Conversation and Gender

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Data and transcription......Page 13
1 An introduction to conversation and gender, Susan A. Speer and Elizabeth Stokoe......Page 17
Sex differences in language......Page 18
Constructing gender......Page 21
Conversation analytic research on gender......Page 24
What is conversation analysis?......Page 25
Conversation analysis and the relevance of gender......Page 26
Conversation analysis, gender and feminism......Page 29
Part I: Gender, person reference and self-categorization......Page 33
Part II: Gender, repair and recipient design......Page 35
Part III: Gender and action formation......Page 37
Part IV: Gender identities and membership categorization practices......Page 38
Implications and issues......Page 40
Conversation analysis, data and analysis......Page 41
The policy relevance of gender and conversation analysis......Page 42
Part I Gender, person reference and self-categorization......Page 45
Introduction......Page 47
A review of conversation analytic explication of self-reference......Page 48
Is there more to be said about uses of ‘I’?......Page 54
The gendered ‘I’......Page 55
Discussion......Page 60
Introduction......Page 64
Rebecca: ‘Woman’ and ‘schizophrenic’......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 78
Introduction......Page 80
Categorization and person reference......Page 81
Action relevance......Page 82
System relevance......Page 85
Gender categorization as a resource for recipient understanding......Page 87
Gender categorization as a resource for recipient production......Page 88
Gender: Unknown......Page 91
Avoiding pronouns......Page 92
Respecting non-binary genders......Page 93
Procedural consequentiality 2: The exploitation of gender’s omnipresence......Page 94
Conclusion: The omnirelevance of gender......Page 96
Appendix......Page 98
Part II Gender, repair and recipient design......Page 99
Language, gender and conversation analysis......Page 101
Conversation, repair and alternate person reference......Page 103
XY-formatted repairs......Page 106
Marked XY repairs......Page 112
X ‘or’ Y formatted repairs and non-repairs......Page 118
XY non-repairs: Intensifying, cumulating, specifying......Page 123
Concluding remarks......Page 125
Introduction......Page 128
The Data......Page 130
Routinization......Page 134
Recipient Design......Page 137
Designed for the recipient who needs to know (i.e., fi bromyalgia sufferers)......Page 138
Designed for the gender-appropriate recipient......Page 139
Variations in the prefatory material......Page 141
Variations in the signature formulation......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 149
Appendix......Page 150
Introduction: Lakoff, psychology and tag questions......Page 151
Some preliminaries......Page 152
Designing the recipient......Page 153
Tags in everyday conversation......Page 158
Tags on location......Page 162
‘It’s everything we’ve ever wanted.=isn’it.’......Page 163
‘I think you’ll get over it though won’t you’......Page 164
‘I thi(h)nk you’ll geddover it W :ON :’T you :,’......Page 165
Summary, thoughts and problems......Page 166
Part III Gender and action formation......Page 169
Introduction......Page 171
Materials and procedures......Page 174
Conversation analysis and the epistemics of self-praise......Page 176
Reporting the compliment of a third party......Page 182
Evidence from conversation......Page 183
Evidence from the Gender Identity Clinic......Page 188
Evidence from a research interview......Page 190
Participants’ orientations to the norm against overt self-praise......Page 193
Discussion......Page 195
Introduction......Page 199
The setting......Page 200
The sequential context of the utterance ‘D’you understand that honey?’......Page 202
The ‘punchline’......Page 205
Laughter, body and participation in the reception of the joke......Page 206
Understanding displays and their pursuit......Page 211
Equivocal participation......Page 214
‘D’you understand that honey?’......Page 218
The separate cultures model of gender: An invokable participants’ model?......Page 223
Conclusion......Page 224
Introduction......Page 226
Brief examination of a ‘gendered’ and expanded affi liation sequence......Page 228
Invitations and declinations across three contiguous ‘cigarette’ stories......Page 229
Dad’s initial reporting: ‘>Jesus Christ ya forgot my cigarettes.<’......Page 230
The subordination of gender to other primary social activities......Page 232
Son’s fi rst retelling: ‘given ’em hell’......Page 233
Pivotal moments: The initial acceptance/ declination of a playful impropriety......Page 238
Two contrasting instances: Playful expansions of objectifying talk......Page 239
Discussion......Page 242
Part IV Gender identities and membership categorization practices......Page 245
Introduction......Page 247
\'This is Charlotte’: Proffering an identity......Page 248
Epistemic management......Page 252
Referring to and addressing Charlotte......Page 256
Gender reference and categorization......Page 260
Closing comments......Page 264
Introduction......Page 266
Studying children’s person formulations......Page 267
Ethnographic background: An implicit hetero-normative social order......Page 269
‘Girl’ and ‘boy’ as terms of reference in comparison sequences......Page 271
Borderwork, power and the collaborative construction of gendered oppositional groups......Page 273
Gender in disputes over rights and justifi cations......Page 276
‘Girl’ as an epithet or stance carrier during confl ict talk......Page 279
‘Girl’ as an intensifier in an assessment sequence......Page 282
Discussion......Page 284
Appendix......Page 287
Introduction......Page 288
Analytical approach......Page 289
Talk in mediation......Page 291
Data......Page 293
Being there for the children......Page 294
Gendered family roles and ‘being there’ for the children......Page 298
Gendered spousal roles......Page 302
Conclusions......Page 307
Introduction......Page 310
Children, social interaction and gender......Page 311
Studying gender as a members’ accomplishment......Page 313
Gender and the practicalities of managing participation in play......Page 314
Discussion......Page 323
References......Page 326
Author index......Page 352
Subject index......Page 357