This study uses conversational and membership categorization analyses to explore how Piers Morgan and Bassem Youssef locally employ sequential orga-nization and embodied social categorization work to frame public disc...This study uses conversational and membership categorization analyses to explore how Piers Morgan and Bassem Youssef locally employ sequential orga-nization and embodied social categorization work to frame public discourse around accountability and condemnation in the 2023 Israel-Gaza war(IGW).The study ex-plores how specific membership categorization devices,categories,category-bound activities,and predicates construct and challenge social structures and interactional processes in political discourse.This study delves into the embodied categorical practices that recognize or produce social action and local accomplishments of social organizations to identify the normative power of categorization in prompting moral evaluations.Using ethnomethodology,it illustrates how social order is achieved through situated accomplishments of members’practical actions and reasoning,using linguistic devices and commonsense knowledge in face-to-face news interviews.The findings indicate that through multimodal resources–voice,ges-tures,and body language–both Morgan and Youssef invoke and negotiate moral categories that frame perspectives on the Israeli-Arab conflict,highlighting dynamics of aggression,dehumanization,and social justice.They mobilize and enact membership categories through activities,predicates,and attributes that resonate with notions of morality and social justice.Contributing to the literature on multi-modal organizational studies in political communication,this study addresses the underexplored role of multimodal interactional resources in the situated construc-tion and challenge of social and moral categories to shape public perceptions of complex conflicts.展开更多
文摘This study uses conversational and membership categorization analyses to explore how Piers Morgan and Bassem Youssef locally employ sequential orga-nization and embodied social categorization work to frame public discourse around accountability and condemnation in the 2023 Israel-Gaza war(IGW).The study ex-plores how specific membership categorization devices,categories,category-bound activities,and predicates construct and challenge social structures and interactional processes in political discourse.This study delves into the embodied categorical practices that recognize or produce social action and local accomplishments of social organizations to identify the normative power of categorization in prompting moral evaluations.Using ethnomethodology,it illustrates how social order is achieved through situated accomplishments of members’practical actions and reasoning,using linguistic devices and commonsense knowledge in face-to-face news interviews.The findings indicate that through multimodal resources–voice,ges-tures,and body language–both Morgan and Youssef invoke and negotiate moral categories that frame perspectives on the Israeli-Arab conflict,highlighting dynamics of aggression,dehumanization,and social justice.They mobilize and enact membership categories through activities,predicates,and attributes that resonate with notions of morality and social justice.Contributing to the literature on multi-modal organizational studies in political communication,this study addresses the underexplored role of multimodal interactional resources in the situated construc-tion and challenge of social and moral categories to shape public perceptions of complex conflicts.
