Publications

Publication details [#55096]

Merino, Maria Eugenia and Cristian Tileagă. 2011. The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action. Discourse & Society 22 (1) : 86–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | group interaction | identity negotiation | minority language | psycholinguistics

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on discursive psychology views, this study explores how ethnic minority Mapuche group members in modern Chilean society construct their ethnic identity via the flexible usage of group-distinguishing properties and features, categories and common-sense categorial knowledge.