Conversation Analysis and Membership Categories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23754342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Day (0000-0002-9917-7986, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0211 |
| OpenAlex | W1858071896 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
Membership categorization analysis (MCA) deals primarily with the way we use categories to make sense of and for each other in social interaction. As such, it is one means of explicating the practically oriented, commonsensical, and cultural reasoning of people as they go about their social lives. In particular it focuses on the recognizability of people as certain sorts of people or, more specifically, people as certain sorts of members of society, and how this recognizability is a resource for members in their dealings with each other. And as one of the primary ways in which we “deal” with each other is through language, MCA is often brought to bear on the analysis of how people use language in situations of everyday life.
Categorization · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Epistemology · Everyday life · Linguistics · Resource (disambiguation) · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |