“You're all a bunch of feminists:” Categorization and the politics of terror in the Montreal Massacre

Eglin, Peter; Hester, Stephen

doi:10.1023/a:1005444602547

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“…CA works principally 1 across large conversational data corpora to identify, cumulatively, robust structural patterns in turn-taking, repair, sequence organization, and action formation. In contrast, MCA mainly produces case studies of distinct interactional and textual settings, focusing on turn-generated 'identities-for-interaction', morality, culture and other categorial matters (e.g., Eglin & Hester, 1999;Housley & Fitzgerald, 2007;Plunkett, 2009;Summerfield & McHoul, 2005).…”

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Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

2012

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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.

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Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

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“…Although sequentiality is regarded as fundamental to the analysis of interaction, less attention has been paid to categories in the development of CA (Mä kitalo and Säljö , 2002; Watson, 1997). CA studies focus almost exclusively on the analysis of mundane and institutional talk, whereas MCA has been used to examine a wider range of discourse types including newspaper articles, documents and interview data (e.g., Baker, 1997;Eglin and Hester, 1999;Nilan, 1995;Rapley et al ., 2003) in addition to conversational data. Finally, in Schegloff's (1992b) introduction to Sacks' lectures, he is somewhat sceptical of MCA's utility, arguing that it is fraught with potential for 'wild' and 'promiscuous' analysis, in which the interpretations of the analyst might prevail over the evidence in the talk (the 'problem of relevance' issue discussed earlier).…”

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Gender and discourse, gender and categorization: current developments in language and gender research

Stokoe

2004

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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“…See Rapley et al (2003) for another case involving news reportage and killing. See Eglin & Hester (1999a, 1999b) for a similar case. vi Naturally, the other way of putting this would be to class "kill" (let alone "murder") as a dysphemism.…”

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‘Killers’ and ‘Friendlies’: NamesCanHurt Me

McHoul¹

2007

Social Identities

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This paper concerns an incident in 2003 when two American fighter pilots mistakenly fired on a 'friendly' British convoy and on the reportage of that incident in the British press some four years later. It starts with a focus on the designation of the airmen as 'killer pilots' (by The Sun newspaper which broke the story), using some concepts from membership categorisation analysis as developed by Harvey Sacks. It is contended that such an approach can afford insights into the nature of quite specific social identites. Hence the paper goes on (via the transcript of the air-to-ground tape) to contrast how the press ascribes identities to the pilots with how they avow identities for themselves. This contrast, I argue, gives us some insights into the moral culpability or otherwise of the 'killer pilots'.

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“You're all a bunch of feminists:” Categorization and the politics of terror in the Montreal Massacre

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis

Gender and discourse, gender and categorization: current developments in language and gender research

‘Killers’ and ‘Friendlies’: NamesCanHurt Me

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