti
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Topic Shift ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Moral Stance ◽  
Choice Of Partner ◽  
Evaluation And Assessment

This article explores the possibilities of working ethnomethodological and conversation analysis methods into narrative analytic research, in relation to the understanding of narrative practices and identity work carried out in the course of the interview interaction. More specifically, we discuss how a storyteller (Olivia) in a research interview inserts a complaint story about her mother's intense objection to her choice of partner, into a relatively ordinary romance tale, and subsequently subverts it. Various conversational strategies, such as recipient design, topic shift and evaluation and assessment, are worked alongside the narrative dimensions of tellibility, tellership and moral stance (Ochs & Capps, 2001) to demonstrate the narrative achievement of an ordinary – but special – identity, in the retelling of events related to Olivia's courtship and the first few weeks of her marriage. (Australian-Italian Narrative Research, Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis)

scholarly journals A discursive analysis of the in situ construction of (Japanese) leadership and leader identity in a research interview. Implications for leadership research

Leadership ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Clifton ◽  
Wenjin Dai
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Leader Identity ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
A Site ◽  
Leadership Research

Interviews are a way, if not the key way, in which knowledge of leadership and leader identity is sought. Yet, the interviews as a site of the construction of this knowledge are often “black-boxed” and few scholars consider how the “what” of leadership and leader identity are constructed as in situ social practice. Taking a discursive approach to leadership, and using membership categorization analysis as a methodological tool, this paper considers the identity work that participants do when constructing (Japanese) leadership and leader identity in a research interview. Findings indicate that leader identity is fragmented and contradictory and that identity work is skewed to producing a morally acceptable leader identity that has little to do with revealing underlying truths of leadership as often assumed. On the basis of these findings, we call for the discursive turn in leadership research to go beyond considering leadership-in-action to also consider the way in which both meanings of leadership and leader identities are discursively constructed as in situ social practice, notably in research interviews. Second, we call for more careful consideration and analysis of research interview as a site for building knowledge of leadership and leader identities, which, close analysis reveals to be fluid, changeable, and even contradictory. Third, we argue that researchers should also analyze what the particular constructions of leadership and leader identities “do.” This aligns with calls for more critical approaches to leadership studies that challenge hegemonic views of leadership and seek to make visible the power dynamics of presenting leadership and leader identity in one way rather than another.

Applying conversation analysis methods to online talk: A literature review

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trena Paulus ◽  
Amber Warren ◽  
Jessica Nina Lester
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Analysis Methods

scholarly journals Problems following topic shift in interactions with repaired cleft children

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-193
Author(s):  
Mohammad Azannee Saad ◽  
Mohd Jan Jariah ◽  
Ridwan Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Topic Shift ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communication Breakdowns ◽  
Speech Therapists ◽  
Parent Child

Children with a history of cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) can experience a range of difficulties such as sound articulation errors and reduced psychosocial functioning. This causes interaction with them to contain more frequent communication breakdowns than non-cleft children. The present study shows evidence of such breakdowns involving topic shifts in the interaction between parents and their repaired CL/P children. Interactional data were obtained through a series of recordings of three parent-child sets. The process is guided by the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) while coding of topic shift adopts Crow’s typology (1983). Findings show that topic shift during interaction can indeed cause problems for children with a history of cleft, especially involving palatal cleft. Specifically, through the children’s repair initiations, the problems are manifest when a topic is introduced once the previous topic concludes, when a topic is extended and when a topic is revisited. This study shows that topic shift can potentially be a source of problems to CL/P children. Findings are useful for speech therapists, parents and teachers.

Silence and the narrative research interview

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Philip John Archard ◽  
Michelle O’Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Research ◽  
Research Interview

scholarly journals Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Stokoe
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Road ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Separate Discipline

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.

scholarly journals “Mijn stoma is een #superstoma” : Een discursieve analyse van blogs over stoma’s1

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Lamerichs ◽  
Charlotte van Hooijdonk
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Normative Claim ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Micro Analysis ◽  
Do So

Abstract In this article we present a micro-analysis of 27 English blogs of people who reflect on their illness experience and the ostomy surgery they had to undergo as a result of that illness. We adopt an approach based on two related perspectives: conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Both perspectives consider language as a tool for social action. Our findings demonstrate that the discourse of the blogs serves three important social functions. First, the bloggers are able to describe how they have managed their ill-health for a long time, and how ostomy surgery became an inevitable next step. Second, bloggers can demonstrate their acceptance of the ostomy bag in embodied and personified ways (e.g., naming their bag) as well as emphasizing a return to a new normal. Third, ostomates present their stoma as a transformational occurrence. They do so by emphasizing extraordinary achievements in their lives after their stoma surgery and by displaying a strong normative claim to act as a role model. With this micro-analysis we have attempted to uncover how ostomates engage in identity work vis-à-vis their illness and how this is accomplished in the discourse of their blogs. This fine-grained analysis may be of importance to fellow ostomates and medical professionals, as it highlights the main concerns of ostomates in their experiential account of ostomy surgery.

scholarly journals Biographies in talk: A narrative-discursive research approach

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Stephanie Taylor ◽  
Karen Littleton
Keyword(s):  
Identity Work ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Interactive Process ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Creative Identity ◽  
Interpretative Repertoires ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Canonical Narratives

This paper demonstrates the contribution a synthetic narrativediscursive approach can make to understanding biographical work within a research interview. Our focus is on biographical work as part of the ongoing, interactive process through which identities are taken up. This is of particular interest for people who, for example, are entering a new career and can be seen as “novices” in the sense that they are constructing and claiming a new identity. Following a discussion of the theoretical and methodological background in narrative, discourse analytic and discursive work in social psychology (e.g. Bruner, 1990; Edley, 2001; Potter and Wetherell, 1987; Wetherell, 1998), the paper presents an analysis of biographical talk from an interview study with postgraduate Art and Design students. Our interest is in their identity work, including biographical work, as novices in their fields. The analysis illustrates the approach and the key analytic concepts of, first, shared discursive resources, such as interpretative repertoires (e.g. Edley, 2001) and canonical narratives (e.g. Bruner, 1991), and, secondly, troubled identities (e.g. Wetherell and Edley, 1998; Taylor, 2005a) . It shows how speakers’ biographical accounts are shaped and constrained by the meanings which prevail within the larger society. For our participants, these include established understandings of the nature and origins of an artistic or creative identity, and the biographical trajectory associated with it. The particular focus of our approach is on how, in a speaker’s reflexive work to construct a biographical narrative, the versions produced in previous tellings become a constraint and a source of continuity.

Constructing desirable brides

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-422
Author(s):  
Priti Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Arranged Marriage ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Interview

Abstract This paper utilizes Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine the entwined relationships among interaction, storytelling, and membership categorization. While demonstrating how a storytelling event in a qualitative research interview and the categories constructed within it are skillfully wielded by the teller to meet interactional exigencies, this single case analysis shows how members do culture-in-action (Hester and Eglin 1997) related to arranged marriage negotiations in the Indian context. A close examination of the emic categories produced in the interview reveals how the interactants collaboratively co-construct the social structures surrounding arranged marriages and the notion of ‘desirable’ brides. Illustrating the salience of medium-of-education (MoE) in these emic constructions of desirable brides, the analysis reveals the marginalization of Hindi-medium-educated (HME) women in the arranged marriage sphere.

“I am an adult now”

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
North America ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Young Old ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This narrative-based study employs membership categorization analysis to address the following question: How does a victim of abuse formulate and manage various categories and related descriptive details to story past trauma in ways that bring about new endings or insights in the present? Drawing on data taken from a larger research project on immigrant identity, the analysis centers on a Cambodian-Vietnamese man’s narrative of childhood abuse and adulthood confrontation. It shows how the teller, by recalibrating person (e.g., ‘father-son’, ‘victim-abuser’), age (e.g., ‘young-old’), place (e.g., ‘North America-Vietnam’), and other categorial resources, re-stories people and events and their psycho-social and moral inferences and outcomes. By tracing how this narrative teller reconstitutes himself from ‘victim’ to ‘hero’, this study offers insight into how a local interactional event (e.g., a research interview) may be transformed into a therapeutic exchange. Insights for therapeutic (re)storying, narrative research, and second language (L2) research are discussed.

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