Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction

✍ Scribed by Hansun Zhang Waring (editor), Nadja Tadic (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; 31
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/WARING5393
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Series Editors’ Preface
1 Introduction
Part 1 Reproducing Inequality and Injustice
2 Investigating Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Interaction
3 Racist Renditions: Mock Language in Interaction
4 Talk in Local News Broadcasts: Reinforcing Negative Views towards the Hawaiian Language
5 Inequality in Action: Granting Emergency Service Requests in a Highly Resource-Constrained Context
6 Delegitimizing the ‘Other’ at US Congressional Town Hall Meetings
Part 2 Resisting Inequality and Injustice
7 Negotiating Power Inequalities in Joint Decision-Making in a Faculty Meeting
8 I’m Just Saying: Being Explicit in a Mixed-Race Conversation about Racism
9 Using Racial Incompetence as a Comedic Device and Tacit Method of Anti-Racist Education
Part 3 A Final Argument
10 ‘Just a Method in Search of a Problem?’ The Power of Conversation Analysis
Index

✦ Subjects

Conversation Analysis; Inequality; Injustice