Conversation Analysis and Membership Categories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23754342
AutoresDennis Day (0000-0002-9917-7986, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Páginas1-5
Fecha de publicación2026-04-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaEncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0211
OpenAlexW1858071896
ISBN9781405198431
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas16

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