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Publication details [#26799]

Lawrence, Samuel G. 1996. Normalizing stigmatized practices: Achieving co-membership by "Doing being ordinary". Research on Language and Social Interaction 29 (3) : 181–218.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | event | interview | ordinary language | report

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores how participants to a news interview collaborate to normalize the interviewee's otherwise stigmatized practice of running a house of prostitution by foregrounding as newsworthy the ordinary and mundane aspects of this operation.