Category partitioning events: communicating Astronomy as jointly produced achievements

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	Category partitioning events: communicating Astronomy as jointly produced achievements
	RICARDO MOUTINHO RODRIGUES DA SILVA
	2024-06
Size of Audience	50
Type of Speaker	Panel Speaker
Abstract	Recent research on astronomy outreach activities (Marques et al., 2022, 2021; Carlin et al. 2021) has explored the work that members jointly produce to make sense of objects and patterns seen through telescopes, and how these astronomical objects are discussed in settings such as observatories and planetariums. However, so far there are no dedicated explorations of how members (i.e., guides and visitors) shape their talk according to the categorial organisation of the interaction. In this paper, we argue that guides and visitors, even with different levels of astronomy competence, engage in activities that are dependent on each other’s view of the same object under observation. We elaborate upon advances in MCA including “turn-informed categories” (Watson 2015) and “turn-allocated categories” (Moutinho and Carlin 2021), through participants’ displays of knowledge. In so doing, we look at astronomy outreach sessions as “category partitioning” events. Our data show that guides and visitors orient to each other through (what we call) turn-allocational categories, i.e. turn or activity distribution is not unidirectional (guide to visitors) but is collaborative and/or self-administered. Our data show a more refined notion of category pair; and this refinement takes into account the reflexivity of categorial and sequential aspects of the instruction.
Keyword	Membership Categorization Analysis Ethnomethodology Category Partitioning Turn-informed Categories
Conference Date	24-28/06/2024
Conference Place	Seoul, Korea
Document Type	Presentation
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE
Affiliation	University of Macau
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	RICARDO MOUTINHO RODRIGUES DA SILVA. Category partitioning events: communicating Astronomy as jointly produced achievements, 24-28/06/2024.

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