Identities in Talk

Identities in Talk

Identities in Talk

Identities in Talk

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Overview

‘Identity' attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debates. Theory abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture. However, there is considerably less investigation into how such identity issues appear in the fine grain of everyday life.

This book gathers together, in a collection of chapters drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, arguments which show that identities are constructed ‘live' in the actual exchange of talk. By closely examining tapes and transcripts of real social interactions from a wide range of situations, the volume explores just how it is that a person can be ascribed to a category and what features about that category are cons


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761950615
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 10/15/1998
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Charles Antaki is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is editor of Analyzing Everyday Explanation (SAGE, 1988).

My primary interests, theoretical and empirical, are in self and identities, including personal and social identity and cultural variations in self-conception and individuality. I have participated in contemporary theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the concept of self and subjectivity and I am concerned to develop empirical approaches to understanding these complex issues. Further, related interests are in social groups, especially youth culture and subcultures; cross-cultural psychology and psychological anthropology; poststructuralism; and Arab identities. I also have an interest in language use, especially conversation and discourse analysis.

Table of Contents

Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool - Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe
PART ONE: SALIENCE AND THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITY
The Relevant Thing about Her - Derek Edwards
Social Identity Categories in Use
How Gun Owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average - Andy Mc Kinlay and Anne Dunnett
‘But You Don't Class Yourself' - Sue Widdicombe
The Interactional Management of Category Membership and Non-Membership
Identity Ascriptions in Their Time and Place - Charles Antaki
‘Fagin' and ‘The Terminally Dim'
PART TWO: DISCOURSE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES
Identity, Context and Interaction - Don Zimmerman
Mobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk - Robin Wooffitt and Colin Clark
Talk and Identity in Divorce Mediation - David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall
PART THREE: MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND THEIR PRACTICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RELEVANCE
Describing ‘Deviance' in School - Stephen Hester
Recognizably Educational Psychological Problems
Being Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic Group - Dennis Day
Handling ‘Incoherence' According to the Speaker's On-Sight Categorization - Isabella Paoletti
PART FOUR: EPILOGUE
Identity as an Analysts' and a Participants' Resource - Sue Widdicombe
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