A Case of Membership Categorization: The ‘Korean Male’
Studies employing MCA often explore how people claim membership or non-membership in specific categories. Bateman (2012), for example, examines children’s use of collective pro-terms in establishing and protecting exclusive dyadic friendships. Lerner and Kitzinger (2007), focusing on repair of self-...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/SALT/article/view/1348 |
| Summary: | Studies employing MCA often explore how people claim membership or non-membership in specific categories. Bateman (2012), for example, examines children’s use of collective pro-terms in establishing and protecting exclusive dyadic friendships. Lerner and Kitzinger (2007), focusing on repair of self-references, found that speakers switched the reference form from individual (e.g., ‘I’) to collective (e.g., ‘we’) when aggregating themselves to the collectivity; they changed the reference form from collective to individual when extracting themselves from the collectivity.
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| ISSN: | 2689-193X |