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School of Social Sciences

Professor Stephen Hester - Research

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Research interests

Professor Stephen Hester's research expertise is in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and especially in membership categorization analysis. His previously published research includes studies of: mundane reason, description and motivational accounts in referral talk involving teachers and educational psychologists; the categorical organization of mass media stories about the Montreal Massacre (with Peter Eglin); 'reality analysis' in classroom talk and story-telling; and the use of national identity categories in television news reports. His current research consists of a study of sequential and categorical orders in the organization of descriptions of 'deviance' in referral talk.