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Tweets important quotes from EMCA articles with photos I took/Lecture at Penn/PhD from U Hawaii SLS/Conversation Analysis/L2 Writing

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Dear #EMCA folks,

I’m a bit bored of just tweeting key extracts from EMCA articles, so I decided to tweet them with photos I took. I hope my tweets can help you refresh your memory, find inspiration for your research, and discover the beauty of the world around us.

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Attending #LANSI2025! Dr. Bolden’s plenary talk on correction was incredibly insightful and helpful — a perfect balance between foundational concepts and recent developments in the field. Feeling so lucky to be here. And this deviant case makeup pouch is just a cute bonus! #EMCA

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Bolden on correction and action #lansi2025 @RucalTeam @ISCAupdates

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Problem of overreliance on next-turn evidence: “participants can orient differently to the same compilation of practices of action on particular occasions of use. The exclusive reliance on next-turn evidence unilaterally prioritizes next-speakers’ (or next-actors’) orientations over those of all other interactants—especially current speakers—who are also participants with valid orientations.” (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 327) #EMCA

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Next-turn proof procedure: “While the next-turn proof procedure is extremely powerful, at best it hogs evidentiary attention and, at worst, it is mistakenly assumed to be CA’s only form of evidence.” (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 325) #EMCA

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Next-turn proof procedure: “next turns are the primary, initial resource: (1) through which next speakers index that, and how, they have understood the prior turn and its action(s) (i.e., next speakers are accountable for ‘correctly’ understanding social action; Robinson, 2016); and (2) that speakers other than next speakers (e.g., current speakers and other third parties) use to evaluate if, and how, next speakers understood the prior turn and its action(s). Next turns are therefore a powerful source of evidence for how participants understand prior turns, and thus focal actions.” (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 322) #EMCA

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Distal Evidence to construct claims about social actions: "In reality, focal behavior and its immediate sequential surroundings are commonly embedded in larger-order structures of interaction, such as activities and the overall structural organization of entire interactions (Robinson, 2013), as well as participants’ interactional histories that transcend current interactions (see, e.g., Beach, 2007; Button, 1991; Goodwin, 2001). As such, analysts should not lose sight of more distal evidence occurring before prior turn/sequence and/ or after fourth turn." (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 337) #EMCA

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Distal evidence to construct claims about social actions: “This (*focusing on evidence that is relatively adjacent to the focal action) has the unfortunate side effect of artificially both ‘flattening’ and decontextualizing the organization of conversation.” (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 337) #EMCA

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CA's emic approach to construct claims about social actions: “How are social actions accomplished by members ‘in such a way as to be recognizable as such to members’ (Sacks 1972b, p. 332; emphasis added) through the particulars of their joint-conduct in interaction.” (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 316) #EMCA

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An ‘emic’ approach: “seeing the situation as it is seen by the actor, observing what the actor takes into account, observing how [s/he] interprets what is taken into account” (Blumer, 1969, p. 56). #EMCA

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CA's emic approach to construct claims about social actions: "Conversation Analysis adopts a particular qualitative epistemology demanding that analysts’ claims about social actions be somehow oriented to by participants in interaction, thereby privileging meanings generated by and for natural community members (vs. analysts)." (Raymond & Robinson, 2024, p. 316) #EMCA

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Category-activity 'puzzles': "People can do particular actions by putting together (un)expected combinations such as ‘Killer Nuns!’; jokes are often built this way (e.g. ‘women drivers’); gendering is often marked this way (e.g. ‘male nurse’); social change becomes visible as such associations diminish, are replaced or deleted (Sacks, 1979)." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 281) #EMCA

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Five guiding principles for MCA: "5. Look for evidence that, and of how, recipients orient to the category, device or resonant description; for the interactional consequences of a category’s use; for co-occurring component features of categorial formulations; and for the way speakers within and between turns build and resist categorizations." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 280) #EMCA

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Five guiding principles for MCA: "4. Analyse the design and action orientation of the turn or text in which the category, device or resonant description appears." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 280) #EMCA

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Five guiding principles for MCA: "3. Locate the sequential position of each categorial instance with the ongoing interaction, or within the text." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 280) #EMCA

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Five guiding principles for MCA: "2. Build collections of explicit mentions of categories (e.g. man, human, boy- racer, anarchist, teacher, Australian, pianist, prostitute, lesbian, etc.); membership categorization devices (e.g. 'occupation', 'parties to a crime', 'stage of life', 'sex', 'family', etc.); and category-resonant descriptions (e.g. the descriptions 'she's eighty-nine years old' and 'don't be so testosterony' do not mention categories explicitly but are attributes that 'convey the sense . . . of being deployed as categories'; Schegloff, 2007a: 480)." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 280) #EMCA

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Five guiding principles for MCA: "1. Collect data across different sorts of domestic and institutional settings; collect both interactional and textual materials depending on the focus of the study. Data collection may be purposive (e.g. gathering together instances of particular categories in use because of an a priori interest in that category) or unmotivated (e.g. noticing a category’s use and pursuing it within and across multiple discourse sites)" (Stokoe, 2012, p. 280) #EMCA

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Combining MCA with CA’s sequential analysis (sequential MCA): "It takes up Sacks’s (often idiosyncratic) observations about membership categories and shows how to track categorial concerns in the same way that CA has pursued sequential practices." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 279) #EMCA

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Potential/significance of MCA: "a reinvigorated focus on MCA will protect and maintain some of its most exciting aspects, such as the analysis of constructed reality; of culture, identity and morality; of inference and meaning; of the analysis of interactional and textual materials, and its ethnomethodological spirit." (Stokoe, 2012, p. 279) #EMCA

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Precautions for using MCA: "MCA should thus not be thought of as, for example a theory of social categorization that is applied to some empirical materials to test its predictability, but rather as the explication of people’s own resources for social life." (Day, 2013, p. 1050) #EMCA

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Precautions for using MCA: "It is important to point out, however, that with the moral or normative implicativeness of both categories and category predicates, their applicability is always bound to concrete situations of categorization and should not be thought of as “context-free” properties of linguistic expressions." (Day, 2013, p. 1052) #EMCA