CATEGORIES FOR STORYTELLING. AN ANALYSIS OF THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
Abstract
Membership Categorization Analysis is usually used to analyze news texts and ordinary conversations. However, it can show how the methodic use of membership categories is a fundamental property of the narrative texts. In this short essay, I want to show how the membership categories selected to describe the characters of a short story are selected in a methodic way and how their methodic use achieves the moral message of the story. I show my hypothesis with the analysis of an evangelical short story: The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Keywords: membership categories; Harvey Sacks; narration; moral message; evangelical parables.
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Louch A. (1966). Explanation and Human Action. Berkeley: University of California Press.
MacIntyre A. (1982). After Virtue, University of Notre Dame.
Sacks H (1972), An Initial Investigation of the Usability of Conversational Data for Doing Sociology. In D. Sudnow, Studies in Social Interaction, New York: The Free Press.
Sacks H. (1974). On the Analyzability of Stories by Children. In R. Turner (ed), Ethnomethodology. London: Penguin Book.
Sacks H. (a cura di E. Caniglia) (2010). L’analisi delle categorie. Roma: Armando.
Sacks H. (a cura di E. Caniglia, A. Spreafico e F. Zanettin) (2020). Fare sociologia, Padova: Edizioni Altravista.
Stetson J. (1999). Victim, Offender and Witness in the Emplotment of News Stories, in P. Jalbert (ed), Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches, Washington: University of America Press.
Stokoe E., Huma B. & Edwards D. (2020). Sacks, Categories, Language and Gender. In R. J. Smith, R. Fitzgerald & W. Housley (Eds,), On Sacks, London: Routledge.
Watson R. (2009). Analysing Practical and Professional Texts. Burlington: Ashgate.
Published
2024-08-24
How to Cite
Caniglia, E. (2024). CATEGORIES FOR STORYTELLING. AN ANALYSIS OF THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN. PALIMPSEST / ПАЛИМПСЕСТ, 9(17), 27-34. https://doi.org/10.46763/PALIM24917027c
Section
ЈАЗИК / LANGUAGE
