From lifeguard to bitch: How a story character becomes a promiscuous category in a couple’s video call
The Australian Journal of Communication(2013)
摘要
This paper concerns a single case of story telling between a long-distance couple via video chat. Our interest is on how a character’s relevance to the story is rendered uncertain by the teller, but how this uncertainty provides an avenue for the relevance of the character to be recast by the recipient. Using Membership Category Analysis and Sacks’ work on story telling and omnirelevance we examine the evolution of the character in the story while also tracing the way the character is treated by the recipient. Our analysis highlights both the way categories can be withheld from devices for effect and also the way unfixed categories can become ‘promiscuous’ in the sense that they are free roaming and available to be allocated to other devices. In doing this we respecify the ‘problem of promiscuous category analysis’ as a members phenomena.
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interpersonal communication,video conferencing
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