Book review: STEPHEN HESTER and PETER EGLIN (eds), Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis. London/Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. viii +193 pp. ISBN 0—7618—0584—2 (pbk), £24.99 (original) (raw)

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Book review: STEPHEN HESTER and PETER EGLIN (eds), Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis. London/Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. viii +193 pp. ISBN 0—7618—0584—2 (pbk), £24.99

Discourse Studies, 2002

Andrew P . Carlin

Abstract

Membership categories are organized descriptions and identifications of individuals, relationships and collectivities people routinely use in making sense of everyday life. They are constituent features of ordinary language practices–ie culture–and the title Culture in ...

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