Doing actions with identity categories: Complaints and denials in neighbor disputes

Text and Talk

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-97

  Stokoe, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complaints; Conversation analysis; Denials; Membership categorization; Neighbor disputes; Police interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149094373     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2009.004     Document Type: Review

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