Abstract This paper examines the use of self-repairs in ascribing old-age categorisations to self and others in casual interactions among friends. Membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis are employed to analyse self-recorded, everyday conversations of a group of older Greek Cypriot women with a long interactional history. The interactional organisation of old-age labels, and specifically instances of self-repair of age categorisations, reveal that members orient to old-age categories as hierarchically positioned and inference-rich. Members make relevant a very intricate set of expectations of who can be categorised by whom, with what specific age category term and at which context, partly because other-categorisations can also implicate one’s self-categorisation as old. Sequential and categorisation analyses provide a powerful analytical toolkit for the investigation of participants’ local system of self- and other-ascription of explicit -but also implicit- age identities. It is shown that the combination of membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis can be extended beyond the analysis of turn-generating categories and can be instrumental in analysing flexible, context-shaped and agentively managed category identifications that also have currency beyond the local interactional occasion.

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维修和老年分类：交互和分类分析

摘要本文研究了自我修复在朋友与他们之间的随意互动中将老年人归为自我和他人时的分类。会员资格分类分析和会话分析用于分析一组具有悠久互动历史的希族塞人老年妇女的自录式日常对话。老年人标签的交互组织，特别是年龄分类自我修复的实例，揭示了成员将老年人定位为分层定位且推理丰富的对象。成员对哪些人可以由谁进行分类，具有什么样的特定年龄类别术语以及在何种环境下做出了非常复杂的期望，部分原因是其他类别也可以暗示一个人的自我分类很老。顺序分析和分类分析提供了一个强大的分析工具包，用于调查参与者对显式身份以及隐性身份的自我和其他归属的本地系统。结果表明，成员资格分类分析和对话分析的组合可以扩展到生成回合类别的分析之外，并且可以用于分析灵活，上下文形状和代理管理的类别标识，这些标识也具有超越本地交互场合的作用。