Category Construction and Orientation in Parent/Child Interaction

WANG Yafeng; YU Guodong

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110092

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WANG Yafeng, YU Guodong. Category Construction and Orientation in Parent/Child Interaction[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 39(3): 267-276. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110092

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WANG Yafeng, YU Guodong. Category Construction and Orientation in Parent/Child Interaction[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 39(3): 267-276. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110092

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Category Construction and Orientation in Parent/Child Interaction

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110092

WANG Yafeng¹,
YU Guodong²

1.
School of Foreign Languages, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
2.
College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

Received Date: 2022-11-22
Accepted Date: 2023-03-06
Publish Date: 2023-06-25

Abstract

Abstract

Parent/Child interaction as a type of talk-in-interaction is fundamentally a participant-produced interactive achievement. Taking video recordings and transcripts of parent/kid interactions from four families as its data, and integrating Conversation Analysis (CA) with Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA), we propose to understand categorisation as constructed by social actions. Data analyses show three relation pairs, namely, guardian/kid, friend/friend, and teacher/pupil, are co-constructed and oriented to by relevant parties with social actions executed at specific sequential positions by parents and children, evoking three different member categorisation devices. This research not only innovates MCA studies, but also showcases the necessity and possibility of integrating CA with MCA. Research findings have deepened our understanding of parent/child interaction and might be applied in social practice.
- parent/kind interaction,
- category pair,
- social action,
- conversation analysis,
- membership categorisation analysis

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