Membership Categorisation Analysis Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025

The goal of this paper is to provide an account of the documentation of the ethnobotanical knowledge and classification among the speakers of Gujjolaay Eegimaa, an endangered Atlantic and Niger-Congo language spoken by less than 10,000 speakers in Southern Senegal. The assumption made here is that language documentation seeks, among other things, to capture the individual and collective theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of a people about their environment. Such knowledge is, as argued in the literature, encoded in language e.g., in noun class systems where plant names and other nouns are grouped into classes (Coelho, 2006, Foley, 1997, Messineo and Cuneo, 2011) reflecting the way speakers categorise entities which make up their world (D'Andrade, 1995). The paper discusses the strengths and limitations of the research techniques used during the documentation of the Eegimaa speakers’ ethnobotanical knowledge. These techniques include native speaker intuition, elic...

2025, Cognitive Linguistics

This paper investigates the semantic bases of class membership in the noun class system of Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Eegimaa henceforth), a Niger-Congo and Atlantic language of the BAK group spoken in Southern Senegal. The question of whether semantic principles underlie the overt classification of nouns in Niger-Congo languages is a controversial one. There is a common perception of Niger-Congo noun class systems as being mainly semantically arbitrary. The goal of the present paper is to show that physical properties and culture-specific factors are central principles of semantic categorisation in the Eegimaa noun class system. I argue that the Eegimaa overt grammatical classification of nouns into classes is a semantic categorisation system whereby categories are structured according to prototypicality, family resemblance, metaphorical and metonymic extensions and chaining processes, as argued within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. I show that the categorisation of entities in th...

2025

The paper draws on mediative research analysing interaction between home, European and international students in a London university through observations, interviews, and workshops. It argues for an integrative approach to mediative research into student interaction combining insights from interactional discourse approaches with consideration of world-system and postcolonial contexts as they articulate with subject area – here fashion – as a means to transformative intervention. Internationalisation for home students is seen to mean moving from Eurocentric to inter-/transnational frames of reference but also interactional styles, and for institutions, to include developing the outlook, practices and curricula to mediate that.

2025, Language

Invited commentary on the republication of A Simplest Systematics as part of the Centennial celebrations of the journal Language. The publication of A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation by Harvey... more

2025, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

Pragmatic competence allows hearers to infer the speaker's attitude and intentions conveyed by speech or texts departing from the linguistic meaning. Therefore, its study has been acquiring increasing importance within second language assessment for over two decades and different data elicitation instruments have been developed to assess it. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which pragmatic competence can be assessed in oral proficiency interviews (OPIs) at a C1 level using the CEFR descriptors. To carry this out, two OPIs from the most popular examination boards-Cambridge Advanced and Trinity ISE III-and their rating scales have been evaluated according to the new CEFR descriptors for pragmatic competence. The conclusions of our study argue that the CEFR descriptors proposed for pragmatic competence are ambiguous when applied to OPIs. They provide little guidance as to how to incorporate the shades of meaning in language testing. In addition, most of these descriptors lack accuracy and are open to personal interpretation. Finally, some pragmatic aspects such as nonverbal cues have not been accommodated yet.

Unofficial Catalogue of the Harvey Sacks Papers Box 1 to 46. (2017). Fitzgerald, R., Au-Yeung, T., Wu, X., Chen, R. (Collection 1678). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

2025

This is an unofficial catalogue of the first 46 Boxes of c150 boxes of the Harvey Sacks Archive. It was produced over three visits to UCLA in 2017, 2018, 2019 and with the help of Terry Au-Yeung, Wu Xiaoping, and Rachel Chen. The visits were supported by a Grant from the University of Macau. The catalogue is partial, incomplete and with unknown errors due to the nature of the work and the materials but we hope it may be interesting and useful.

2024, Journal of Intercultural Communication

This paper traces the ways in which culture has been integrated into linguistic research in the past 30 years. Recently, more and more authors seem to cautiously refrain from considering culture in their linguistic studies. One reason for this cautiousness may be found in cultural anthropology’s concerns on the deterministic effects of considering culture as a concept of research at all. This paper proposes a concept for precise descriptions of culture in interaction avoiding the risk of imposing culturalist interpretations from a researcher’s perspective. To this aim, approaches from ethno-methodology’s membership categorization analysis (MCA) are combined with Judith Butler’s assumptions on the performativity of discourse and interaction.

2024

We explore employment of the Hebrew construction (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at (lit ‘[I] not M/F-SG.know’), roughly equivalent to English ‘I don’t know’, by callers and hosts in 80 interactions on Israeli political radio phonein programs, as compared with its functions in casual conversation. Five uses were attested in the corpus of radio phone-ins and correlated with the syntactic form of complementation (if available) for each token of the construction: (i) expressing literal lack of knowledge; (ii) expressing epistemic stance of uncertainty / hedging; (iii) gaining cognitive processing time in the midst of self-repair; (iv) expressing affective stance of contempt or criticism; and (v) avoidance strategies. While most of these uses are common to both genres, some are unattested in casual conversation. By exploring the functions of the (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at construction and their distribution according to institutional role, the study (i) sheds further lig...

2024

Tracy and Robles: Questions, questioning, and institutional practices 131 Questions, questioning, and institutional practices: an introduction

2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

2024, International Journal of Communication

Falsehoods targeting political parties and candidates have long been entrenched in Brazilian politics and monitored by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Since the rise of the far right in Brazil, the TSE has itself become a disinformation target. This study aims to unveil disinformation that has been directed at the Brazilian electoral system since 2018 and explore the court's responses. First, we quantitatively analyzed 420 verification articles from the TSE's Fato ou Boato website to identify the falsehoods' origins, targets, narratives, and deceptive strategies. Second, we conducted expert interviews and qualitatively examined official documents to explore counteraction strategies, particularly collaborations with fact-checkers. The findings indicate that disinformation primarily revolves around the alleged vulnerability of the electronic voting system (25%) and supposed illegal actions that have been committed by the TSE (15%). Supreme Federal Court ministers, notably Luís Barroso and Alexandre de Moraes, have become frequent targets. Assaults on the TSE surged from 15% (2018) to 27% (2022). Strengthened collaboration with fact-checkers enhances their societal recognition and significance in the Brazilian public sphere.

2024, International Journal of Communication

Falsehoods targeting political parties and candidates have long been entrenched in Brazilian politics and monitored by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Since the rise of the far right in Brazil, the TSE has itself become a disinformation target. This study aims to unveil disinformation that has been directed at the Brazilian electoral system since 2018 and explore the court’s responses. First, we quantitatively analyzed 420 verification
articles from the TSE’s Fato ou Boato website to identify the falsehoods’ origins, targets, narratives, and deceptive strategies. Second, we conducted expert interviews and qualitatively examined official documents to explore counteraction strategies, particularly collaborations with fact-checkers. The findings indicate that disinformation primarily revolves around the alleged vulnerability of the electronic voting system (25%) and supposed illegal actions that have been committed by the TSE (15%). Supreme Federal
Court ministers, notably Luís Barroso and Alexandre de Moraes, have become frequent targets. Assaults on the TSE surged from 15% (2018) to 27% (2022). Strengthened collaboration with fact-checkers enhances their societal recognition and significance in the Brazilian public sphere.

2024, Journal of Pragmatics

Bilmes's work in the last decade of his career was primarily concerned with the approach he developed and called Occasioned Semantics. Bilmes based OS on Sacks' (1995) membership categorisation work together with components of taxonomical analysis derived from ethno-semantics. While the approach was primarily aimed at the field of Semantics, Bilmes also argued that OS offered a way to develop upon Sacks' work by situating categorial inferencing within ‘occasioned fields of meaning’ within which categorial definitions and descriptions evolve through a taxonomic branching texture. In this paper we explore the potential analytic intersection between aspects of Bilmes' OS and Sacks' category analysis together with later developments in Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA). In particular we revisit the ‘consistency rule’ together with ‘omni-relevance’, which provides a way of understanding shifts in fields of meaning as hierarchical and multi-layered. The combined approach allows to bring into view multi-layered sequential and categorial flow with taxonomic branching that takes place within an ongoing, unfolding and contingent interactional context of ‘who-we-are-and-what-we-are-doing’.

2024

His current research includes the sociology of geothermal energy systems and long-term ethnographies of brownfield revitalization.

2024, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

This study takes a praxiological perspective (drawing on ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis) to examine the working practices of food delivery service workers in China. The analysis explicates how delivery drivers deal with daily algorithm-generated information and contingencies through the production and mobilization of tacitly assumed conventions to maintain their flow of work. In other words, while the logic of the algorithm-generated information is a phenomenon exhibited in the app's delivery itinerary, actual delivery work is a reality on its own, not just a surrogate of a company's administrative designs. Three intertwined phenomena are identified: (1) coordinating pick up and deliveries involves a high degree of practical interactional work; (2) the job is practice oriented around routine contingencies of time, travel, and waiting, and (3), the job is collaborative and organized through a moral order that involves the mobilization of resources which operate alongside, but separate from the technology. The study shows how a detailed analysis of the lived work of couriers provides a powerful tool to highlight and examine what is often hidden (and lost) in studies of food delivery service.

2024, Discourse & Society

2024, Master's thesis

When it comes to teacher development, a sociocultural approach claims
that it is by participating in the social practices of learning and teaching
in particular classrooms and school situations that teacher learning takes
place (Johnson, 2009), this process being dependent on a variety of
aspects that revolve around the profession. Among them, textbooks and
teacher’s manuals stand out as teacher’s primary resources (Richards &
Farrell, 2011) as they are part of many institute’s curriculum. However,
it may be troublesome for novice teachers to make the most out of these
materials due to lack of experience and/or theoretical knowledge. In this
scenario, it is important for teachers to understand the aspects that lie
behind these resources in order to make informed decisions as regards
their use. With this in mind, drawing on Sociocultural Theory
(Vygotsky, 1978, 1987), the present study aims at investigating the
influence of interaction between teacher and a more experienced other
on the development of an English as a foreign language novice teacher,
vis-à vis the use of the textbook and the teacher’s manual. In order to do
so, 9 classes of an English as a foreign language novice teacher were
observed, being followed by mediator-mediatee interactions in which I
(a more expert other) inquired into the reasoning behind the teacher’s
choices when not following the manual. As classes and interactions
progressed, I attempted to provide responsive mediation to the teacher’s
maturing needs so as to allow her to revisit her practice and,
consequently, redefine her views of the aspects lying behind the manual.
Besides that, two questionnaires were applied to the teacher: the first
one, applied at the beginning of the semester, aimed at raising the
teacher’s perceptions of some aspects of the profession, while the other
one, which was applied at the end of the semester, aimed at
investigating possible reverberations of the mediator-mediatee
interactions. Results indicate that the teacher’s view of teaching has
moved from a grammar-oriented one to a communicative one, her
conceptualization of “focus on function” having developed due to the
mediator-mediatee interactions held with me, as both her practice and
speech reverberated such moments. The findings support Vygotsky’s
(1978, 1987) claim about the essential role of social interaction in
fostering human cognitive development, adding to the pool of research
in the area which advocates that a sociocultural approach has the
potential to positively (re)conceptualize teacher education.

2024, Journal of Pragmatics

Bilmes's (2011, 2022) work in the last decade of his career was primarily concerned with the approach he developed and called Occasioned Semantics, which he defines as "the study of structures of meaningful expressions in actual occasions of conversation" (Bilmes 2011: 129). Bilmes (2011) based OS on Sacks' (1995) membership categorisation work together with components of taxonomical and componential analysis derived from ethno-semantics. While the approach was primarily aimed at the field of Semantics Bilmes regarded his approach as developing upon Sacks' original category work and subsequent developments under the heading of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) (Hester and Eglin 1997, Bilmes 2021). In particular, Bilmes argued that OS offered a way to situate categorial inferencing within 'occasioned fields of meaning' within which categorial definitions and descriptions evolve through a taxonomic branching texture providing both an immediate and evolving context of members category work as the interaction unfolds. In this paper we explore the potentially fruitful intersection between the two approaches by drawing together 'fields of meaning' and 'omni-relevance' (Sacks 1992) to explore how members display an orientation to gestalt contextures within which members category work shifts and evolves as the interaction unfolds. Our aim is to examine how the two approaches can be drawn upon to mutually elaborate how categorial consistency is organised within a topical field of meaning that in turn operates within an ongoing, unfolding and contingent interactional context of who-we-are-and-what-weare-doing (Butler 2008, Authors 2009).

2024, Faculty of Education

Although internet chat is a significant aspect of many internet users' lives, the manner in which participants in quasi-synchronous chat situations orient to issues of social and moral order remains to be studied in depth. The research presented here is therefore at the forefront of a continually developing area of study. This work contributes new insights into how members construct and make accountable the social and moral orders of an adult-oriented Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel synchronous computer-mediated communication. viii ix TABLE OF CONTENTS

2024

2024, Language and Intercultural Communication

In this study the ethnomethodological method of membership categorisation analysis is applied to examine how members of an internationally dispersed team share cultural knowledge in their Skype™ chat conversations through mobilising categorisation as 'cultural knower' and 'not knower' for oneself and the others. Four recurring ways of sharing cultural knowledge were identified as the participants managed the distribution and completion of tasks, and attended to building mutual understanding in the unfolding interaction. The findings illustrate that cultural knowledge sharing is dynamic, situational and collaborative. Rather than hindering or enhancing interaction, culture is an interactional accomplishment with fluid referents, boundaries and membership. These observations problematise the predominant accounts of internationally dispersed teaming as either fraught with intercultural misunderstanding and conflict, or brimming with innovation and synergy.

2024

This series brings scholars of political comedy together in order to examine the effect of humor and comedy in a political way. The series has three main components. Political Comedy Encounters Neoliberalism aims to look at how comedy disrupts or reinforces dominant ideologies under neoliberalism, including but not limited to: forms of authority, epistemological certainties bred by market centrality, prospects for democratic thought and action, and the implications for civic participation. Political Comedy as Cultural Text examines the relationship between the more bizarre elements of contemporary politics and comedy, including but not limited to countersubversive narratives that challenge or reinforce anti-democratic political authority and market thought, radical social movements that seek to undermine it, and political comedy's relationship to the cultural unconscious. Lastly, the series welcomes proposals for scholarship that tracks the context in which comedy and politics interact. Political Comedy in Context follows the intersection of politics and comedy in viral, mediated, and affective environments.

2024

ideas fall into this noun class. Abstract ideas tend to begin with the letter ũ, as will be seen in the following examples. Thiriti ‘friendship’ is a special case, as according to our consultant it used to be spelled and pronounced ũthiriti in the singular, but over time the ũ was dropped. However, its remnants can still be seen in the plural, which is mothiriti (ma+ ũthiriti) as opposed to mathiriti, which would be expected if thiriti were the stem instead of ũthiriti. Some examples of nouns in this class are as follows: (76) thiriti, mothiriti Øthiriti maũthiriti NC14friendship NC6friendship ‘friendship, friendships’ Nouns and Noun Phrases 27 (77) wendi, mawendi Øwendi mawendi NC14wish NC6wish ‘wish, wishes’ (78) cukari, macukari Øcukari macukari NC14sugar NC6sugar ‘sugar, sugars’

2024, Managing Sport Business

Sport management research • Quantitative research • Qualitative research • Basic research • Applied research OBJECTIVES At the end of this chapter you should be able to: ■ Explain the evolution of sport management research; ■ Make a clear distinction between qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches to sport management; ■ Understand the difference between basic and applied research; ■ Explain the research process and how it can be applied to sport management research. KEY TERMS Applied research-a type of research that has direct value to practitioners but in which the researcher has limited control over the research setting. Basic research-a type of research that may have limited direct application but in which the researcher has careful control of the conditions. Paradigm-is a set of propositions that explain how the world is perceived; it contains a worldview, a way of breaking down the complexity of the real world, informing researchers and social scientists in general what is important, what is legitimate, and what is reasonable.

2024

Σε μία κοινωνία, που ήδη από το 1975 καθιέρωσε συνταγματικά την "Αρχή της Ισότητας των δύο φύλων", καλούμαστε να διερωτηθούμε σε τι βαθμό εμείς οι ίδιοι, ως άνθρωποι, γονείς ή εκπαιδευτικοί, αποδεχόμαστε και προωθούμε την ισότιμη και ολόπλευρη ανάπτυξη των μικρών παιδιών, χωρίς την παρέμβαση των έμφυλων στερεοτύπων στην καθημερινότητά τους. Πολυάριθμες ερευνητικές μελέτες αποτυπώνουν και καταδεικνύουν, σε μεγάλο βαθμό, τις βαθιά ριζωμένες αντιλήψεις, κοινωνικής προέλευσης και περιεχομένου, που ακολουθούν, τόσο τα αγόρια όσο και τα κορίτσια από τη στιγμή της γέννησής τους. Το χρώμα που κυριαρχεί στα βρεφικά τους ρούχα, το είδος των παιχνιδιών και των δραστηριοτήτων με τα οποία τα παρακινούμε να ασχοληθούν, ακόμα και οι αντιλήψεις που σχετίζονται με την ανάπτυξή τους (π.χ. τα αγόρια είναι συνήθως πιο ζωηρά από τα κορίτσια ή τα κορίτσια εξελίσσονται και ωριμάζουν πιο γρήγορα από τα αγόρια) μας ωθούν, ηθελημένα ή μη, στο να διαμορφώνουμε τις απόψεις τους σχετικά με τα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά και το ρόλο που, απαρέγκλιτα, διαδραματίζουν οι άντρες και οι γυναίκες στην κοινωνία, με αποτέλεσμα, όταν καλούνται να βγουν σε αυτήν, κάνοντας τη διαφορά, να συναντούν εμπόδια και διακρίσεις. Αυτό που, επί της ουσίας, οφείλουμε να καλλιεργήσουμε στα μικρά παιδιά είναι η πεποίθηση ότι δεν υπάρχουν μόνο το ροζ και το μπλε, τα αυτοκινητάκια και οι κούκλες, το ποδόσφαιρο και το μπαλέτο στη σύγχρονη κοινωνία που ζούμε. Αντιθέτως, υπάρχουν χρώματα, παιχνίδια και δραστηριότητες που απευθύνονται σε όλους και όλες. Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η διερεύνηση και ερμηνεία της διαιώνισης των έμφυλων στερεότυπων που κατακλύζουν τη ζωή μας, από τη στιγμή που καθορίζεται το φύλο μας, και η παρουσίαση στρατηγικών και προτάσεων για την κατάρριψή τους στο οικογενειακό και σχολικό περιβάλλον, δίνοντας έμφαση στην προσχολική ηλικία, όπου τίθενται καθοριστικές βάσεις για τις ιδέες, τις αντιλήψεις και τη συμπεριφορά των μικρών παιδιών.

Brooker, P.D., Engert, K., Hutchinson, P., Mair, M., Mlynář, J., Smith, P.V. & Sormani, S. (2023) Documentary Methods of Experimentation: A Tendentious Ethnomethodological Foray into Machine Writing using ChatGPT

2024, New Developments in Ethnomethodology, Gothenburg

Reworking Garfinkel's ethnomethodological studies of the documentary method of interpretation as heuristics for interactions with Generative AI, in this workshop we will engage in live experimentation with ChatGPT as a tendentious... more

2024, Revue interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques

Categories are the tools of systematic thinking. They enable us to organize our ideas, to draw analogies, and to make distinctions. In this respect categories are important in law because they are important in life. […] Legal rules not only prescribe results, but they also create (or recognize) the categories of conduct to which the rules apply. Without categories there could be no rules" Schauer, 1981, p.265. « Le droit est la manière dont l'Occident ordonne les règles qui s'imposent aux hommes » 1. Si cette citation capture certainement quelque chose de ce que John Austin appelait « le droit à proprement parler » 2 , on ne manquera en même temps pas de sourciller devant sa formulation généralisante et, pour ainsi dire, « naturaliste ». Le droit s'impose-t-il vraiment avec tant de naturel ? Les juristes raisonnent-ils juridiquement comme Monsieur Jourdain faisait de la prose, sans s'en rendre compte 3 ? Les concepts et catégories juridiques ne laissent d'intriguer le chercheur avide de comprendre comment ils sont concrètement compris et utilisés, par les professionnels chargés de les « appliquer » comme par les autres usagers qui y sont confrontés. A l'autre bout du spectre, les faits, « réalité tangible et matérielle » 4 , s'offrent-ils si aisément au praticien du droit ? Ne relèvent-ils pas toujours d'une forme de sélection et, partant, de construction ? 5 Le travail du professionnel du droit consiste souvent à relier ces deux entités, différentes par nature : le droit et ses catégories, formulés de manière générale et abstraite, et les faits, apparaissant comme des phénomènes singuliers et concrets. A travers ce dossier, nous tentons de comprendre l'alchimie qui fait tenir, dans une décision, faits et droit, et nous proposons d'interroger les processus ordinaires de catégorisation qui soutiennent le raisonnement pratique, aussi bien professionnel que profane, en contexte juridique. 1 A. Supiot, Homo juridicus. Essai sur la fonction anthropologique du droit, Points, p.85. 2 J. Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. 3 Plusieurs juristes en sont convaincus et partent de ce constat pour investiguer cet impensé-ou peu penséde la pratique juridique.

2024, Springer eBooks

She has written over 85 articles in journals and in edited volumes on issues such as education (including adult education), social development, social theorizing in relation to development, the facilitation of co-learning in group... more

2024

The article states about the study of onomastics field of a language, anthroponyms and their functions. The function of anthroponyms in discourse and the information that the personal name can carry. The factors that affect anthroponyms... more

2024, Springer Nature

An experimentation was carried out to understand the effect of fly ash as cement replacement material on corroded-reinforced concrete beams under the bending test. The beams were tested for corrosion levels of 0, 10, and 15%. An accelerated corrosion process is incorporated to corrode-reinforced concrete beam in the laboratory. Actual corrosion of transverse and longitudinal reinforcement in the beam was obtained by extracting reinforcement bars from concrete. Flexural strength and load-deflection relationships are studied for corroded-reinforced concrete beams. The corrosion resistance and measurement of degradation of steel are taken into account and compared by adding varying percentage of fly ash as partial replacement of the cement. During the study, fly ash variation of 0, 10, and 15% is considered, and load-deflection relationships are developed for corrosion resistance. It has been observed that corrosion resistance with 15% fly ash variation shows better results.

2024, International Journal of Culture and History

This paper examines the linguistic features of village names in Ngara district in Kagera region -Tanzania.Itspecifically discusses the meanings, and the morphological and phonological features of Ngara village names. The natives speak two related Bantu languages, namely Kishubi and Kihangaza.The study focuses on village names since they are part of the historical, cultural and linguistic heritage of the given society. Additionally, place names have meaning as argued by several scholars (Anindo, 2016; Buberwa, 2012; Kihara, 2020; Wanjiru-mwita & Giraut, 2020) that nearly all African place names have meanings. Despite having meanings, place names differ in the way they are formed in each society hence, language specific. This uniqueness raised the need to investigate Ngara village names to see what they mean and how they are formed. This is a qualitative paper which employs two theories namely, Frame theory by Fillmore (1985) to define concepts that guided the retrieval of meanings of...

2024, Human Studies

Drawing on drafts and other material from the Harvey Sacks archive this paper examines the development of one of the defining papers of Conversation Analysis, A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation (Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson 1974). The discussion examines four drafts of the paper along with correspondence between the authors and with William Bright the editor of the journal Language where it was published. The four drafts trace the development of the paper from a 13-page draft to the final 106-page final draft submitted to the journal. By exploring the drafts as they evolved the discussion highlights the development of the central ideas in the paper, the distinctive style of the paper as it is revised, the changes of authorship, and the role of the editor of Language, William Bright, in helping to shape the paper through his own detailed reviews.

2024

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2024

Je voudrais remercier toutes celles et tous ceux qui m'ont encouragé tout au long de ces années à avancer dans mes recherches et qui m'ont aidé à trouver au fil de ce parcours une cohérence à mon travail. Un grand merci à Martine Gross et à l'APGL (Association des Parents et des Futurs Parents Gay et Lesbiens) de Paris ainsi qu'à Max Nisol de l'association « Genres pluriels » et à touTEs les participantEs de l'atelier Drag King de Bruxelles pour m'avoir donné la possibilité de travailleur sur, pour, avec un « eux » qui est devenu progressivement un « nous ». Sans « vous », ce travail n'aurait jamais vu le jour. Merci à tou-te-s les étudiant-e-s que j'ai rencontré-e-s pendant ces années et qui m'ont fait comprendre par leurs questions et par leurs besoins qu'il fallait combler un vide dans l'espace académique français et que le champ des Gender and Language Studies méritait d'être investi par mon travail, par notre travail.

2024, Journal Européen des Urgences

2024, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Since Garfinkel's early work (2002) in the 1970s, few researchers have studied university classroom activities to understand what is seen as the performance features of university learning. The purpose of these studies was to explicate what it is that is unique to universities about these activities. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, HEIs have moved a lot of their teaching online, thus changing the nature of the classroom. The workplacespecific nature of the classroom has therefore changed to a virtual one, but the disciplinespecific nature of activities remains the same. For participants of these virtual classrooms to be acknowledged as vulgarly competent (Garfinkel 2002), there is a need for the activities to remain accountably recognisable to all parties. For the social order to be sustained and recognised, there is a need for this competence, but for many participants, students and lecturers alike, this was the first time of participating in their daily university activity in this virtual way. The participants may be entering the domain with a weak competence (Ikeya 2020) of the context, but with enough unique adequacy to sustain ongoing social order. This hybrid study draws on online lectures carried out in a business school, using ethnomethodological tools to understand the development of vulgar competence. 1 See Jim Dickinson, Wonkhe, The pandemic has decimated the university experience-how do we put that right? 25th February, 2021 Accessed https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-pandemic-has-decimated-the-university-experience-how-can-we-put-that-right/

2024, Linguagem Em Curso

A current longitudinal research project explores how meaning is constructed discursively in troubled talk between sufferers and professionals in various help sites (e.g., internet forums, the radio and the hotline). Espousing discourse-oriented functionalist approaches (i.e, institutional conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and narrative inquiry), the researchers show that troubled selves often construct their problems through stories as well as certain story-internal key figurative forms summarizing the main point of the problem. This project also shows that such narrative and figurative versions of the suffering self often enhance interpersonal communication. Espousing a discourse-oriented functionalist approach, and the Four World Model, the present study further explores troubled radio talk showing that in this public arena the effectiveness of organizing figurative language is often constrained by the ability of troubled selves to present media-worthy stories.

2024, Media, Policy and Interaction

The chapter focuses on stylistic methods on Belarusian national television, e.g. on the use of contrast, moral categories and editing, for the discursive production of political accountability and responsibility for national and... more

2024, Discourse Studies

This article introduces the special issue on questions, questioning, and institutional practices. We begin by considering how questioning as a discursive practice is a central vehicle for constructing social worlds and reflecting existing ones. Then we describe the different ways questions and question(ing) have been defined, typologized, and critiqued, in general and within seven institutions including policing, the courts, medicine, therapy, research interviews, education, and mediated political exchanges. The introduction concludes with a preview of the articles in the special issue.

2024, Applied Linguistics Review

Survey questionnaires are among the most widely-used research methods in applied linguistics, adopted for everything from large-scale quantitative studies measuring social-psychological variables to qualitative studies that solicit participant views on a range of different topics. Despite the variety of purposes that survey questionnaires are used for, the most common approaches to analysis of the data they yield involve content analysis using descriptive or inferential statistics and/or enumeration of emergent themes. The study reported in this article conceives of questionnaire data in notably different terms: as occasioned (conditionally-relevant responses sequentially-projected by a question), recipient-designed (devised for the research context and researcher), and thus, as thoroughly interactional phenomena (Drew 2006; Sacks 1992). The study examines the identity construction of French as a second language (FSL) teachers on a professional development sojourn in France, drawing...

2024, Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences

The bond properties of reinforcing steel bars embedded in structural concrete made with locally available natural lightweight aggregates, was studied using pull-out tests on cubic specimens of 150 Â 150 Â 150 mm. A series of 30 specimens were cast considering the effect of bar diameter, and concrete compressive strength. Test results showed that the load-slip behavior of the structural lightweight concretes (SLWCs) investigated compare reasonably well with the behavior of concretes reported in the literature, and is dependent upon the compressive strength, bar size and the embedded length. The bond strength of SLWCs increased with a higher concrete compression strength but decreased as the bar diameter was increased. Comparisons of measured bond strength with the ACI bond equations showed that for all cases the experimental bond strength values were higher than the design ones. However, the results indicate use of caution when applying bond formulas of normal weight concrete to lightweight concretes. Furthermore, this study has revealed that locally available natural lightweight aggregates could be considered as a promising, and cost effective material for designing reinforced concrete members.

2024, Qualitative Research

During the course of this article, we explore ethnomethodological principles in relation to approaching social media as data. More specifically, we consider the extent to which the work of Harvey Sacks and his rich intellectual legacy might inform this nascent field of empirical inquiry. This exploration is realised in the context of interdisciplinary research at the interface of social and computational science. Drawing from an extensive range of empirical projects into social media we reflect on the efficacy and limitations of these principles (Sacks, 1992) for understanding social media interaction as open data and practical action in the digital age.

2024, Nuba Mountains Language Studies

Tagoi, a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Rashad language group has a noun class system in which the majority of nouns are marked for number (singular and plural) by paired prefixes. Some nouns are marked by additional suffixes for plural. Stevenson (1956-57) identified eight noun classes for Tagoi using a Bantuist approach of classifying nouns in relation to their semantic correlations. Nouns with zero prefix and nouns whose agreement prefixes do not match the class prefix, however, are difficult to assign to the appropriate classes, and therefore are considered by Stevenson to be variants of other classes. The present paper, in the light of new data, reclassifies the Tagoi nouns using an alternative recent approach proposed by Corbett (1991: 45). It provides a method based on agreement evidence and following both semantic and morphological assignment rules. This method enables us to set out all nouns, including irregular nouns like zero prefix nouns and others, and to assign them to the appropriate classes.

2024, Engineering and Technology Journal

This research covers the use of cellular lightweight concrete waste as recycled coarse aggregates to produce lightweight concrete. Various volume fractions of coarse aggregate (35%, 50%, and 75%) were used. The specimens were tested for compressive strength and density at age of 28-days. The compressive strengths for the resulting lightweight concrete with a density of (2131, 1826 and 1630) kg/m 3 were (24, 22.6 and 11.5) MPa, respectively. In addition, silica fume was utilized as a constant replacement ratio 6% of cement weight for mixes lightweight aggregate to enhance the compressive strength of such concrete.

2024, Journal of Intercultural Communication

2024, Media International Australia

Talk between dual (or triple) host combinations dominates breakfast and drive programs. These programs are chat based, and incorporate talk on a range of topics conducted for an overhearing audience, including talkback segments that involve callers. This article considers the features of chat-based programming, and proposes a framework for analysis into talk-in-interaction on this format. Using ethnomethodological approaches-conversation and membership category analysis-as the basis for analysis, this article argues that in addition to the influence of the 'radio program', there are three membership category devices that influence host/host talk. These are 'telling stories', 'members of a team' and 'members of a community'. The ways in which hosts and callers orient to these have consequences that may lead to the overt or subtle exclusion, or otherwise, of members of the overhearing audience, and this approach encourages a systematic analysis of the type of community to which participants orient within particular program.

2024, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media

This article considers the differences between talk radio and chat-based radio as specific genres of radio programming in an attempt to address the very broad use of the term 'talk/talkback' radio in radio research. Chat-based programming is a term devised by Tolson in relation to television, but this article argues that the definition as applied to television is relevant to radio, particularly in a contemporary media environment where media boundaries are increasingly blurred. It examines the key concepts that define 'chat-based' programming as they apply to radio, which are an orientation to personal topics, the use of humour, and potential for transgression. The format is increasingly popular, particularly on commercial radio. This article investigates three key questions: (1) Is there a difference between chat-based and talk radio programming?; (2) Why does genre matter in radio studies?; and (3) What are the implications for defining an alternative genre of talk? It argues that talk radio and chat-based radio are distinct formats, but that chat-based programming can and does incorporate issue-based 'segments' to engage listeners. In arguing for the distinction, this article lays some foundations and raises questions for consideration in future analyses of radio talk.

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