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Stivers, Tanya; Sidnell, Jack

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“…CA focuses on understanding people's ordinary, everyday sense-making methods in interaction. Its primary analytic goals are to understand and describe ‘the intertwined construction of practices, actions, activities, and the overall structure of interactions’ (Stivers and Sidnell 2013: 2), drawing on a sophisticated apparatus that supports detailed scrutiny of a range of aspects of interaction, such as turn-taking, turn-design and the ways sequences unfold (Schegloff 2007; Sidnell and Stivers 2013).…”

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‘So long as there's hair there still’: displaying lack of interest as a practice for negotiating social norms of appearance for older women

Heinrichsmeier

2018

Ageing and Society

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Although women's appearance is theorised as being central to their identity and social currency, much prior research has argued that as women age, other aspects of their lives assume a higher priority than their appearance. Nevertheless, they continue to invest time in appearance practices. In undertaking these various appearance practices, older women have to negotiate a range of conflicting social norms of age-appropriate appearance, such as managing the balancing act between ‘letting themselves go’, on the one hand, and looking like ‘mutton dressed as lamb’, on the other. This paper contributes to the growing literature on older women's attitudes to their appearance and related practices. Drawing on data from a two-year research project in a hair-salon catering primarily for older clients, I examine the question of the importance to women of their appearance through the lens of their hair-care practices. Focusing on a group of nine female clients aged 55–90 in a small hair-salon in southern England, I show how participants in their talk and embodied presentation display shifting orientations of investment/interest (or lack of interest) in their appearance. Comparing participants’ appearance practices, with their talk in two sequential environments in which a possible interest in appearance is made particularly salient, I argue that these shifting orientations reveal participants’ subtle negotiation of competing social norms of appearance for older women.

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‘So long as there's hair there still’: displaying lack of interest as a practice for negotiating social norms of appearance for older women

Heinrichsmeier

2018

Ageing and Society

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“…The data were analyzed using CA (Stivers and Sidnell ). CA provides systematic conventions for analysing naturally occurring interaction on a turn‐by‐turn basis, with a focus on how turns‐at‐talk accomplish particular social actions (Sidnell and Stivers ).…”

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Parent‐directed commentaries during children's hearing habilitation appointments: a practice in family‐centred care

Ekberg

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Hickson

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Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…The analysis of the video data is conducted by examining the interactive process first as a whole. Then, the selected sequences are analyzed in a detail by utilizing techniques from multimodal conversation analysis (Mondada, 2016;Stivers & Sidnell, 2012;see also McKenzie, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%