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Stephen Hester & Peter Eglin (eds.), Culture in action: Studies in membership categorization analysis. Washington, DC: International Institute for Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis and University Press of America, 1997. Pp. viii, 193. Hb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

Andrew L. Roth  and
Elizabeth A. Boyd
Andrew L. Roth
Affiliation:
121 Player Court, No. 4, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Elizabeth A. Boyd
Affiliation:
Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Abstract

In the mid-1960s, the late sociologist Harvey Sacks initially developed the concept of “membership categorization devices” as a means of analyzing how people identify, describe, and refer to one another. In his now canonical treatment of a child's story, “The baby cried. The mommy picked it up,” Sacks (1972) explored the possibilities for formal analyses of references to and descriptions of persons, as implemented in written texts and talk-in-interaction.

Type
Book Review
Information
Language in Society , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 120 - 123
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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