Analysing Citizenship Talk
Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes
Editors
| University of Bayreuth
| University of Bielefeld
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Foreword
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vii
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1–19
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PART I. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP AS RESEARCH SUBJECT
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23–49
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50–60
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61–82
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PART II. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP AS A METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
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85–97
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98–123
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124–150
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151–180
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181–195
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PART III. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP IN DISCOURSE:EMPIRICAL ASPECTS
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199–222
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223–250
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251–275
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276–295
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APPENDIX
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Data extracts from a local public meeting on GMO field trials
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296–359
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Index
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361–368
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“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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Subjects
Communication Studies
Sociology
BIC Subject: GTC – Communication studies
BISAC Subject: LAN004000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies