“For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification
| Type of publication: | Article |
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| Publication status: | Published |
| Journal: | Human Studies |
| Year: | 2023 |
| URL: | https://link.springer.com/arti... |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10746-023-09665-7 |
| Abstract: | Members in society make ubiquitous use of examples as a resource to engage in their everyday and specialized activities. This paper takes the resourcefulness of exemplification as a topic of inquiry by focusing on the formulative phrase “for example,” investigating its interactional work within the analytic framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The data used consists of 11 h of video-recordings of English as a Foreign Language classroom lessons over a semester. We conceptualize exemplification as a holistic configuration (gestalt) where its work consists in the production and recognition of a pair, namely the exemplifying component and the exemplified component. We demonstrate how the teacher and students position the formulative phrase as a recognizable practice for the organization of two distinct actions: accounting for one’s opinion and confirming an understanding. Our findings also present the different forms of exemplification, including elaborate narrative constructions, single terms or phrases, and specimen performances. |
| Keywords: | classroom discourse, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, exemplification, social interaction |
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