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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hausendorf, H. (Heiko)

Bora, Alfons.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 19.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics.

Political participation.

Citizenship.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

vi, 368 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Analyzing citizenship talk

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

References

Licensing plant GMOs

The scientific debate about the regulation of green biotechnology

Citizen participation in licensing procedures on genetically modified organisms

Procedure and participation

Agriculture biotechnology:From innovation enthusiasm to caution

Theoretical reflections on procedures

Framing in procedures and the framing of procedures

II. Communicating citizenship as a methodological challenge

Reconstructing social positioning in discourse

Empirical reconstruction:the starting point

Social positioning as conversational work:tasks, means and forms

Conclusions

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

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

Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction

Outline of the proposed approach

Aspects of the communication of citizenship

Two problems to be expected in application

Communicative involvement in public discourse

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

III. Communicating citizenship in discourse

Opening up the public space

The invitation

The event

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

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

On doing being personal

Categorization and identity

Data and setting

Speaking 'as a citizen'

Being addressed as a citizen

The 'and also' quality of being a citizen

Conclusion

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612156090

9781282156098

1282156098

9789027293800

9027293805

OCLC:

191953013