Dennis Day
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Day |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Day |
| SIGNATURE | DAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9917-7986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conversation Analysis and Membership Categories
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 socie…
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems
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Membership categorization and storytelling
In this paper, we demonstrate how the collaborative and sequential unfolding of a story ties into the constitution of a membership categorization device which we have glossed as ‘us and them’. The data come from a focus group activity where first and second generation immigrants to Denmark have been asked to discuss their situation in Denmark. Using Ethnomethodological Conversation and Membership Categorization Analysis, we present one story whic…
Demonstrating and claiming competence in language
Positioning’ in the conversation analytic approach
From the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), the concept of positioning may offer a compellingly rich metaphor for understanding identity and relations. There appears, however, to be no such analytical concept in EM/CA. Instead, the EM/CA approach offers concepts such as alignment-affiliation, identities and membership categories — all of them based on actional resources on the micro-level of talk. The aim of this a…
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
In a bigger, messo, context
The forum
Persuasion and the concept of identification
(1960). Persuasion and the concept of identification. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 270-273
In a bigger, messo, context
Demonstrating and claiming competence in language
Positioning’ in the conversation analytic approach
From the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), the concept of positioning may offer a compellingly rich metaphor for understanding identity and relations. There appears, however, to be no such analytical concept in EM/CA. Instead, the EM/CA approach offers concepts such as alignment-affiliation, identities and membership categories — all of them based on actional resources on the micro-level of talk. The aim of this a…
Persuasion and the concept of identification
(1960). Persuasion and the concept of identification. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 270-273
Persuasion and the concept of identification
(1960). Persuasion and the concept of identification. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 270-273
The forum
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
In a bigger, messo, context
Positioning’ in the conversation analytic approach
From the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), the concept of positioning may offer a compellingly rich metaphor for understanding identity and relations. There appears, however, to be no such analytical concept in EM/CA. Instead, the EM/CA approach offers concepts such as alignment-affiliation, identities and membership categories — all of them based on actional resources on the micro-level of talk. The aim of this a…
Demonstrating and claiming competence in language
Membership categorization and storytelling
In this paper, we demonstrate how the collaborative and sequential unfolding of a story ties into the constitution of a membership categorization device which we have glossed as ‘us and them’. The data come from a focus group activity where first and second generation immigrants to Denmark have been asked to discuss their situation in Denmark. Using Ethnomethodological Conversation and Membership Categorization Analysis, we present one story whic…
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems
Preview this article: Tang’s Dilemma and other problems, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.4.3.02day-1.gif
Conversation Analysis and Membership Categories
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 socie…
Linguistics (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Conversation (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)