Hayashi2016
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Hayashi2016 |
| Author(s) | Reiko Hayashi |
| Title | Categorization in Talk: A Case Study of Taxonomies and Social Meaning |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, MCA, Categorization, Category as organization device, Color binary, Ethnomethodology, Race, Semiotic resources, Taxonomization, Taxonomy analysis |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Pragmatics |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 197-219 |
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| DOI | 10.1075/prag.26.2.02hay |
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Abstract
This article seeks to advance the usage-based discourse research that investigates meanings and processes of meaning construction in interaction by elaborating an empirically grounded interdisciplinary model. The paradigmatic and sequential analysis employed here brings together linguistic discourse analysis with an ethnomethodological perspective, and presents an innovative take on category organization in talk, explaining how to capture knowledge resources such as asymmetrical category contrast pairs in talk. In analyzing in detail the speaker’s taxonomy construction in a sample conversation, the paper systematically explores the following two topics related to the speaker: what category characteristic he is orienting to as a resource for his present talk and what social meaning the speaker’s taxonomizing is consistently communicating in the flow of talk. The proposed model captures a color binary—used to categorize people—of the ‘colored’ versus the ‘white’, entailed in the expression ‘a so-called yellow colored people’, and reveals that the category pair is used as an organizational device in the speaker’s argument.
The paper claims that taxonomy analysis in sequence is useful to examine the selected words in relation to their semiotic resources.
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