Language, Interaction and National Identity: Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity in Talk-In-Interaction

ISBN-13: 9781138258112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Stephen Hester; William Housley

Opis

Employing a previously neglected perspective on the construction and communication of national identity, this book addresses the lived reality of these identities and explores the level of situated talk and interaction in which they are actually expressed and used.

Spis treści

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, JiriíNekvapil 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.

O autorze

Stephen Hester, William Housley