Abstract
From the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), the concept of positioning may offer a compellingly rich metaphor for understanding identity and relations. There appears, however, to be no such analytical concept in EM/CA. Instead, the EM/CA approach offers concepts such as alignment-affiliation, identities and membership categories — all of them based on actional resources on the micro-level of talk. The aim of this article is to inquire if EM/CA tools for the analysis of identities and relations in talk might be considered interesting from the perspective of positioning theory. To do so, we offer EM/CA analyses of narrative and non-narrative data in which the in situ negotiation of identities and relations plays a major role.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Narrative Inquiry |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 16-39 |
ISSN | 1387-6740 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- affiliation
- conversation analysis
- identities in talk
- membership categorization
- narrative
- positioning