Critical Conversation Analysis - Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction

This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. The chapters produce a forensic analysis of how participants enact discriminatory ideologies, negotiate systemic power imbalances, and pursue social change in and through the nuances of their interactions.

About the author

Hansun Zhang Waring is Professor in the Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. She is the co-editor of Storytelling in Multilingual Settings: A Conversation Analytic Perspective (with J. Wong, Routledge, 2021).
Nadja Tadic is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA. Her research addresses issues of diversity, discrimination and social (in)justice through the lens of critically motivated conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis.

Summary

This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. The chapters produce a forensic analysis of how participants enact discriminatory ideologies, negotiate systemic power imbalances, and pursue social change in and through the nuances of their interactions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nadja Tadic (Editor), Hansun Zhang Waring (Editor), Waring Hansun Zhang (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781800415393
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-539-3
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice