Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology

The second edition of Rosina Lippi-Green's book, English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States, continues the conversation from her 1997 first edition regardin...

English with an accent: language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States

语用学新解 : [英文版] = Understanding Pragmatics

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The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

This article examines the relationship between whiteness and communication through analysing how white business community members acknowledge their own, usually invisible, white identity. Discourse...

“Who’s the face?”: communication and white identity in a Texas business community

This study analyzes interactions among members of a South Asian Club (SAC) at an American university to illustrate how members construct a common Indian-American identity despite observable in-group differences. Members of this second-generation group differentiate themselves from White Americans and from natives of India, orienting to notions of both American model minority status and American youth culture and using humor as a strategy to downplay intra-Indian differences among themselves. While members of this student association succeed in achieving proud Indian-American youth identities – cool, socially mobile, and with cultural ties to another country – they unwittingly reinforce hegemonic racial structures in the United States. While ‘Indian-American’ is a positive identity for these students, it is also a racially marked identity that necessarily, however unintentionally, excludes them from the unmarked privileges of Whiteness.

‘Yo, it’s IST yo’: The discursive construction of an Indian American youth identity in a South Asian student club

This paper examines the relationship between communication and cross-cultural adaptation through conducting a membership categorization analysis of interactions among members of an Asian American Chamber of Commerce (AACC). Analysis of audio-and-video-recorded data gathered during ethnographic fieldwork illustrates how immigrant AACC members adapt to US notions of race through adopting the “Asian” racial category yet define “Asian” in creative ways that meet institutional goals. AACC members also resist US essentialist racial ideology through identifying with ethnic categories that help members meet situated institutional goals. Overall, this paper highlights how members routinely switch among racial, ethnic, and professional identity categories when navigating structural constraints of racial ideology during cross-cultural adaptation in institutional contexts.

“There’s no such thing as Asian”: A membership categorization analysis of cross-cultural adaptation in an Asian American business community

\n This article addresses relationships between micro and macro aspects of language use through analyzing online interactions among neighbors discussing racism in their neighborhood. Membership categorization analysis supplemented with critical theory highlights how the ways neighbors name, characterize, and position categories orients to their rhetorical and identity goals (to construct reasonable stances, to seem not racist), which in turn motivates alignment with critical, folk, or colorblind ideologies of racism. Thus, ideologies do not determine interactional choices participants make, but rather are constituted by those choices. Findings also illustrate how discursive strategies such as reported speech, absurdity, three-part lists, and metadiscourse support ways that neighbors organize categories and achieve their aims. Additional contributions to this study include demonstrating the utility of membership categorization analysis for analyzing discourses of racism and providing practical insight into how racially diverse groups can have productive conversations about racism. (Racism, ideology, membership categorization analysis)*

Natasha Shrikant

Papers

“Who’s the face?”: communication and white identity in a Texas business community

‘Yo, it’s IST yo’: The discursive construction of an Indian American youth identity in a South Asian student club

“There’s no such thing as Asian”: A membership categorization analysis of cross-cultural adaptation in an Asian American business community

Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors

Taking a detour before answering the question: Turn-initial okay in second position in English interaction