Repeated stances in interaction accrue into enduring identities like gender

Evidence

Ochs and Taylor identify a number of interactional roles in such narratives, including protagonist, primary teller, and primary recipient. They also found that the narratives in their sample tended to involve negative evaluation of the protagonist by the primary recipient, a role pair they term problematizee/ problematizer. In Example (5), Dad assumes the role of problematizer and assigns Mom the role of problematizee at several points. Moreover, the authors discovered that the gendered distribution of interactional roles in this example was a general feature of other interactions they recorded between demographically similar married couples. In this way, gendered identities are built not only locally within couples, but more broadly across (some kinds of) couples. Through the repetition of such processes, the interactional identities produced via stance taking accrue into more enduring identities like gender, as well as forming ideologies of gender-appropriate interactional practice. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 62

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the problematizee/problematizer role pair and the ‘accrual’ model of identity.
• ADDENDUM: Pairs with the mechanism of identity as negotiated interaction, the paper’s stated area of interest.
• XREF: connects to: Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202; Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 119; Prejudice is sustained through routine conversational identity categorization — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 508 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it #corroborates (0.90) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 119
• Identity is constituted through social action and language rather than merely reflected in behavior #corroborates (0.85) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 19
• Prejudice is sustained through routine conversational identity categorization #exemplifies (0.82) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 508
• Emergent identity work still draws on structure built up in prior interactions #qualifies (0.80) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 19
• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202
• Identical interaction forms recur across radically different social groups #corroborates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 198