Hansen2005
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Hansen2005 |
| Author(s) | Alan D. Hansen |
| Title | A practical task: Ethnicity as a resource in social interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Membership Categorization Analysis, Ethnicity |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 38 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 63-104 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327973rlsi3801_3 |
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Abstract
Ethnicity has been treated historically in social sciences as a past-oriented feeling of "peoplehood." Despite seminal language and social interaction (LSI) scholarship that treats ethnicity as an ongoing, situated practical accomplishment (see Moerman, 1988; Wieder & Pratt, 1990), there is a paucity of scholarship that expressly considers how ethnicity is utilized by participants as a resource in conducting the business of, and in attending to myriad exigencies in, social interaction. In this analysis, which employs membership categorization analysis in examining a 19-min span of a public planning meeting, I show how ethnicity emerges in social interaction as a resource for participants in discussing the merits of a proposed charter school. Implications for ethnicity's place in LSI scholarship are discussed.
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