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2014
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(2014): Contextualizing from Within. Perceptions of Physical Disorder in a South Central L.A. African American Mosque. In: City & Community 13 (3), S. 214-232. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12078
Abstract: Physical disorder is fundamental to how urban sociologists understand the inner workings of a neighborhood. This article takes advantage of ethnographic and historical research to understand how, over time, participants in an urban mosque in South Central Los Angeles develop patterns of meaning-making and decision-making about physical disorder. I examine how specific negative physical conditions on the property came to exist as well as the varied processes by which they changed both improving and worsening over the community's long history. Contrary to dominant social disorganization and broken windows theories that argue disorder is always a destructive force, I find that members saw specific signs of physical disorder as links to their collective past as well as placeholders for a future they hoped to construct. I then analyze how these shared imaginings shaped the ways members responded to physical problems in the present. The strength of this contextualizing from within approach is that attention to context and period allows researchers to better theorize why communities may or may not organize to repair physical disorder.
2010
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(2010): Identity and impoliteness in computer-mediated reader responses. In: Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture 6 (1), S. 105-127. DOI: 10.1515/jplr.2010.006
Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between linguistic impoliteness and identity in computer-mediated communication through the examination of reader responses to ideas and views expressed by professional journalists in the online media. The study finds that respondents may use linguistic impoliteness strategically to communicate disagreements, to argue against an out-group's ideological views, or to discredit ideological opponents. The analysis of reader responses within a social psychological theory of identity indicates that the use of impoliteness is linked to the respondent :c identification of him/herself with a group and its ideological position and his/her willingness to act toward the achievement of a goal desired within that group.
Keywords: Art des Kommunikationsmediums, Disziplin, doppelter Treffer, Good manners, Höflichkeit, Identität, Identitätsstiftung, Ideologische Identität, Im (wissenschaftlichen) Diskurs, Linguistik, Mediationstheorie, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Reflexionen über MTR, Situationsbedingter Kontext, Soziale Angemessenheit, Status / biologische Marker, (Theory of) technological mediation 2009
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(2009): Impoliteness and identity in the American news media. The “Culture Wars”. In: Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture 5 (2). DOI: 10.1515/JPLR.2009.014
Abstract: This paper argues that identity theory can be a useful analytical tool for the scholar of relational work (Locher and Watts 2005). By focusing oil current news interviews broadcast in the USA, it shows how impoliteness is inextricably linked to the (co) construction of the identity of the hosts, the guests and the audience of an emergent "new" news genre; news as confrontation (Garces-Conejos Blitvich 2007, forthcoming). Impoliteness is defined as a negative identity practice (Bucholtz 1999) used by the hosts to position themselves within their own community of practice. Applying Anton and Peterson's (2003) model of subject positions, an alternative definition is proposed that posits that impoliteness - and confrontation - may ensue when there is a mismatch between self asserted subject positions, i. e., the positions we temporarily choose to assume, and other asserted subject positions, i. e., the positions that others impose on us. By challenging our self asserted subject positions, the view of the world that comes along with them is questioned as well. Impoliteness is also used to forge the collective identity of one of the factions, here identified with the target audience of shows included in the study, currently waging the "Culture Wars". This metaphor has long been used to claim that political conflict within the USA is due to a conflict between "traditional" and "progressive" values.
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