Extreme Case (Re)formulation as a Practice for Making Hearably Racist Talk Repairable

This article investigates the interactional organization of racism through participant production and uptake of explicit racial membership categories across a corpus of 50+ hours of audio-/video-recorded interaction in three U.S. states. The discourse analysis examines one participant method for add...

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Published in:Journal of language and social psychology 2015-09, Vol.34 (4), p.390-409
Main Author: Robles, Jessica S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Discourse analysis
Racism
Social psychology
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Summary:This article investigates the interactional organization of racism through participant production and uptake of explicit racial membership categories across a corpus of 50+ hours of audio-/video-recorded interaction in three U.S. states. The discourse analysis examines one participant method for addressing “hearably racist” talk: echoing extreme versions of the problematic utterance to provide opportunities for repair work on inferable associations between membership categories and category-bound activities. Orienting to implicit inferential material as the source of trouble licenses participant account-seeking; treating the racism as a repairable downgrades its status as an overt instance of racism.
ISSN:0261-927X
1552-6526
DOI:10.1177/0261927X15586573