Ethnic Categorization in Interviews in English as a Lingua Franca

The book looks into the in situ organization of ethnic and racial categorization in interviews in English as a lingua franca. It proposes the combined ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach. The author shows that the negotiation of ethnic identity categories concerns stereotypes and evaluations included in ethnic categorization. She establishes that the ways of negotiating ethnic identity categories are largely systematic, which indicates that talk participants share the norms of construing ethnic identity categories and recognize preferred and dispreferred categorization. The book reveals that ambiguous categorial references are a special challenge for talk participants. Social types and groups are used not only to create but also to avoid prejudiced ethnic categorization.

List of contents

English as a lingua franca - Intercultural communication - Ethnomethodology - Conversation analysis - Membership categorization analysis - Interviews - Ethnic and racial categorization - Negotiation of ethnic identity categories - Macro and micro context - Social identity category - Preference structure

About the author

Agnieszka Nowicka is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland. Her research focuses on ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, communication in English as a lingua franca, English and Polish media discourse and teaching and learning English as a foreign language.

Product details

• Authors: Agnieszka Nowicka
• Assisted by: Camilla Badstübner-Kizik (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9783631649947
• ISBN: 978-3-631-64994-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Posener Beiträge zur Angewandten Linguistik; Posener Beiträge zur Angewandten Linguistik; Poznan Studies in Applied Linguistics / Posener Be; Poznan Studies in Applied Linguistics / Posener Beiträge zur Angewandten Linguistik
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures