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- Evaldsson, Ann-Carita
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Accounting for friendship : Moral ordering and category membership in preadolescent girls' relational talk
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 40:4, s. 377-404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I explore how preadolescent girls, with low-income and multiethnic backgrounds, negotiate social and moral norms of conduct and accomplish the local social organization of the group over time. The girls were audio recorded as part of fieldwork in an elementary school in Sweden. The analysis combines conversation analytic examination of talk-in-interaction and ethnomethodological concerns for members' understanding of social categories. As demonstrated, the girls deploy diverse forms of collaborative judgmental work (complaints, accounts, membership categorization work, etc.) to describe coparticipants as good versus bad friends. Resistance (denials, justifications, recycling, substitutions, counteraccusations) to category ascriptions solidified negative category membership (of a bad friend) and eventually cast a girl as friendless. The detailed analysis demonstrates that the girls provide their own rendering of the seemingly neutral (and romanticized) activity of relational talk, thereby transforming it into an activity for indexing inappropriate behaviors, strengthening social relations of power, and justifying social exclusion.
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- Lindström, Anna, 1961-, et al.
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Assessments in social interaction : introduction to special issue
- 2009
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - Philadelphia, PA : Routledge. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 42:4, s. 299-308
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue is focused on the multimodal sequential analysis of assessments in a variety of social contexts. It aims at contributing to the study of asssessments by taking into consideration their role within the overall organization of activities, being sensitive to the peculiar contexts, both ordinary and professional, in which they can be observed, which may display a variety of sequential formats, mobilizing both linguistic and multimodal resources. In the following we will provide a theoretical overview of key studies that have advanced our understanding of the social and sequential organizations of assessment, discuss the types of data privileged in prior research, and finally outline the contributions of the studies included in this special issue.
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- Lindström, Anna, et al.
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Good enough : low-grade assessments in caregiving situations
- 2009
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Ingår i: Research on Language and Social Interaction. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0835-1813 .- 1532-7973. ; 42:4, s. 309-328
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on prior research on how the sequential negotiation of upgrades and downgrades in the intensity of assessment terms are used to display agreement, make epistemic claims, or segment courses of action, this study explores low- and high-grade assessments in domiciliary elderly care in Denmark and Sweden. The data consist of video recordings of home visits where home help providers assist senior citizens with personal hygiene and domestic tasks. Low- and high-grade assessments are differentially distributed in this data. Low-grade assessments are routinely used to achieve closure of a practical task performed by the home helper on behalf of the senior citizen. High-grade assessments are rare, and they are specifically not used in sequences that target the services rendered by the home helper. Our analysis of assessments in sequences that achieve task closure reveals an interactional metric where ogood enougho rather than excellent (or awful) is oriented to as the benchmark for evaluation of task outcome. This finding contrasts with prior research on ordinary conversation, which has shown that assessments tend to be upgraded in intensity over the course of the sequence.
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