Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis
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Charalambidou, A. 2019. Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences. 5 (s2). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0025
Type | Article |
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Title | Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis |
Authors | Charalambidou, A. |
Abstract | This paper examines the use of self-repairs in ascribing old-age categorisations to self and others in casual interactions among friends. Membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis are employed to analyse self-recorded, everyday conversations of a group of older Greek Cypriot women with a long interactional history. The interactional organisation of old-age labels, and specifically instances of self-repair of age categorisations, reveal that members orient to old-age categories as hierarchically positioned and inference-rich. Members make relevant a very intricate set of expectations of who can be categorised by whom, with what specific age category term and at which context, partly because other-categorisations can also implicate one’s self-categorisation as old. Sequential and categorisation analyses provide a powerful analytical toolkit for the investigation of participants’ local system of self- and other-ascription of explicit -but also implicit- age identities. It is shown that the combination of membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis can be extended beyond the analysis of turn-generating categories and can be instrumental in analysing flexible, context-shaped and agentively managed category identifications that also have currency beyond the local interactional occasion. |
Keywords | Language and aging; membership categorisation; conversation analysis; repairs; age identities; Cypriot Greek |
Research Group | English Language and Literature |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Journal | Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences |
ISSN | 2199-174X |
Electronic | 2199-174X |
Publication dates | |
Online | 22 Jun 2019 |
22 Jun 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 14 May 2019 |
Accepted | 07 Jan 2019 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by De Gruyter in Linguistics Vanguard. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0025 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0025 |
Language | English |
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