Interactional Competence (IC) involves speakers’ ability to make social actions recognizable to one another while taking into account individual identities and social role relationships (Hall and Pekarek Doehler 2011). Existing IC research, however, has foregrounded the sequential features of interaction while paying less attention to the categorial resources speakers draw on. This study uses Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) to explicate the categorial resources speakers employ in interaction. The dataset comes from 22 participants with a mixture of first-language and second-language Chinese speakers. They were audio-recorded while undertaking a roleplay task in Chinese—assuming the role of an employee and complaining to their manager about unfair practices at work. After analysing the transcribed data using the MCA procedure (Stokoe 2012), we present analyses that address three foundational questions about how speakers use categorial resources to (i) make their social actions recognizable, (ii) respond to interlocutors’ social actions, and (iii) orient to the moral order of interaction. We argue MCA can provide important insight into the categorial nature of interaction in IC research.

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关于使用会员分类分析来调查互动能力的承诺

互动能力（IC）涉及说话者在考虑个人身份和社会角色关系的同时使社会行为彼此可识别的能力（Hall 和 Pekarek Doehler 2011）。然而，现有的 IC 研究强调了交互的顺序特征，而很少关注说话者所利用的类别资源。本研究使用会员分类分析 (MCA) 来解释说话者在互动中使用的类别资源。该数据集来自 22 名参与者，其中包括母语和第二语言为中文的人。他们在用中文进行角色扮演任务时被录音——扮演一名员工并向经理抱怨工作中的不公平做法。使用 MCA 程序分析转录数据后 (Stokoe 2012)，我们提出的分析解决了三个基本问题，即说话者如何使用类别资源来（i）使他们的社会行为可识别，（ii）对对话者的社会行为做出反应，以及（iii）适应互动的道德秩序。我们认为 MCA 可以为 IC 研究中相互作用的分类性质提供重要的见解。