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<DOCINFO AUTHOR "" TITLE "Talking Gender and Sexuality" SUBJECT "Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, Volume 94" KEYWORDS "" SIZE HEIGHT "220" WIDTH "150" VOFFSET "4"> Talking Gender and Sexuality Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Editor Andreas H. Jucker Justus Liebig University Giessen, English Department Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10, D-35394 Giessen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Associate Editors JacobL.Mey University of Southern Denmark Herman Parret Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp Jef Verschueren Belgian National Science Foundation, University of Antwerp Editorial Board Shoshana Blum-Kulka Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Lyon 2 Jean Caron Claudia de Lemos Université de Poitiers University of Campinas, Brazil Robyn Carston Marina Sbisà University College London University of Trieste Bruce Fraser Emanuel Schegloff Boston University University of California at Los Angeles Thorstein Fretheim Deborah Schiffrin University of Trondheim Georgetown University John Heritage Paul O. Takahara University of California at Los Angeles Kansai Gaidai University Susan Herring Sandra Thompson University of Texas at Arlington University of California at Santa Barbara Masako K. Hiraga Teun A. Van Dijk St.Paul’s (Rikkyo) University University of Amsterdam David Holdcroft Richard J. Watts University of Leeds University of Berne Sachiko Ide Japan Womens’ University Volume 94 Talking Gender and Sexuality Edited by Paul McIlvenny Talking Gender and Sexuality Edited by Paul McIlvenny Aalborg University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American 8 National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Talking gender and sexuality / edited by Paul McIlvenny. p. cm. (Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, issn 0922-842X ; v. 94) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Conversation analysis. 2. Language and sex. 3. Feminism. I. McIlvenny, Paul. II. Series. P95.45.T356 2002 401.43--dc21 2002276251 isbn 90 272 51142 (Eur.) / 1 58811 1733 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) © 2002 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Preface vii Transcription conventions ix . Introduction Researching Talk, Gender and Sexuality Paul McIlvenny . Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis Celia Kitzinger . Gender and Sexuality in Talk-in-Interaction: Considering Conversation Analytic Perspectives Elizabeth Stokoe & Janet Smithson . Critical Reflections on Performativity and the ‘Un/Doing’ of Gender and Sexuality in Talk Paul McIlvenny . From Performatives to Practices Judith Butler, Discursive Psychology and the Management of Heterosexist Talk Susan Speer & Jonathan Potter . Negotiating Gender Identities and Sexual Agency in Elderly Couples’ Talk Liisa Tainio . Framing Gender Incongruous Gendered Identities in Dar es Salaam Adolescents’ Talk Sigurd D’hondt Table of contents . The Repressed on Parole Gender Categorisation, Performativity and the Unsaid in Talkin’ Dirty Jokes Andrew Fish . Figuring Gender in Teachers’ Talk about School Bullying Alexa Hepburn . “I’m still not sure she’s a she” Textual Talk and Typed Bodies in Online Interaction Jenny Sundén List of contributors Index Preface In a convoluted fashion, this edited volume developed from a cosy interna- tional symposium on ‘Talking Gender & Sexuality’ that took place at Aalborg University, Denmark on November 5-6, 1999. In the end, all but one of the contributions to the book were selected from the many presentations given at (or submitted to) that symposium. The chapters are significantly revised ver- sions of the original presentations, amended in the light of discussions at the symposium, the reviewers’ and editor’s comments, and the contributors’ magnanimous reading of each other’s drafts. Praise must be heaped on the contributors, who wrote such excellent articles, met my deadlines for submis- sions and revisions, and were thoroughly professional in their commitment to the project. Thanks to the intrepid Johannes Wagner and the MOVIN (Micro-analy- sis Of Verbal/Visual INteraction) research organisation in Denmark for sup- porting, collegially and financially, the original symposium. I would also like to thank the symposium coordinator, Bente Vestergaard, and her assistant, Dorte Dewitz, as well as the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University for providing funds to support their part in the success of the symposium. My appreciation goes to the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series editor, Andreas Jucker, and the two anonymous readers of the manuscript, as well as Isja Conen, who capably fulfilled the role of publishing editor for John Benjamins. Recognition should also go to all the reviewers, including Alan Firth, Andrew Fish, Kirsten Gomard, Marjorie H. Goodwin, Elise Kärkkäinen, Arja Piirainen-Marsh and Pirkko Raudaskoski, for com- menting at short notice and with alacrity on the first drafts. I express my grat- itude to Sue Wilkinson for her generous advice in the early stages of the pro- ject and for providing exemplars of how to draft a prospectus for potential publishers. Transcription conventions The transcription conventions used in this book for rendering the nuances and details of spoken conversation reflect the standard that has emerged in conver- sation analysis. This evolving system has been developed chiefly by Gail Jefferson (1989: 193-196) and has undergone some modifications since the early studies, as can be seen from an inspection of the transcripts in Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974) and Sacks’ (1995) Lectures on Conversation. See ten Have (1999: 75-98) and Hutchby and Wooffitt (1998: 73-92) for thorough discussions of the transcription practices in CA. A glossary is given below. For languages other than English (see chapters by Tainio and D’hondt in this vol- ume) an interlinear gloss of the syntactic structure is provided, along with a free translation into English. Readers are referred to the individual chapters for the author’s glossary of the additional notation conventions that they employ. Symbol Designation A: Current speaker (designated by a letter, a name or a category description). CAPS Capitalised letters indicate that a section of speech is louder than the surrounding speech. Underscoring Underlined fragments indicate stress or emphasis. °soft° Degree signs enclose speech that is quieter than the surrounding speech. <fast> Faster than surrounding speech. >slow< Slower than surrounding speech. @voice@ The speech enclosed by the @s is said in an animated voice. “voice” Quotation voice. Transcription conventions erm:: A colon indicates a prolongation of the immediately prior sound. The number of colons tells the length of the prolongation. A period indicates a falling intonation. , A comma indicates a continuing intonation. ? A question mark indicates a rising intonation. ¿ An upside-down question mark indicates a rising intona- tion (more upwardly pronounced than a ‘,’ but less so than a ‘?’). ↑ or ↓ A marked shift into a higher or lower pitch in the utterance immediately following the arrow. `no A marked fall in pitch on a syllable. Bu- The dash marks a stop or cut-off in sound. .hhh or hhh An inbreath or outbreath. The length is indicated by the number of hs. A full stop prefixing a word indicates that it is pronounced with an inbreath (eg. .joo in Finnish). hu, ha, he Laugh particles. If enclosed in round brackets, eg. (h), then it occurs while talking. (0.0) Figures in rounded brackets represent absences of sound or activity, in steps of one tenth of a second. (.) A micropause (roughly 0.2 seconds or less). oo[oooo] Overlap onset is marked with a single left square bracket [oooo]oo and a single right square bracket marks where overlap ter- minates. = Latched utterances. There is no ‘gap’ between two utterances. ( ) or ( ): An untranscribable passage or an unidentifiable speaker. (guess) or (A): A transcriber’s guess of a dubious hearing or speaker iden- tification. ((comment)) Comment by the transcriber. → An arrow in the margin draws the reader’s attention to aspects of the analysis discussed in the text. Transcription conventions References Have, Paul ten. 1999 Doing Conversation Analysis: A Practical Guide. London: Sage. Hutchby, Ian and Wooffitt, Robin. 1998 Conversation Analysis: Principles, Practices and Applications. Cambridge: Polity. Jefferson, Gail. 1989 “Preliminary notes on a possible metric which provides for a ‘stan- dard maximum’ silence of approximately one second in conversation”. In Conversation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, D. Roger and P. Bull (eds), 166-196. Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. Sacks, Harvey. 1995 Lectures on Conversation: Volumes I and II. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Sacks, Harvey, Schegloff, Emanuel A. and Jefferson, Gail. 1974 “A simplest systematics for the organisation of turn-taking for conversation”. Language 50: 696-735. Introduction Researching talk, gender and sexuality* Paul McIlvenny . Introduction In the 1990s, a rich and enlightening debate took place concerning the best way to approach