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Item The gendered production of food-related identities as interactional phenomena: an investigation of talk-in-interaction at the South African braai(2018) Lewis, IlseThis study explores the intersectional production of the social categories of gender and foodrelated identities, as they emerge as interactional phenomena. The dataset consists of approximately five hours of recorded participant interactions at a residential braai – a common social event in the lives of everyday South Africans. My analysis follows feminist conversation analytic principles, and demonstrates how participants establish and manage their food-related identities, as intersecting with gender, in interaction. It illustrates how various interactional strategies are employed toward managing potential incipient identity-related interactional conflict. This systematically results in the achievement of group solidarity, whilst steering the interaction away from confronting the wider-ranging ideological concerns that underpin this potential conflict in the first place. Thus, the wider political; environmental; and socioeconomic matters related to individual choices regarding food consumption, are effectively abandoned in interaction, and thus left uncontested. I conclude with a discussion regarding the implications of these findings for the everyday resistance of dominant cultural discourse, related to the gendered politics of food consumptionItem Extraordinary emergencies : reproducing the sacred child in institutional interaction.(2014-09-15) Rafaely, DaniellaThis research report examines telephonic and written data from an emergency medical services centre in the Western Cape and seeks to uncover the language practices that speakers use in order to create what I term “extraordinary emergencies”. Since one of the overarching institutional aims of the emergency call centre is that of “preservation of life”, the majority of emergencies are reproduced by emergency call-takers as routine events, specifically for the purpose of managing them most efficiently and thus working towards the institutional aim of preserving life. However, in certain instances, this institutional agenda is temporarily halted or abandoned in favour of a competing agenda, what I have termed the “personal” agenda enacted by the speaker. This personal agenda works to the reproduction of particular norms and values, and speakers are seen as morally accountable for reproducing them. This research report makes use of discursive analytic practices, specifically conversation analysis, as a method by which to highlight subtle and delicate moments in the interaction that recreate the shared value of the “sacred child” in real-time interaction. Keywords: emergency, childhood, sexual assault, conversation analysis, institutionsItem Co-constructing the "good mother" in doctor-mother-paediatric patient interactions.(2014-07-28) Harrison-Train, CandiceThis study employs conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorization analysis (MCA) in an exploration of the interactional organization of talk between doctors and the mothers (or the female guardians acting as “proxy mothers”) of HIV-positive child patients being treated at a paediatric hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa, in 2003. The analysis focuses on how the HIV paediatric consultation is co-constructed between the doctor and the mother/guardian, and how interactional choices on the part of the participants shape the course of the consultation. Specific attention is placed on how participants orient to, hear, respond to and coconstruct the category of “mother”, along with the emergent inferences of what constitutes “good mothering” in the context of pursuing the wellbeing of the HIV-positive child who - as it emerges in certain cases - has evidently been infected by the mother in the first instance. As its core focus, this study examines how orienting to “good mothering” is done - in a moment-bymoment, collaborative and co-constructed manner – in the immediate course of the doctor/mother/guardian consultation. This involves considering the interplay of shifts in orientations to “motherly responsibility” and “doctorly responsibility”, and how these shifts are collaboratively activated, negotiated and responded to, as the consultation proceeds.