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Identities in Talk Identities in Talk edited by Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe ($)SAGE 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 Reprinted 2006, 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd. 1 Oliver's Yard 55 City Road London EC 1Y ISP SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. Bl/I 1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area Mathura Road, New Delhi 110 044 India SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd 33 Pekin Street #02-01 Far East Square Singapore 048763 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-7619-5060-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-7619-5061-5 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog card number 98-060740 Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Rhayader, Powys Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press Ltd., Gateshead, Tyne & Wear 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
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