Smokers' talk : using Membership Categorisation Analysis to look at smokers' talk
This thesis represents an exploration of smokersâ talk taking an ethnomethodologically- inspired conversation analysis approach to the data, with a specific focus on Membership Categorisation Analysis. Recent MCA research has revealed the unique insight that the approach offers to analysts interested in the study of everyday interaction and how individuals produce themselves as âcertain types of peopleâ in the context of their routine encounters. The analysis of categories as a product of talk offers an alternative way of viewing categories that is empirically grounded in routine talk-in-interaction, as an accomplishment of the participants. The research presented here examines the demonstrable relevance of the category âsmokerâ for participants in their categorisation of themselves and others and reveals both the situated nature of this category work and the implicit normative assumptions relating to the activity of smoking that speakers draw on as they negotiate, accept or reject category incumbency. The research presented here thus examines smokersâ talk in order to bring to light taken-for-granted membersâ knowledge of smokers and smoking as a sociological phenomenon. In doing so, it also
Burke, Grace
Smokers' talk : using Membership Categorisation Analysis to look at smokers' talk. This thesis represents an exploration of smokersâ talk taking an ethnomethodologically- inspired conversation analysis approach to the data, with a specific focus on Membership Categorisation Analysis. Recent MCA research has revealed the unique insight that the approach offers to analysts interested in the study of everyday interaction and how individuals produce themselves as âcertain types of peopleâ in the context of their routine encounters. The analysis of categories as a product of talk offers an alternative way of viewing categories that is empirically grounded in routine talk-in-interaction, as an accomplishment of the participants. The research presented here examines the demonstrable relevance of the category âsmokerâ for participants in their categorisation of themselves and others and reveals both the situated nature of this category work and the implicit normative assumptions relating to the activity of smoking that speakers draw on as they negotiate, accept or reject category incumbency. The research presented here thus examines smokersâ talk in order to bring to light taken-for-granted membersâ knowledge of smokers and smoking as a sociological phenomenon. In doing so, it also
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