Analysing Citizenship Talk

Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes

Editors

Heiko Hausendorf | University of Bayreuth

Alfons Bora | University of Bielefeld

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Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes (‘citizen participation’). ‘Citizenship’ has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern societies is moaned about. Asking for citizenship to be conceived of as a communicative achievement, the present book shows that sociolinguistics and pragmatics can essentially contribute to this interdisciplinary up-to-date issue of research: the volume offers a theoretically innovative concept of communicated citizenship and it presents a set of methodological approaches suited to deal with this concept at an empirical level (including contributions from Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Positioning Theory, Speech Act Theory and Ethnography). Furthermore, concrete data and empirical analyses are provided which take up the case of decision-making processes around the application of modern ‘green’ biotechnology (‘GMO field trials’). The volume thus illustrates the kind of findings and results that can be expected from this new and promising approach towards citizenship talk.

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 19] 2006. viii, 368 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.19

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. vii

Introduction

Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora | pp. 1–19

PART I. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP AS RESEARCH SUBJECT

Communicating citizenship and social positioning: Theoretical concepts

Alfons Bora and Heiko Hausendorf | pp. 23–49

Licensing plant GMOs: A brief overview over European regulatory conditions for the deliberate release of genetically modified plants

Alfons Bora | pp. 50–60

Procedure and participation: A social theoretical assessment of GM licensing procedures in Ireland and the UK

Patrick O'Mahony and Siobhan O'Sullivan | pp. 61–82

PART II. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP AS A METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE

Reconstructing social positioning in discourse: Methodological basics and their implementation from a conversation analysis perspective

Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora | pp. 85–97

Critical Discourse Analysis and Citizenship

Norman Fairclough, Simon Pardoe and Bronislaw Szerszynski | pp. 98–123

A critical comparison of the investigative gaze of three approaches to text analysis

Tracey Skillington | pp. 124–150

Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction: Principles of a speech act oriented discourse analysis

Marina Sbisà | pp. 151–180

Communicative involvement in public discourse: Considerations on an ethnographic inventory and a proposal for the analysis of modes of citizenship

Thomas Spranz-Fogasy | pp. 181–195

PART III. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP IN DISCOURSE:EMPIRICAL ASPECTS

Opening up the public space: On the framing and re-framing of a discussion meeting about GMO field trials

Ingrid Furchner and Peter Münte | pp. 199–222

Personal reference, social categorisation and the communicative achievement of citizenship: Comments on a local public meeting on GMO field trials

Zsuzsanna Iványi, András Kertész, Kornélia Marinecz and Nóra Máté | pp. 223–250

Quotations as a vehicle for social positioning

Jana Holšánová | pp. 251–275

On doing being personal: Citizen talk as an identity-suspending device in public debates on GMOs

Henrike Padmos, Harrie Mazeland and Hedwig te Molder | pp. 276–295

APPENDIX

Data extracts from a local public meeting on GMO field trials | pp. 296–359

Index | pp. 361–368

“The book [...] provides valuable insights into citizenship talk, principally due to its multiple approach design. The reader can expect primarily methodological considerations of participatory discourse, drawing on a wide range of approaches in contemporary discourse studies.”

Petr Kaderka, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in Discourse Studies 10(5), 2008

“Findings presented in the book are relevant to anyone interested in political, social and cultural processes from a linguistic/discourse-analytic point of view. The book is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of research at the interface between linguistics and social sciences.”

Lelija Socanac, Law Faculty, University of Zagreb, Croatia, on Linguist List, Vol. 17.2396 (2006)

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