Susanne Kjaerbeck
List of John Benjamins publications for which Susanne Kjaerbeck plays a role.
2020 Communicative problems in Boeing’s advertisement campaign for the combat aircraft Super Hornet Pragmatics and Society 11:3, pp. 391–414 | Article
This article focuses on an advertisement campaign run in Danish national newspapers promoting Boeing’s combat aircraft F 18 Super Hornet. The campaign received extensive media attention due to its scale and unconventional methods. On the basis of pragmatic text analysis we describe three features… read more
2019 Membership categorization and storytelling: The cake story Categorization in multilingual storytelling, Prior, Matthew T. and Steven Talmy (eds.), pp. 359–374 | Article
In this paper, we demonstrate how the collaborative and sequential unfolding of a story ties into the constitution of a membership categorization device which we have glossed as ‘us and them’. The data come from a focus group activity where first and second generation immigrants to Denmark have… read more
2013 ‘Positioning’ in the conversation analytic approach Narrative Inquiry 23:1, pp. 16–39 | Article
From the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), the concept of positioning may offer a compellingly rich metaphor for understanding identity and relations. There appears, however, to be no such analytical concept in EM/CA. Instead, the EM/CA approach offers concepts such… read more
2012 Treating student contributions as displays of understanding in group supervision Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction, Rasmussen, Gitte, Catherine E. Brouwer and Dennis Day (eds.), pp. 67–88 | Article
The analyses this paper reports come from ongoing research into the interactive establishment of local social order in a university setting. Our data are from a collection of video recordings of a particular sort of activity in the setting, namely ‘group supervision’. We are interested in a… read more
2005 Negotiating meaning in narratives: An investigation of the interactional construction of the punchline and the post punchline sequences Narrative Inquiry 15:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
In this article we focus on the negotiation of meaning in narratives. One crucial place for the negotiation of meaning in narratives is its punchline and the sequence it precedes, the post punchline sequence. We will study in detail the interactional construction of the punchline and of the post… read more