JĘZYK W POZNANIU Ogólnopolska Studencka Językoznawcza Konferencja Naukowa
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Bartłomiej Kruk (Poznań)

Commonsensical knowledge in talk-in-interaction? The synergy of conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis

This paper constitutes a contribution to the recent revival of interest in membership categorization analysis (henceforth MCA; Stokoe 2012), and its integration with conversation analysis (henceforth CA) described as one of the "most vibrant areas in contemporary conversation analysis" (Wilkinson and Kitzinger 2008: 565). Although both of these approaches originated from ethnomethodological tradition (Garfinkel 1967; cf. Sacks 1992), they have developed along divergent trajectories. CA, as a nose-to-data qualitative method looking into the sequential organization of talk-in-interaction, has never considered distal interactional context and the commonsense workings of society (Fitzgerald et al. 2009), the very analytic focus of MCA.
Drawing on written and spoken data from various interactional settings, especially computer-mediated interactions unfolding in online support groups and open-ended ethnographic interviews, this study seeks to illuminate how MCA may enrich a micro-level analysis of textual or interactional data informed by the methods and insights of CA. The analysis thus shows how interactants invoke, produce, sustain and work through commonsensical knowledge about categories such as gender and family whereby they assemble these categories, their predicates and activities in the sequential organization of talk. The exemplar analyses also reveal how these situated categorical practices of social actors provide a more nuanced understanding of the ongoing talk, which offers insights into the production and maintenance of the social and moral order as part of these individuals' interactional business as well as insights into culture, society and reality.



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