This narrative-based study employs membership categorization analysis to address the following question: How does a victim of abuse formulate and manage various categories and related descriptive details to story past trauma in ways that bring about new endings or insights in the present?… read more
This study of a bilingual (Japanese-English) research interview, taken from a project investigating language practices in intermarried (Japanese/non-Japanese) families, examines the impact of interviewer and interviewee’s differing, and sometimes competing, perspectives and agendas. Drawing on… read more
From a corpus of ‘troubles-tellings’ (Jefferson 1988) generated in qualitative research interviews with L2 (second language) English-speaking adult immigrants in the US and Canada, this case study examines how formulation and intensification, supported by various linguistic and paralinguistic… read more