Publications

Publication details [#39311]

Gordon, Cynthia. 2004. ‘Al Gore’s our Guy’: Linguistically Constructing a Family Political Identity. Discourse & Society 15 (5) : 607–631.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | identity negotiation | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how an American family linguistically and collaboratively constructs a family political identity as Democrats and Al Gore supporters during the week of the 2000 American presidential election.