Date: 16-Mar-2006 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Analysing Citizenship Talk: Hausendorf, Bora (Eds)
Title: Analysing Citizenship Talk Subtitle: Social Positioning in Political and Legal Decision-Making Processes Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 19
Editor: Heiko Hausendorf, Bayreuth University Editor: Alfons Bora, University of Bielefeld
Hardback: ISBN: 9027227098 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 144.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027227098 Pages: 368 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Abstract:
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 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.
Table of contents
Foreword vii
Introduction Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora 1-19
PART I. COMMUNICATING CITIZENSHIP AS RESEARCH SUBJECT Communicating citizenship and social positioning: Theoretical concepts Alfons Bora and Heiko Hausendorf 23-49
Licensing plant GMOs: A brief overview over European regulatory conditions for the deliberate release of genetically modified plants Alfons Bora 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 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 85-97
Critical Discourse Analysis and Citizenship Norman L. Fairclough, Simon Pardoe and Bronislaw Szerszynski 98-123
A critical comparison of the investigative gaze of three approaches to text analysis Tracey Skillington 124-150
Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction: Principles of a speech act oriented discourse analysis Marina Sbisà 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 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 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 223-250
Quotations as a vehicle for social positioning Jana Hol?ánová 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 276-295
APPENDIX Data extracts from a local public meeting on GMO field trials 296-359
Index 361-368
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis Pragmatics Sociolinguistics
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