Analysing citizenship talk : social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes / / edited by Heiko Hausendorf, Alfons Bora

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817891203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-15609-8; 9786612156090; 90-272-9380-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 368 p
• Collana: Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, , 1569-9463 ; ; v. 19
• Altri autori (Persone): HausendorfH (Heiko); BoraAlfons
• Disciplina: 320.01/4
• Soggetti: Communication in politics; Political participation; Citizenship; Discourse analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Analysing Citizenship Talk -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction -- Aims of the book -- Part I:Communicating citizenship as research subject -- Part II:Methodological aspects -- Part III: Empirical aspects -- Notes -- I. Communicating citizenship as research subject -- Communicating citizenship and social positioning -- Communicating citizenship in administrative decision-making procedures - the basic idea -- Governance and citizenship:The role of participation at scientific and technological crossroads -- Biotechnology governance and the "participatory turn" in the EU -- Participation and social positioning -- Procedure, procedural justice, and the form of decision-making -- Democratising expertise - A question of communicating citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Licensing plant GMOs -- The scientific debate about the regulation of green biotechnology -- Citizen participation in licensing procedures on genetically modified organisms -- References -- Procedure and participation -- Agriculture biotechnology:From ; innovation enthusiasm to caution -- Theoretical reflections on procedures -- Framing in procedures and the framing of procedures -- Notes -- References -- II. Communicating citizenship as a methodological challenge -- Reconstructing social positioning in discourse -- Introduction -- Empirical reconstruction:the starting point -- Social positioning as conversational work:tasks, means and forms -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Critical Discourse Analysis and Citizenship -- Researching citizenship -- Constructing the object of research -- A practical and theoretical framework for the analysis of participatory events -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- A critical comparison of the investigative gaze of three approaches to text analysis.; Observing the surface of discourse as truth:Schegloff's interpretation of conversation analysis -- Critical discourse analysis and its contribution to expanded fields of vision on the text -- The role of a distancing vision in Critical Discourse Analysis -- The importance of a 'multi-perspectivism' to social positioning theory's interpretations of discourse -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction -- Outline of the proposed approach -- Aspects of the communication of citizenship -- Two problems to be expected in application -- Notes -- References -- Communicative involvement in public discourse -- Introduction -- Ethnographic investigation of the field of discourse -- Communicative involvement and interactional profiles - Expansions of an analytic conception -- Approximations to discourse profiles in a meeting on the release of genetically manipulated plants -- General examples concerning other decision making procedures -- Final remarks:Proposals for the analysis of modes of citizenship -- Notes -- References -- III. Communicating citizenship in discourse -- Opening up the public space -- Introduction -- The invitation -- The event -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Personal reference, social categorization and the communicative achievement of citizenship -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 On social categorization -- 1.2 Methodological assumptions -- 1.3 The structure of the paper -- 2. Sequential analysis -- 2.1 Preliminary remarks -- 2.2 The opening statement of the chairwoman -- 2.3 The contribution of the representative of the national office, the BBA -- 2.4 The statement from the representative of a biofarm -- 2.5 The contribution of the deputy head of the local farming community, a conventional farmer -- 2.6 The professor's statement -- 2.7 The reception of the professor's contribution.; 3 The systematisation of the findings -- 3.1 Preliminary remarks -- 3.2 The linguistic means of social categorization -- 3.3 The reconstruction of the social categories -- 3.4 Social positions and their characteristics -- 4. Conclusions and open questions -- 4.1 Conclusions -- 4.2 Open questions -- Notes -- References -- Quotations as a vehicle Quotations as a vehicle for social positioning1 -- Quotations in private talks:Three methodological starting points -- Recent research on quotations -- Quotations in public debates -- Notes -- References -- On doing being personal -- Introduction -- Categorization and identity -- Data and setting -- Speaking 'as a citizen' -- Being addressed as a citizen -- The 'and also' quality of being a citizen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Data extracts from a local public meeting on GMO field trials -- Transcription and notations -- Reproduction of the Invitation Leaflet -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 to be conceived of 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.