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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Main Author: Seul ki Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2013-05-01
Series:Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/SALT/article/view/1348
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-40618431692f45898b739074774b669c2022-12-22T02:45:18ZengColumbia University LibrariesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL2689-193X2013-05-0113110.7916/salt.v13i1.1348A Case of Membership Categorization: The ‘Korean Male’Seul ki ParkStudies 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.https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/SALT/article/view/1348
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