Publications
Publication details [#54845]
Smith, Wendy and Zvi Bekerman. 2011. Constructing social identity: Silence and argument in an Arab-Jewish Israeli group encounter. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (6) : 1675–1688. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This conversation analytic study examines how participants in a Jewish-Arab Israeli intergroup encounter cooperate to accomplish their respective social identities, through the development of argument and the strategic use of silence, deployed by members of both groups to restore power symmetry.