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Category Terms as Story-Telling Shortcuts
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In: Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 46-48 (2015) (2015)
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Abstract:
Following Stokoe (2012), who grounded her study of membership categorization practices in the analysis of particular sequences of interaction, such as advice-giving, I will examine how participants invoke and orient to categories in story-telling episodes. Because category terms are inherently inference-rich (Schegloff, 2007), I argue that they may serve as a powerful resource for story-tellers: By invoking particular categories, a speaker can prompt a listener to make inferences that facilitate the telling of the story, obviating the need for certain accounts and explanations. I will analyze two extracts from a Skype phone conversation in which one female friend shares stories about her apartment-hunting experience with another female friend. I suggest that evidence for categorization work in these extracts may be found both in what the participants say and in what they do not have to say.
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Keyword:
Applied linguistics; Categorization; Education; English language; Language acquisition; Linguistics; P118-118.7; PE1-3729; Psychology; Storytelling
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/601e09352f454fdaba0188c72b4c92e7
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MP5FWF
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