Name(ing) norms: Mispronunciations and ethnic categories in political talk

Abstract This article investigates the situated orientation to and production of social political norms related pronunciation person names in context announcing next speakers during a meeting. Through detailed multimodal analysis naturally occurring interaction, discusses how participants party's congress Sweden treat chairpersons’ as rendering them (non)normative relating ethnic categories. In associating specific prosodic realizations with ‘(non)Swedish-ness’ orienting this inacceptable, reflexively establish these membership categories and, moreover, unequal. way, contributes our understanding normative aspects regarding public announcements turn-taking procedure interaction are invoked established by virtue formal properties their production. (Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, names, turn-taking, ethnicity, prosody)*