Lee2023
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Yeji Lee, Jakub Mlynář |
| Title | “For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Ethnomethodology, Classroom discourse, Exemplification, Social interaction |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Human Studies |
| Volume | 46 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 607–633 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10746-023-09665-7 |
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Abstract
Members in society make ubiquitous use of examples as a resource to engage in their everyday and specialized activities. This paper takes the resourcefulness of exemplification as a topic of inquiry by focusing on the formulative phrase “for example,” investigating its interactional work within the analytic framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The data used consists of 11 h of video-recordings of English as a Foreign Language classroom lessons over a semester. We conceptualize exemplification as a holistic configuration (gestalt) where its work consists in the production and recognition of a pair, namely the exemplifying component and the exemplified component. We demonstrate how the teacher and students position the formulative phrase as a recognizable practice for the organization of two distinct actions: accounting for one’s opinion and confirming an understanding. Our findings also present the different forms of exemplification, including elaborate narrative constructions, single terms or phrases, and specimen performances.
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