37.2784, Books: New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis: Housley, Fitzgerald, Au-Yeung, and Smith (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 31-Aug-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis: Housley, Fitzgerald, Au-Yeung, and Smith (eds.) (2026)


Title: New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis
Series Title: Studies in Pragmatics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/69741

Editor(s): William Housley, Richard Fitzgerald, Terry S.H. Au-Yeung,
Robin James Smith

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-75108-8
E-Book ISBN (PDF): 978-90-04-75109-5
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751095
xiv, 243 pp.

Abstract:

Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) developed as a refocusing of
Harvey Sacks’ original analyses of categories, devices, and sequence
in talk-in-interaction. In building empirically an understanding of
membership categorisation practices as ‘culture-in-action’, MCA, and
this collection, opens up an attention to categorisation practices, in
all their forms, as means of doing ethnomethodology and sociology.
Indeed, MCA has become a prominent methodological and analytic
approach across the social sciences and a range of topics of study as
a powerful form of ethnomethodologically grounded inquiry. The aim of
this collection is to showcase the cutting edge of MCA research and
future new directions.
Readership: The book is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates,
research students and MCA researchers. The book will appeal across the
social sciences as well as through engagement with individual
chapters.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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