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Towards understanding gender and talk-in-interaction

  • Ann Weatherall
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

Feminist language researchers typically assume that gender is relevant to any interaction. Conversation analysis offers an interesting challenge for feminists to show how and that the pervasiveness of gender is achieved in talk-in-interaction. The aim of this article is to make a step towards understanding the interactional mechanisms underling the omnirelevance of gender in daily life. The present study draws upon the practices and principles of conversation analysis, particularly the notions of repair and membership categorization devices, to examine recordings of children's interactions. Evidence that supports the claim that the organization of repair may be implicated in the (re)production of gender is presented.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 767-781

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Discourse and Society (Volume 13, Issue 6)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/11/2002

Publication status

Published - 01/11/2002

ISSN

0957-9265

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625990
  • Scopus: 0036402294

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