Language, Interaction and National Identity: Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity in Talk-in-Interaction (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research) - Hardcover

Hester, Stephen; Housley, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754615839 ISBN 13: 9780754615835

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

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 contemporary researchers, situating the talk and interaction in which national identities are actually expressed and used. The book presents detailed investigations of how persons actually use national identity in their talk, the interactional uses to which such expressions are put, and the interactional consequences of such identity talk. The studies are based on transcribed tape recordings of naturally occurring talk across a variety of different countries and settings, illuminating not only situated national identity talk as a phenomenon in its own right, but also providing empirically grounded research for traditional sociological theorising about issues of integration, devolution and exclusion.

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Stephen Hester, Bangor University, UK and William Housley, Cardiff University, UK Contributors: Stephen Hester, William Housley, Richard Fitzgerald, Jirii Nekvapil, Ivan Leudar, Jean Widmer, Tim J. Berard, Wolfgang Kesselheim, Mark Rapley, Martha Augoustinos, Tom Koole, Mylene Hanson.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754615839
• ISBN 13: 9780754615835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260