TY - JOUR
T1 - Place and membership categorization in a Hawaiian language radio show
AU - Furukawa, Toshiaki
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that have helped improve the original manuscript. I would also like to acknowledge Larry Kimura, Laiana Wong, Lalepa Koga, Manak ? Tanaka, Kuʻuleilani Reyes, Gabriele Kasper, and Laurie Durand, who gave me feedback on earlier manuscripts and/or excerpts. I had a chance to present earlier versions of this paper at various seminars and conferences. My thanks go also to Maiko Doi, who served as a research assistant and produced the rough transcripts. All shortcomings are my own. This research was partially funded by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grant-in-Aid (Young Scientists (B), #25870409, Year 2013–2016).
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PY - 2019/10/22
Y1 - 2019/10/22
N2 - Recent articles by prominent scholars of discourse and interaction have renewed the debate over the relationship between membership categorization analysis (MCA) and conversation analysis (CA). Many consider CA and MCA as mutually informing, and that is the position I take in this paper. MCA has been conducted mainly with monolingual data, but in this study I examine Hawaiian language media talk by multilingual speakers. Place formulation is often intertwined with membership categorization, and I investigate how place is used to categorize people. Taking an MCA approach, I analyze the stories co-constructed by a radio show's host, guest, and callers, all of whom speak predominantly in Hawaiian but occasionally switch into English. The goals of the paper are twofold: (1) to illustrate the procedural consequentiality of initiating, maintaining, and terminating an “ultra-rich topic” (Sacks 1992:75), that is, place; and (2) to show how place is used to do categorial work.
AB - Recent articles by prominent scholars of discourse and interaction have renewed the debate over the relationship between membership categorization analysis (MCA) and conversation analysis (CA). Many consider CA and MCA as mutually informing, and that is the position I take in this paper. MCA has been conducted mainly with monolingual data, but in this study I examine Hawaiian language media talk by multilingual speakers. Place formulation is often intertwined with membership categorization, and I investigate how place is used to categorize people. Taking an MCA approach, I analyze the stories co-constructed by a radio show's host, guest, and callers, all of whom speak predominantly in Hawaiian but occasionally switch into English. The goals of the paper are twofold: (1) to illustrate the procedural consequentiality of initiating, maintaining, and terminating an “ultra-rich topic” (Sacks 1992:75), that is, place; and (2) to show how place is used to do categorial work.
KW - Hawaiian
KW - Media
KW - Membership categorization analysis (MCA)
KW - Place
KW - Radio show
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U2 - 10.1075/ps.18011.fur
DO - 10.1075/ps.18011.fur
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074262330
SN - 1878-9714
VL - 10
SP - 375
EP - 398
JO - Pragmatics and Society
JF - Pragmatics and Society
IS - 3
ER -