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SAGE PUBLISHING Identities In Talk by Antaki
`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 consequential for the interaction. Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool - Charles Antaki and Sue WiddicombePART ONE: SALIENCE AND THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITYThe Relevant Thing about Her - Derek EdwardsSocial Identity Categories in UseHow Gun Owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average - Andy McKinlay and Anne Dunnett`But You Don't Class Yourself' - Sue WiddicombeThe Interactional Management of Category Membership and Non-MembershipIdentity Ascriptions in Their Time and Place - Charles Antaki`Fagin' and `The Terminally Dim'PART TWO: DISCOURSE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL IDENTITIESIdentity, Context and Interaction - Don ZimmermanMobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk - Robin Wooffitt and Colin ClarkTalk and Identity in Divorce Mediation - David Greatbatch and Robert DingwallPART THREE: MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND THEIR PRACTICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RELEVANCEDescribing `Deviance' in School - Stephen HesterRecognizably Educational Psychological ProblemsBeing Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic Group - Dennis DayHandling `Incoherence' According to the Speaker's On-Sight Categorization - Isabella PaolettiPART FOUR: EPILOGUEIdentity as an Analysts' and a Participants' Resource - Sue Widdicombe