ABSTRACT
Like Edwards, Stokoe and Smithson were interested in occasions where gender categories crop up in the interactions and how they work to accomplish particular actions. Stokoe and Smithson's (2001) work on gender and language made two important contributions to an analytic approach to category relevance. Edwards proposes that girl downgrades the gendered membership category ascribed to the other woman because of the categories relative status. Klein takes a similar approach to another gender relevant issue: the apparent omnirelevance of gender. Feminist researchers often assume that gender is pervasive or omnipresent in our lives, it is relevant to all social interactions, relations and so on. In contrast to self categorization theory(SCT), then, discursive psychology provides an empirical approach to the categories that people use, how they use them, and where they are spontaneously used in interaction. SCT provides a theoretical and empirical approach to categories which aims to generalize establishing causal regularities.
