Papers by Jack B Joyce
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the practical, ethical and episte... more Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis (CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and moreover works at a level of detail that presents challenges for assumptions about participant anonymity. Nonetheless, data sharing occupies a central position in both the methodology and the wider academic culture of CA as a discipline and a community. Despite this, CA has largely been ignored in qualitative data sharing debates and discussions. We argue that the methodological traditions of CA present a strong case for the value of qualitative data sharing and offer open data sharing practices that might be usefully adopted in other qualitative approaches.
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Discourse Studies
When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, the... more When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, they seek to cast the other as the aggressor or party at fault, and otherwise exert social control. This article illustrates how members work to hamper challenges, evade control or avoid being negatively characterized by systematically blocking access to a turn in the third position and stopping their opponent’s agenda. Examining 100 hours of public disputes (public transport, protestor interactions and radio call-ins) in varieties of English, I use membership categorization analysis and conversation analysis to unpack resistance as part of the structural organization of disputes. I identify two methods of resisting an agenda: (1) passively, whereby a responsive turn stalls the progressivity of the interaction, and (2) actively, whereby a responsive turn disaligns to outrightly suspend the progressivity of the interaction. I discuss how resistance sequentially unfolds across sequential posi...
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Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
In 2016 the UK held a divisive referendum on its membership of the European Union. In the afterma... more In 2016 the UK held a divisive referendum on its membership of the European Union. In the aftermath, difference and division were rife in politics and in everyday life. This article explores how such difference and division play out in and through interaction through examining a citizen ‘picking a fight’ with a politician over how Brexit has been handled. Drawing on membership categorisation analysis we show how antagonism is interactionally accomplished. The analysis focuses on three categorial strategies which interlocutors use to achieve antagonism: establishing omnirelevant devices, categories and their predicates; explicitly challenging category membership; and partitioning a population. Beyond offering insights into moments of social life that are not easily captured, the findings contribute to an empirical conceptualisation of antagonism and illustrate how membership categorisation analysis can shed light on its interactional achievement.
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Pragmatics, Oct 25, 2021
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Language in Society, 2018
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This thesis puts forward a strong argument for why more up-to-date interactional research is need... more This thesis puts forward a strong argument for why more up-to-date interactional research is needed into disputes and why disciplines, methodological approaches and theories should come second to the phenomenon. This thesis investigates how people behave in disputes. Disputes are a ubiquitous part of everyday life – we know a great a deal about disputes in particular contexts, how people disagree, and how disputes can be resolved. However, little is known about the specific interactional features of public disputes. Public disputes are disputes which occur in a public place where there are onlookers – for instance, on public transport, on the radio, or during protests, for instance. These are activities which regularly occur throughout everyday life as our opinions, beliefs, views, identity and/or knowledge etc. clash. This research examines actual, naturally-occurring disputes between strangers in public. The focus is on the ways that people challenge those contestations, resist th...
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Feminism & Psychology, 2021
In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become int... more In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become internalised and thus perceived as “natural” conduct. The introduction of new vocabularies for referring to previously unnamed sexist conduct would presumably enable individuals to start problematising hitherto unchallengeable sexism. In this paper, we investigate whether and how these vocabularies empower people to speak out against sexism. We focus on the use of the term “mansplaining” which, although coined over 10 years ago, remains controversial and contested. Using Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis, this paper excavates the interactional methods individuals use to formulate, in vivo, some prior spate of talk as mansplaining. In doing so, speakers necessarily reformulate a co-participant’s social action to highlight its sexist nature. Accusations of mansplaining are accomplished by invoking gender (and other) categories and their associated rights to knowledg...
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Qualitative Research, 2020
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Applied Linguistics Review, 2017
Individual users of English as a first or second language are assumed to possess or aspire to a m... more Individual users of English as a first or second language are assumed to possess or aspire to a monolithic grammar, an internally consistent set of rules which represents the idealized norms or conventions of native speakers. This position reflects a deficit view of L2 learning and usage, and is at odds with usage-based approaches to language development and research findings on idiolectal variation. This study problematizes the assumption of monolithic ontologies of grammar for TESOL by exploring a fragment of genre-specific lexico-grammatical knowledge (the can you/could you V construction alternation in requests) in a single non-native user of English, post-instruction. A corpus sample of the individual’s output was compared with the input he was exposed to and broader norms for the genre. The analysis confirms findings in usage-based linguistics which demonstrate that an individual’s lexico-grammatical knowledge constitutes an inventory of constructions shaped in large part by d...
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Feminism & Psychology, 2021
In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become int... more In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become internalised and thus perceived as "natural" conduct. The introduction of new vocabularies for referring to previously unnamed sexist conduct would presumably enable individuals to start problematising hitherto unchallengeable sexism. In this paper, we investigate whether and how these vocabularies empower people to speak out against sexism. We focus on the use of the term "mansplaining" which, although coined over 10 years ago, remains controversial and contested. Using Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis, this paper excavates the interactional methods individuals use to formulate, in vivo, some prior spate of talk as mansplaining. In doing so, speakers necessarily reformulate a co-participant’s social action to highlight its sexist nature. Accusations of mansplaining are accomplished by invoking gender (and other) categories and their associated rights to knowledge. In reconstructing another’s conduct as mansplaining, speakers display their understanding of what mansplaining is (and could be) for the purpose at hand. Thus, the paper contributes to the well-established body of interactional research on manifestations of sexism by documenting how the normativity of epistemic rights is mobilised as a resource for bringing off accusations of mansplaining.
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Discourse Studies, 2022
When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, the... more When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, they seek to cast the other as the aggressor or party at fault, and otherwise exert social control. This article illustrates how members work to hamper challenges, evade control or avoid being negatively characterized by systematically blocking access to a turn in the third position and stopping their opponent's agenda. Examining 100 hours of public disputes (public transport, protestor interactions and radio call-ins) in varieties of English, I use membership categorization analysis and conversation analysis to unpack resistance as part of the structural organization of disputes. I identify two methods of resisting an agenda: (1) passively, whereby a responsive turn stalls the progressivity of the interaction, and (2) actively, whereby a responsive turn disaligns to outrightly suspend the progressivity of the interaction. I discuss how resistance sequentially unfolds across sequential positions, and as an interactional phenomenon which solves the trouble of a challenge. Overall, this article contributes to social interaction research on resistance, public disputes and how social order is constituted in and through talk-in-interaction.
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International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the
practical, ethical and epist... more Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the
practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with
qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates
by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis
(CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on
audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and
moreover works at a level of detail that presents challenges for assumptions
about participant anonymity. Nonetheless, data sharing occupies
a central position in both the methodology and the wider academic
culture of CA as a discipline and a community. Despite this, CA has largely
been ignored in qualitative data sharing debates and discussions. We
argue that the methodological traditions of CA present a strong case for
the value of qualitative data sharing and offer open data sharing practices
that might be usefully adopted in other qualitative approaches.
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Pragmatics, 2022
In 2016 the UK held a divisive referendum on its membership of the European Union. In the afterma... more In 2016 the UK held a divisive referendum on its membership of the European Union. In the aftermath, difference and division were rife in politics and in everyday life. This article explores how such difference and division play out in and through interaction through examining a citizen ‘picking a fight’ with a politician over how Brexit has been handled. Drawing on membership categorisation analysis we show how antagonism is interactionally accomplished. The analysis focuses on three categorial strategies which interlocutors use to achieve antagonism: establishing omnirelevant devices, categories and their predicates; explicitly challenging category membership; and partitioning a population. Beyond offering insights into moments of social life that are not easily captured, the findings contribute to an empirical conceptualisation of antagonism and illustrate how membership categorisation analysis can shed light on its interactional achievement.
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Investigating the lexico-grammatical resources of a non-native user of English: The case of can and could in email requests
Individual users of English as a first or second language are assumed to possess or aspire to a m... more Individual users of English as a first or second language are assumed to possess or aspire to a monolithic grammar, an internally consistent set of rules which represents the idealized norms or conventions of native speakers. This position reflects a deficit view of L2 learning and usage, and is at odds with usage-based approaches to language development and research findings on idiolectal variation. This study problematizes the assumption of monolithic ontologies of grammar for TESOL by exploring a fragment of genre-specific lexico-grammatical knowledge (the can you/could you V construction alternation in requests) in a single non-native user of English, post-instruction. A corpus sample of the individual’s output was compared with the input he was exposed to and broader norms for the genre. The analysis confirms findings in usage-based linguistics which demonstrate that an individual’s lexico-grammatical knowledge constitutes an inventory of constructions shaped in large part by distributional patterns in the input. But it also provides evidence for idiosyncratic preferences resulting from exemplar-based inertia in production, suggesting that input is not the sole factor. Results are discussed in the context of a “plurilithic” ontology of grammar and the challenges this represents for pedagogy and teacher development.
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Conference Presentations by Jack B Joyce
Over the past few decades, philosophers have sought to understand what value is and how it is use... more Over the past few decades, philosophers have sought to understand what value is and how it is used in order to achieve what a person sets out to do (Attfield, 1987). The focus has largely been on the wider usage of the morality of value and the exchange of knowledges in wider social terms. Very few philosophers and even linguists have been concerned with value in the moment-by-moment interactional events. This paper therefore begins to redress that imbalance.
In politeness theory, to manage ‘face’ involves claiming positive social value through the exchange of certain types of values in interaction (Goffman, 1955). And these values are used to (co)-construct identities through joint interactional activities.
Previous theories often pertain to value either as being instrument (a tool to be used to achieve satisfaction) or as value having intrinsic properties (in that an individual has an inherent moral
code). Linguistic theories, on the other hand, orient to value being an interactional resource which participants use to both explicate meaning and to seek progressivity in conversation. The overlap between the two approaches is apparent: value is a tool but it can certainly be used to build identities, exhibit power relations or aid in the sharing of knowledges.
This presentation reflects on this synthesis of philosophical theories (notably Nerlich, 1989; Nagel, 1970) and linguistic analysis (Jackendoff, 2006; Mondada, 2011; Asmuß, 2011) on value systems and morality in language. This is achieved by analyzing examples of actual interactional data taken from loci such as spoken interaction and online discussions. The proposed synthesis between the two approaches will be explained by focussing on how the joint activities of participants are carefully managed tasks in which they purposefully emphasise certain types of values to achieve their end goal(s).
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Conversation analytical studies of personal relationships between newly acquainted interlocutors ... more Conversation analytical studies of personal relationships between newly acquainted interlocutors have rarely been conducted (Svennevig, 1999; Stokoe, 2010; Haugh & Carbaugh, in press). This paper examines the process through which relationships are formed in initial interactions via a corpus collected by Sibthorpe (2008) of 20 British speed-dating encounters between self-declared heterosexuals in which talk orients to accounting for current relationship status and the demonstrable categorisation of one another so to become usable participants.
The analysis of these initial interactions aids to sketch the design features of membership categorisation devices, the apparent rules for application and the wider consequences for Conversation Analytical practices in dealing with identity. Membership Categorisation Analysis provides the framework for this analysis, this field of study has recently encountered a resurgence of sorts after falling by the wayside post Sacks’ death. The primary proponents of Membership Categorisation theory that provide the basis for analysis here are Stokoe (2003; 2004; 2008; 2009; 2012), Schegloff (2007) and Fitzgerald (2012).
This paper accounts for the usage of categorisation devices in the getting acquainted process. By the nature of ‘getting acquainted’ the devices are used prevalently due to a lack of both solidarity (Haugh & Carbaugh, in press) and common ground (Clark, 1996; Stokoe, 2010). Here then, the examination of membership categorisation devices serves to expand the existing literature by providing a framework of analysis in the categorisation of categories whilst also exploring the ‘getting acquainted’ process in further detail.
References
Fitzgerald, R. (2012). Membership categorization analysis: Wild and promiscuous or simply the joy of Sacks?. Discourse Studies, 14(3), 305-311.
Haugh, M. & Carbaugh, D. (in press). Self-disclosure in initial interactions amongst speakers of American and Australian English.
Schegloff, E. A. (2007). A tutorial on membership categorization. Journal of pragmatics, 39(3), 462-482.
Sibthorpe, S. (2008). Fast-Tracking Affection. Exploring the constraining influences of unacquaintedness, obligatory affect and time limit on speed dating interactions. Unpublished BA (Hons.) dissertation. York St John University.
Stokoe, E. (2004). Gender and discourse, gender and categorization: Current developments in language and gender research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1 (2), 107-129.
Stokoe, E. (2008). Categories, actions and sequences: Formulating gender in talk-in-interaction. na.
Stokoe, E. (2009). Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes. Text & Talk-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies, 29(1), 75-97.
Stokoe, E. (2010). “Have You Been Married, or…?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(3), 260-282.
Stokoe, E. (2012). Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis. Discourse Studies, 14 (3), 277-303. Special issue on Categories and social interaction: Current issues in membership categorization.
Svennevig, J. (1999). Getting Acquainted in Conversation: A study of initial interactions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
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Papers by Jack B Joyce
practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with
qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates
by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis
(CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on
audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and
moreover works at a level of detail that presents challenges for assumptions
about participant anonymity. Nonetheless, data sharing occupies
a central position in both the methodology and the wider academic
culture of CA as a discipline and a community. Despite this, CA has largely
been ignored in qualitative data sharing debates and discussions. We
argue that the methodological traditions of CA present a strong case for
the value of qualitative data sharing and offer open data sharing practices
that might be usefully adopted in other qualitative approaches.
Conference Presentations by Jack B Joyce
In politeness theory, to manage ‘face’ involves claiming positive social value through the exchange of certain types of values in interaction (Goffman, 1955). And these values are used to (co)-construct identities through joint interactional activities.
Previous theories often pertain to value either as being instrument (a tool to be used to achieve satisfaction) or as value having intrinsic properties (in that an individual has an inherent moral
code). Linguistic theories, on the other hand, orient to value being an interactional resource which participants use to both explicate meaning and to seek progressivity in conversation. The overlap between the two approaches is apparent: value is a tool but it can certainly be used to build identities, exhibit power relations or aid in the sharing of knowledges.
This presentation reflects on this synthesis of philosophical theories (notably Nerlich, 1989; Nagel, 1970) and linguistic analysis (Jackendoff, 2006; Mondada, 2011; Asmuß, 2011) on value systems and morality in language. This is achieved by analyzing examples of actual interactional data taken from loci such as spoken interaction and online discussions. The proposed synthesis between the two approaches will be explained by focussing on how the joint activities of participants are carefully managed tasks in which they purposefully emphasise certain types of values to achieve their end goal(s).
The analysis of these initial interactions aids to sketch the design features of membership categorisation devices, the apparent rules for application and the wider consequences for Conversation Analytical practices in dealing with identity. Membership Categorisation Analysis provides the framework for this analysis, this field of study has recently encountered a resurgence of sorts after falling by the wayside post Sacks’ death. The primary proponents of Membership Categorisation theory that provide the basis for analysis here are Stokoe (2003; 2004; 2008; 2009; 2012), Schegloff (2007) and Fitzgerald (2012).
This paper accounts for the usage of categorisation devices in the getting acquainted process. By the nature of ‘getting acquainted’ the devices are used prevalently due to a lack of both solidarity (Haugh & Carbaugh, in press) and common ground (Clark, 1996; Stokoe, 2010). Here then, the examination of membership categorisation devices serves to expand the existing literature by providing a framework of analysis in the categorisation of categories whilst also exploring the ‘getting acquainted’ process in further detail.
References
Fitzgerald, R. (2012). Membership categorization analysis: Wild and promiscuous or simply the joy of Sacks?. Discourse Studies, 14(3), 305-311.
Haugh, M. & Carbaugh, D. (in press). Self-disclosure in initial interactions amongst speakers of American and Australian English.
Schegloff, E. A. (2007). A tutorial on membership categorization. Journal of pragmatics, 39(3), 462-482.
Sibthorpe, S. (2008). Fast-Tracking Affection. Exploring the constraining influences of unacquaintedness, obligatory affect and time limit on speed dating interactions. Unpublished BA (Hons.) dissertation. York St John University.
Stokoe, E. (2004). Gender and discourse, gender and categorization: Current developments in language and gender research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1 (2), 107-129.
Stokoe, E. (2008). Categories, actions and sequences: Formulating gender in talk-in-interaction. na.
Stokoe, E. (2009). Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes. Text & Talk-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies, 29(1), 75-97.
Stokoe, E. (2010). “Have You Been Married, or…?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(3), 260-282.
Stokoe, E. (2012). Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis. Discourse Studies, 14 (3), 277-303. Special issue on Categories and social interaction: Current issues in membership categorization.
Svennevig, J. (1999). Getting Acquainted in Conversation: A study of initial interactions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with
qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates
by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis
(CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on
audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and
moreover works at a level of detail that presents challenges for assumptions
about participant anonymity. Nonetheless, data sharing occupies
a central position in both the methodology and the wider academic
culture of CA as a discipline and a community. Despite this, CA has largely
been ignored in qualitative data sharing debates and discussions. We
argue that the methodological traditions of CA present a strong case for
the value of qualitative data sharing and offer open data sharing practices
that might be usefully adopted in other qualitative approaches.
In politeness theory, to manage ‘face’ involves claiming positive social value through the exchange of certain types of values in interaction (Goffman, 1955). And these values are used to (co)-construct identities through joint interactional activities.
Previous theories often pertain to value either as being instrument (a tool to be used to achieve satisfaction) or as value having intrinsic properties (in that an individual has an inherent moral
code). Linguistic theories, on the other hand, orient to value being an interactional resource which participants use to both explicate meaning and to seek progressivity in conversation. The overlap between the two approaches is apparent: value is a tool but it can certainly be used to build identities, exhibit power relations or aid in the sharing of knowledges.
This presentation reflects on this synthesis of philosophical theories (notably Nerlich, 1989; Nagel, 1970) and linguistic analysis (Jackendoff, 2006; Mondada, 2011; Asmuß, 2011) on value systems and morality in language. This is achieved by analyzing examples of actual interactional data taken from loci such as spoken interaction and online discussions. The proposed synthesis between the two approaches will be explained by focussing on how the joint activities of participants are carefully managed tasks in which they purposefully emphasise certain types of values to achieve their end goal(s).
The analysis of these initial interactions aids to sketch the design features of membership categorisation devices, the apparent rules for application and the wider consequences for Conversation Analytical practices in dealing with identity. Membership Categorisation Analysis provides the framework for this analysis, this field of study has recently encountered a resurgence of sorts after falling by the wayside post Sacks’ death. The primary proponents of Membership Categorisation theory that provide the basis for analysis here are Stokoe (2003; 2004; 2008; 2009; 2012), Schegloff (2007) and Fitzgerald (2012).
This paper accounts for the usage of categorisation devices in the getting acquainted process. By the nature of ‘getting acquainted’ the devices are used prevalently due to a lack of both solidarity (Haugh & Carbaugh, in press) and common ground (Clark, 1996; Stokoe, 2010). Here then, the examination of membership categorisation devices serves to expand the existing literature by providing a framework of analysis in the categorisation of categories whilst also exploring the ‘getting acquainted’ process in further detail.
References
Fitzgerald, R. (2012). Membership categorization analysis: Wild and promiscuous or simply the joy of Sacks?. Discourse Studies, 14(3), 305-311.
Haugh, M. & Carbaugh, D. (in press). Self-disclosure in initial interactions amongst speakers of American and Australian English.
Schegloff, E. A. (2007). A tutorial on membership categorization. Journal of pragmatics, 39(3), 462-482.
Sibthorpe, S. (2008). Fast-Tracking Affection. Exploring the constraining influences of unacquaintedness, obligatory affect and time limit on speed dating interactions. Unpublished BA (Hons.) dissertation. York St John University.
Stokoe, E. (2004). Gender and discourse, gender and categorization: Current developments in language and gender research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1 (2), 107-129.
Stokoe, E. (2008). Categories, actions and sequences: Formulating gender in talk-in-interaction. na.
Stokoe, E. (2009). Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes. Text & Talk-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies, 29(1), 75-97.
Stokoe, E. (2010). “Have You Been Married, or…?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(3), 260-282.
Stokoe, E. (2012). Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis. Discourse Studies, 14 (3), 277-303. Special issue on Categories and social interaction: Current issues in membership categorization.
Svennevig, J. (1999). Getting Acquainted in Conversation: A study of initial interactions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.