In everyday life we may hear someone being racist or saying something otherwise
objectionable in a public space. Calling out that person for being discriminatory is generally …

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 …

Bilmes's work in the last decade of his career was primarily concerned with the approach he
developed and called Occasioned Semantics. Bilmes based OS on Sacks'(1995) …

This paper observes the emergence of membership categories and their role in the
construction of accountability in news interview interactions on two Arabic networks. It …

This paper explores the social action of sanctioning an interlocutor's conduct in public
spaces through social media. Using membership categorisation analysis (Hester and Eglin …