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

This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. 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.

Author: Hansun Zhang Waring
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781800415386

About the Author

Hansun Zhang Waring is Professor in the Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. She is founder of LANSI (The Language and Social Interaction Working Group) and the co-editor of Storytelling in Multilingual Settings: A Conversation Analytic Perspective (with J. Wong, Routledge, 2021).

Nadja Tadic is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA. Her research addresses issues of diversity, discrimination and social (in)justice through the lens of critically motivated conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis.