Analysing citizenship talk social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes (John Benjamins, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Analysing Citizenship Talk; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I. Communicating citizenship as research subject; Communicating citizenship and social positioning; Licensing plant GMOs; Procedure and participation; II. Communicating citizenship as a methodological challenge; Reconstructing social positioning in discourse; Critical Discourse Analysis and Citizenship; A critical comparison of the investigative gaze of three approaches to text analysis; Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction; Communicative involvement in public discourse
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 communi