| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Transcription Notation -- Chapter 1 -- Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool -- Part I -- Salience and the Business of Identity -- Chapter 2 -- The Relevant Thing about Her: Social Identity Categories in Use -- Chapter 3 -- How Gun-Owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average -- Chapter 4 -- 'But You don't Class Yourself: The Interactional Management of Category Membership and Non-Membership -- Chapter 5 -- Identity Ascriptions in their Time and Place: 'Fagin' and 'the Terminally Dim' |
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Chapter 11 -- Handling 'Incoherence' According to the Speaker's On-Sight Categorization -- Part IV -- Epilogue -- Chapter 12 -- Identity as an Analysts' and a Participants' Resource -- References -- Index |
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Part II -- Discourse Identities and Social Identities -- Chapter 6 -- Identity, Context and Interaction -- Chapter 7 -- Mobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk -- Chapter 8 -- Talk and Identity in Divorce Mediation -- Part III -- Membership Categories and their Practical and Institutional Relevance -- Chapter 9 -- Describing 'Deviance' in School: Recognizably Educational Psychological Problems -- Chapter 10 -- Being Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic Group |
| Summary |
'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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Interpersonal communication.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology)
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Interpersonal communication.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Widdicombe, Susan
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| ISBN |
9781446264294 |
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1446264297 |
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