1st Edition
Language, Interaction and National Identity Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity in Talk-in-Interaction
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary political and public discourse has come alive with the issues and conflicts surrounding questions of national identity. Despite the widespread sociological attention it has drawn as a result, most studies of national identity have been conducted at considerable analytical distance from the lived reality of national identity talk. This collection brings together the work of... Read more
Contents: Ethnomethodology and national identity: an introduction, Stephen Hester and William Housley; Bringing it all back home: selecting topic, category and location in TV news programmes, Stephen Hester; National identity, categorization and debate, William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald; On dialogical networks: arguments about the migration law in Czech mass media in 1993, JiriÃNekvapil and Ivan Leudar; Symbolic power and collective identifications, Jean Widmer; ’Japanese American’ identity and the problem of multiple description: disjunctive versions of the Japanese Exclusion Order, Tim J. Berard; National identity in interaction: the Argentine case, Wolfgang Kesselheim; ’National identity’ as a rhetorical resource, Mark Rapley and Martha Augoustinos; The category ’Moroccan’ in a multi-ethnic class, Tom Koole and Myléne Hanson; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Stephen Hester, William Housley
