Identities in Talk

Charles Antaki is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is editor of Analyzing Everyday Explanation (SAGE, 1988). My primary interests, theoretical and empirical, are in self and identities, including personal and social identity and cultural variations in self-conception and individuality. I have participated in contemporary theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the concept of self and subjectivity and I am concerned to develop empirical approaches to understanding these complex issues. Further, related interests are in social groups, especially youth culture and subcultures; cross-cultural psychology and psychological anthropology; poststructuralism; and Arab identities. I also have an interest in language use, especially conversation and discourse analysis.

• Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool - Charles Antaki and Sue WiddicombePART ONE: SALIENCE AND THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITYThe Relevant Thing about Her - Derek EdwardsSocial Identity Categories in UseHow Gun Owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average - Andy McKinlay and Anne Dunnett`But You Don′t Class Yourself′ - Sue WiddicombeThe Interactional Management of Category Membership and Non-MembershipIdentity Ascriptions in Their Time and Place - Charles Antaki`Fagin′ and `The Terminally Dim′PART TWO: DISCOURSE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL IDENTITIESIdentity, Context and Interaction - Don ZimmermanMobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk - Robin Wooffitt and Colin ClarkTalk and Identity in Divorce Mediation - David Greatbatch and Robert DingwallPART THREE: MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND THEIR PRACTICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RELEVANCEDescribing `Deviance′ in School - Stephen HesterRecognizably Educational Psychological ProblemsBeing Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic Group - Dennis DayHandling `Incoherence′ According to the Speaker′s On-Sight Categorization - Isabella PaolettiPART FOUR: EPILOGUEIdentity as an Analysts′ and a Participants′ Resource - Sue Widdicombe