Pam Nilan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pam Nilan is involved.

Article

Nilan, Pam 1995 Membership categorization devices under construction: Social identity boundary maintenance in everyday discourse Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18:1, pp. 69–94 | Article

This paper draws upon the sociological tradition of language analysis, specifically Sacks’ work on membership categorisation devices. The paper argues that processes of evaluating and assigning membership of categories within given collectivities may be identified as operating across diverse… read more