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Repair in membership categorization in French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2008

GENEVIÈVE MAHEUX-PELLETIER  and
ANDREA GOLATO
GENEVIÈVE MAHEUX-PELLETIER
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, 200 Old Arts Building, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaT6G 2E6, genevieve@ualberta.ca
ANDREA GOLATO*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2090 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, golato@illinois.edu
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Correspondence concerning this article should be sent to the second author.
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Abstract

Using conversation analysis as methodology, this article provides a link between the local organization of talk and larger societal issues by investigating specific conversational sequences in which French speakers from different speech communities interact. It is argued that in addition to dealing with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding, repair can simultaneously be used to negotiate linguistic membership. Repair can be used to establish, confirm, or insist on speakers' belonging to one particular speech community over another. Moreover, participants can use repair to express affiliation and disaffiliation with each other. The implications of this research are discussed, linking the organization of conversation with issues of language and identity, specifically with the social meaning of dialect variety in the Francophone world. Thus, this article demonstrates how phenomena commonly discussed on the macro level are realized and negotiated on the micro level.

Keywords

conversation analysisrepaircross-linguistic analysismembership categorizationidentityvarieties of French
Type
Research Article
Information
Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , November 2008 , pp. 689 - 712
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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