Moving Forward by Doing Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Kevin A
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-09T12:05:59Z
dc.date.available2015-06-09T12:05:59Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentPsychology
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I address some of the issues for the analysis of categorial features of talk and texts raised by Stokoe’s ‘Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis.’ I begin by discussing a number of points raised by Stokoe, relating to previous conversation analytic work that has addressed categorial matters; the implicit distinction in her paper between ‘natural’ and ‘contrived’ data; and ambiguity with respect to the (possible) relevance of categories in particular practices or utterances. I then discuss how my own previous work could be located in light of Stokoe’s discussion of debates and divergences between CA and MCA, and argue that being bound by the integrity of the data on which an analysis is based (Schegloff, 2005) should take precedence over attempting to characterize the analysis as exemplifying either a CA- or MCA-based approach. I conclude by calling for a commitment to doing analysis, and pointing to the value of the resources Stokoe offers in this regard.en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationWhitehead, K. A. (2012). Moving forward by doing analysis. Discourse Studies, 14(3), 337-343.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1461-4456
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/17958
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSageen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectMembership categorization analysisen_ZA
dc.subjectConversation analysis
dc.subjectAction
dc.subjectSequence
dc.titleMoving Forward by Doing Analysisen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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