Full Description
This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. It offers a broad depiction of how inequality and injustice are reproduced, resisted and transformed in our daily life; together 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. The authors draw on audio and video recordings of interaction in a wide range of social settings, ranging from classrooms to family dinners, and political town halls to television sitcoms. The book demonstrates the power of conversation analysis to tackle issues of social (in)justice and (in)equality and launches critical conversation analysis as a distinct empirical program dedicated to systematically investigating and promoting inclusion and equity in the minute details of everyday interaction.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Series Editors' Preface
Chapter 1. Nadja Tadic and Hansun Zhang Waring: Introduction
Part 1: Reproducing Inequality and Injustice
Chapter 2. Nadja Tadic, Hansun Zhang Waring and Elizabeth Reddington: Investigating Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Interaction
Chapter 3. Elliott M. Hoey and Chase Wesley Raymond: Racist Renditions: Mock Language in Interaction
Chapter 4. Scott Saft: Talk in Local News Broadcasts: Reinforcing Negative Views towards the Hawaiian Language
Chapter 5. Catherine L. Tam, Kevin A. Whitehead and Geoffrey Raymond: Inequality in Action: Granting Emergency Service Requests in a Highly Resource-Constrained Context
Chapter 6. Di Yu: Delegitimizing the 'Other' at US Congressional Town Hall Meetings
Part 2: Resisting Inequality and Injustice
Chapter 7. Innhwa Park and Santoi Wagner: Negotiating Power Inequalities in Joint Decision-Making in a Faculty Meeting
Chapter 8. Sarah Chepkirui Creider: I'm Just Saying: Being Explicit in a Mixed-Race Conversation about Racism
Chapter 9. Lillian Cheeks and Kevin A. Whitehead: Using Racial Incompetence as a Comedic Device and Tacit Method of Anti-Racist Education
Part 3: A Final Argument
Chapter 10. Elizabeth Stokoe and Saul Albert: 'Just a Method in Search of a Problem?' The Power of Conversation Analysis
Index
