After setting Sacks' work on membership categorization in its historical and analytical
context, and suggesting some ways of reading the original texts, I sketch the major …

For the last decade, conversation analysis (CA) has increasingly contributed to several
established fields in applied linguistics. In this article, we will discuss its methodological …

The aim of this book is to demystify discursive psychology (DP): from the theoretical
principles on which it is based, to the method of how to 'do'DP and use it in different ways. It …

This article examines formative interventions as we understand them in cultural-historical
activity theory and reflects on key differences between this intervention research tradition …

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly
expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative …

This article has four aims. First, it will consider explicitly, and polemically, the hierarchical
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Introduction 1 What is qualitative data 'analysis' anyway? 2 Contextualized analysis 6 The
notion of 'qualitative'in qualitative data analysis 7 Describing the research process 9 The …

Graduate and professional TESOL students will welcome this research methods textbook for
undertaking qualitative, naturalistic and action research projects. Uniquely, the book offers a …

Purpose–This paper aims to identify the key antecedents and moderators that influence
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Identity'attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debates. Theory
abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture …