This study investigates the sequentially occasioned provision of what I term category accounts in interaction. Category accounts tap into and make use of normative assumptions about identities and membership categories in order to explain away moments of what the participants view as category deviance. To introduce this concept, I focus on sequences in which speakers’ initiations of repair (e.g. Huh?) are oriented to as indicative of a problem of understanding. In the cases examined here, recipients of such initiations of repair treat divergence from some gender/sexuality norm as the source of the misunderstanding, which is revealed through their attempt to resolve the trouble by providing a category account, thereby closing the repair sequence and providing for the resumption of progressivity. These and similar accounting sequences are thus a means through which participants collaboratively normalize momentary departures from normativity, while at the same time reconstituting what exactly constitutes ‘normativity’ and ‘departures therefrom’, and for whom. (Gender, sexuality, identity, membership categorization, Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, repair, social interaction, normativity, deviance)*

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类别账户：行动序列中的同一性和规范性

这项研究调查了我所说的顺序发生的提供类别帐户在互动中。类别账户利用并利用关于身份和成员类别的规范假设，以解释参与者认为类别偏差的时刻。为了介绍这个概念，我将重点放在说话者开始修复的序列（例如嗯？) 被导向作为理解问题的指示。在这里审查的案例中，接受此类修复启动的接受者将与某些性别/性规范的分歧视为误解的根源，这通过他们试图通过提供类别帐户来解决问题来揭示，从而关闭修复序列并提供为恢复渐进性。因此，这些和类似的会计序列是一种手段，参与者通过这种方式合作规范对规范性的瞬间偏离，同时重新构建究竟构成“规范性”和“偏离”的内容，以及为谁。（性别、性取向、身份、成员分类、对话分析、民族方法学、修复、社会互动、规范性、偏差）*