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visitors’ contributions to membership categorization and storytelling through posing questions, relating personal experience, and
displaying stance in touching and handling objects. The findings show how practices of membership categorization and storytelling
are co-constructed, and how participants draw upon multimodal resources including talk, the body, and objects in practices of
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