Identities in Talk

235 Pages·1998·12.73 MB·English

by  Charles Antaki

Identities in Talk

Identities in Talk
edited by
Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe
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Chapter 1 © Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe 1998
Chapter 2 © Derek Edwards 1998
Chapter 3 © Andy McKinlay and Anne Dunnett 1998
Chapter 4 © Sue Widdicombe 1998
Chapter 5 © Charles Antaki 1998
Chapter 6 © Don H. Zimmerman 1998
Chapter 7 © Robin Wooffitt and Colin Clark 1998
Chapter 8 © David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall 1998
Chapter 9 © Stephen Hester 1998
Chapter 10 © Dennis Day 1998
Chapter 11 © Isabella Paoletti 1998
Chapter 12 © Sue Widdicombe 1998
First published 1998
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ISBN: 978-0-7619-5060-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5061-5 (pbk)
Library of Congress catalog card number 98-060740
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Contents
Contributors vii
Transcription Notation viii
1 Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool 1
Charles hntaki and Sue Widdicombe
Part I Salience and the Business of Identity 15
2 The Relevant Thing about Her: Social Identity Categories in
Use 15
Derek Edwards
3 How Gun-owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average 34
Andy McKinlay and Anne Dunnett
4 'But You Don't Class Yourself: The Interactional Management
of Category Membership and Non-membership 52
Sue VJiddicornbe
5 Identity Ascriptions in their Time and Place: 'Fagin' and The
Terminally Dim' 71
Charles Antaki
Part II Discourse Identities and Social Identities 87
6 Identity, Context and Interaction 87
Don H. Zimmerman
7 Mobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk 107
Robin Wooffitt and Colin Clark
8 Talk and Identity in Divorce Mediation 121
David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall
Part III Membership Categories and their Practical and
Institutional Relevance 133
9 Describing 'Deviance' in School: Recognizably Educational
Psychological Problems 133
Stephen Hester
vi Identities in Talk
10 Being Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic
Group 151
Dennis Day
11 Handling 'Incoherence' According to the Speaker's On-sight
Categorization 171
Isabella Paoletti
PART IV Epilogue 191
12 Identity as an Analysts' and a Participants' Resource 191
Sue Widdicombe
References 207
Index 219
Contributors
Charles Antaki is at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough
University, England. Email: [email protected]
Colin Clark is at the Surrey European Management School, Surrey
University, England. Email: [email protected]
Dennis Day is at the Centre for Cultural Contact and International Migra-
tion (RIM), Göteborg University, Sweden. Email: [email protected]
Robert Dingwall is at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy,
Nottingham University, England. Email: [email protected]
Anne Dunnett is at the Moray House Institute, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Derek Edwards is at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough
University, England. Email: [email protected]
David Greatbatch is at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy,
Nottingham University, England. Email: david.greatbatch@nottingham.
ac.uk
Stephen Hester is at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University
of Wales, Bangor, Wales. Email: [email protected]
Andy McKinlay is at the Department of Psychology, University of
Edinburgh, Scotland. Email: [email protected]
Isabella Paoletti is at the Social and Economic Research Department,
INRCA, Ancona, Italy. Email: [email protected]
Sue Widdicombe is at the Department of Psychology, University of
Edinburgh, Scotland. Email: [email protected]
Robin Wooffitt is at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey,
England. Email: [email protected]
Don H. Zimmerman is at the Department of Sociology, University of
California, Santa Barbara, USA. Email: [email protected]
Transcription Notation
The transcription symbols used in this book are an attempt to capture
something of the sound of the talk as it was originally spoken. There is
some variety among contributors, both in the fine-grainedness of their
transcription, and in the notation symbols they use. All symbols, however,
derive from those developed by Gail Jefferson (see Atkinson and Heritage,
1984: ix-xvi).
(.) The shortest hearable pause, less than about 0.2 of a second
(..) (...) Approximately timed pauses: half a second and one
second respectively
(0.3) (2 sees) Examples of exactly timed pauses
*hh, hh Speaker's in-breath and out-breath respectively
hehh, hahh Laughter syllables with some attempt to capture 'colour
wo(h)rd (h) denotes 'laughter' within words
((sniff)) A description enclosed in double brackets indicates a non-
speech sound
cu- A dash denotes a sharp cut-off of a prior word or sound
lo:ng Colons show that the speaker has stretched the preceding
letter or sound. The more colons the greater the extent of
the stretching
(word) Material within brackets represents the transcriber's guess
at an unclear part of the tape
(syll syll) Unclear speech rendered as approximations to number of
syllables
( ) Unclear speech or noise to which no approximation is made
run= 'Equals' signs link material that runs on
=on
jword Arrows indicate the onset of a rising or falling intona-
jword tional shift
? Indicates a rising tone
Indicates a 'natural' ending
, Indicates a comma-like pause
under Underlining indicates emphasis
CAPITALS Capital letters indicate speech noticeably louder than that
surrounding it
°soft° Degree signs indicate speech spoken noticeably more
quietly than the surrounding talk. Double degree signs
indicate greater softness
Transcription Notation ix
>fast< 'Greater than' and 'less than' signs indicate that the talk
<slow> they encompass was produced noticeably quicker or
slower than the surrounding talk
over [lap Square brackets between adjacent lines of concurrent
[overlap speech denote the start of overlapping talk
Side arrow indicates point of special interest in the extract,
addressed in the text
[-] Indicates that material has been left out of the extract
[high pitch] Material in square brackets indicates transcriber's
commentary