Positioning as membership management
The case of narratives about public authorities
Uta M. Quasthoff | Technische Universität Dortmund
The contribution looks into the mechanisms of interactively establishing identities by managing memberships in the special case of telling a researcher about experiences and assessments with respect to public authorities. Drawing on the particular potential of these data, it is shown how the tasks of assigning memberships and ascribing appropriate category-bound activities are performed within evaluative practices and how general assessments and singular personal experiences are intertwined to position the teller in the ongoing interaction.
Keywords: authority, complaint stories, bureaucracy, positioning, membership categorization, narrative
Published online: 12 December 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.23.1.07qua
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.23.1.07qua
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