Displaying Social Identity and (Re)Positioning Oneself in Interaction
| Number: | P76 |
| Organizer: | Sorjonen, Marja-Leena |
| Co-Organizer: | Mia Halonen |
| Abstract: | |
| This panel explores ways in which the participants display social identities and (re)position themselves and their co-participants in the on-going interaction. On the one hand, we investigate linguistic variation (e.g. switching from one language or one variety of a language to another) as a resource for (re)positioning and identity work. On the other hand, we analyze (re)positionings that are done by using explicit category terms (e.g. ‘Russian’, ‘city kid’). Of interest is the interactional functions of indexing membership or non-membership in a social group and the affiliative and disaffiliative character of such indexing. The questions to be addressed include: * What kinds of verbal and non-verbal features (and clusters of features) do participants use as a resource for indexing social identities and (re)positioning themselves in interaction? Are some features especially salient? * What are the activities and actions like where the displays of social identity and positioning oneself occur? Do such displays cluster in certain kinds of actions? * In which ways and to what extent is a certain type of display of social identity (e.g. switching from one variety to another; using a category term) related to the action done by the turn? * How are these actions of displaying social identity and (re)positioning co-constructed and responded to in interaction? |
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