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  • 2018

  • Robey, Suzanne (2018): On the social appropriateness of discrimination

    Abstract: We experimentally investigate the relationship between discriminatory behaviour and the perceived social appropriateness of discrimination. We test the framework of Akerlof and Kranton (2000,2005), which suggests discrimination will be stronger when social norms favour it. Our results support this prediction. Using a Krupka-Weber social norm elicitation task, we find participants perceive it to be more socially appropriate to discriminate on the basis of social identities artificially induced, using a trivial minimal group technique, than on the basis of nationality. Correspondingly, we find that participants discriminate more in the artificial identity setting. Our results suggest norms and the preference to comply with them affect discriminatory decisions and that the social inappropriateness of discrimination can be a moderator of discriminatory behaviour.

  • 2017

  • Abels, Heinz (2017): Identität. Über die Entstehung des Gedankens, dass der Mensch ein Individuum ist, den nicht leicht zu verwirklichenden Anspruch auf Individualität und Kompetenzen, Identität in einer riskanten Moderne zu finden und zu wahren. 3., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage. Wiesbaden: Springer VS

    Abstract: Individualität, Kampf um Aufmerksamkeit, Mode und Lebensstil -- Identität, sich mit den Augen der Anderen sehen, Außenleitung, dramatische Auftritte im Alltag und der Zwang der Verhältnisse -- Krise der Lebenswelt und der Identität in der Moderne, Kompetenzen, bewegliches Denken und Mut Das Lehrbuch stellt im ersten Teil die gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Bedingungen dar, dass der Mensch sich bewusst wurde, ein Individuum zu sein, und es liefert soziologische Erklärungen, wie er seine Individualität zum Ausdruck bringt. Im zweiten Teil wird die Frage nach der Identität in der fortgeschrittenen Moderne nach folgenden Unterfragen behandelt: Wie sind wir geworden, was wir sind? Welcher Kompetenzen bedarf es, um eine Balance zwischen unseren individuellen Ansprüchen und sozialen Erwartungen zu finden? Für die dritte Auflage wurden alle Kapitel aktualisiert. Um die Lektüre zu erleichtern, wurde gleich am Anfang ein neues Kapitel „Überblick und Zusammenfassung“ eingefügt. Der zweite Teil des Lehrbuches wurde neu gegliedert und um ein Kapitel „Autonomie des Subjekts in und gegen Rollen, Ich-Identität“ erweitert. Der Inhalt • Individualität, Kampf um Aufmerksamkeit, Mode und Lebensstil • Identität, sich mit den Augen der Anderen sehen, Außenleitung, dramatische Auftritte im Alltag und der Zwang der Verhältnisse • Krise der Lebenswelt und der Identität in der Moderne, Kompetenzen, bewegliches Denken und Mut Die Zielgruppen • Studierende der Soziologie, der Pädagogik, der Psychologie und der Sozialarbeit • Studierende aus Studiengängen für das Lehramt und für erziehende Berufe • Alle, die schon immer an Antworten auf die oben genannten Fragen interessiert waren Der Autor Dr. Dr. Heinz Abels, em. Univ.-Professor am Institut für Soziologie an der FernUniversität in Hagen

  • Iversen, Stefan (2017): Narratives and Online Decorum. The Rhetoric of Mark Zuckerberg's Personal Storytelling on Facebook. In: STYLE 51 (3), S. 374-390. DOI: 10.1353/sty.2017.0031

    Abstract: The article ties in with and attempts to further interests in the - rhetorical aspects of personal storytelling by examining what is taken to be a pervasive yet understudied form of purposeful storytelling. The overall aim is to investigate how the narration of intimate biographical events may be used to influence or mold matters of decorum or appropriate behavior. Through close reading of the use of narratives in a Facebook post by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the article argues for the potential meta-decorous nature of such posts; in addition to their private content, they are about what posting is or should be, and therefore also about what it may be, or should mean, to be someone posting on Facebook. Consequently, these personal stories are read as peculiar amalgamations of the personal, the strategic, and the moral.

  • Krippendorff, Klaus (2017): Monologic versus Dialogic Distinctions of Selves. In: CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS (13/1), S. 18-21

    Abstract: This commentary contrasts the monologic accounts of self-reference pursued in Kauffman's target article with natural language notions of referring to one's self, drawing distinctions, and constructing identities collaboratively. It suggests that mathematical calculi, which assume the perspective of observers, are fundamentally incapable of accounting for how the selves of interactively involved participants in social systems come to be. It questions the claim that a mathematical notion of "self" can shed light on the being of humans and argues for dialogical distinctions of identities. Finally, it suggests that publishing and enacting monological conceptions of selves can have undesirable social consequences.

  • Zakaria, Ingie (2017): Translating the FAITH Frame. A Study of Two Translated Egyptian Novels. In: Complutense Journal of English Studies 25, S. 125-142. DOI: 10.5209/CJES.57598

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CJES.57598 

    Abstract: This study, which is part of a larger study on the use of frame semantics in the translation of cultural elements from Arabic into English, isolates the instances where the characters from two modern Egyptian novels use language to identify themselves as members of a particular religious group, which corresponds to the frame generic→faith, and examines the manner in which these instances are translated into English. In this sense, faith is a generic frame because it dictates a particular set of behaviors, both linguistic and ideological, that is enforced by the faith community and practiced by the individuals within it. This faith community is a subset of the language community that uses a set of expressions considered typical of this community to the point where its members are recognizable through the use of these expressions. The translation issue at hand is that the TL may not offer the same possibilities to evoke a similar frame reflecting religious identity.

  • 2015

  • Sedmak, Mateja; Zadel, Maja (2015): (MIXED) CULTURAL IDENTITIES: CONSTRUCTION AND DEKONSTRUCTION. In: Annales - Anali za Istrske in Mediteranske Studije - Series Historia et Sociologia

    Abstract: The paper is based on two presuppositions, namely that identity (as understood in the western philosophical tradition) as well as cultural identity that derives from the former are both social constructs, which were formed in specific socio-historical conditions. Accordingly, (mono) cultural identity as such is a "fiction" that demands constant reification, i.e. maintenance and legitimization by the ideological state apparatuses. And the second presupposition is that the omnipresence and prevalence of the discourse of culturally homogeneous and monocultural identifications is misleading. To that end, several empirical studies are presented in which the authors are trying to demonstrate the omnipresence of transcultural and culturally mixed identities. At the same time, they argue that we as individuals are used to think within the frames of culturally homogeneous nationalistic categories that are implicitly as well as explicitly transmitted by all main socialization agents of the contemporary social systems. The paper points out that special attention to the contextuality in the interpretations of cultural and ethnic (self-)identifications must be taken into account. The informants' statements imply that the culturally mixed/monocultural identities must be understood in the context of the existing social order, within which the monoethnic identity is still the prevailing norm and thus the monoethnic paradigm is encouraged and reified. As we are trapped in the existing notions and consequently "used to think" monoethnically and exclusively, many individuals do not recognise and reflect their actual ethnic and cultural mixedness, they overlook it or do not know how to express it. (Cultural) Identity, as other social phenomena, does not exist in a social vacuum; it is produced and reproduced by the agents and institutions of power and influence, state-making and nationalistic processes. This is the reason why the apparent, illusory and evident existence of homogeneous self-identifications should not be taken easily In their reflections about the influence of hegemonic national(istic) power the authors claim, that we are actually all, to some extent, mixed even though not all of us might know how to grasp this mixedness.

  • 2013

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar (2013): Introduction. Face, identity and im/politeness. Looking backward, moving forward: From Goffman to practice theory. In: Journal of Politeness Research 9 (1), S. 1-33. DOI: 10.1515/pr-2013-0001

    Abstract: The field of linguistic politeness has of late experienced a renewed interest in conceptualizations of one of its core concepts, face. Since the publication of Brown and Levinson’s formative paper in 1978 and the subsequent application of its tenets, politeness scholars, mainly Asian and non-Anglo, have raised concerns regarding the suitability of Brown and Levinson’s conceptualization of face to their respective cultures (Wierzbicka 1985; Matsumoto 1988; Ide 1989; Gu 1990; Nwoye 1992; Mao 1994). Different options were put forth to solve what was seen by many as a fundamental flaw of the model, from culture-specific reconceptualizations (Sifianou 1992; Strecker 1993; Bravo 1999) to elaborations (O’Driscoll 1996; Terkourafi 2008) or simplifications (Bousfield 2008). Some (Bargiela-Chiappini 2003; Locher and Watts 2005), have argued for a return to the Goffmanian essence of face. Yet, others, Arundale (2006, 2009, 2010), have posited new approaches to face inspired by more current models of communication based on the dyad and on social constructionist premises or have come up with discursive accounts of face (O’Driscoll 2011, Sifianou 2011). Furthermore, there seems to be a consensus that to come to grips with an understanding of face, it has to be studied on its own right, aside from politeness (Bargiela Chiappini and Haugh 2009; Haugh and Bargiela-Chiappini 2010). This renewed interest in face has coincided with the advent, albeit with some delay, of the discursive turn within politeness scholarship. The discursive turn refers to the strong trend that emerged toward the end of the 20th century to reconfigure the subject as something socio-cultural and socio-historical: an unfinished product of discourse (Benwell and Stokoe 2006). Its impact on im/politeness scholarship has been manifold. Among the many effects, it has had important repercussions for the relationship between face and identity, the focus of this special issue.

  • Georgakopoulou, Alexandra (2013): Small stories and identities analysis as a framework for the study of im/politeness-in-interaction. In: Journal of Politeness Research 9 (1), S. 55-74. DOI: 10.1515/pr-2013-0003

    Abstract: Although (socio)linguistic studies of im/politeness and identities present many parallels in their disciplinary trajectories, not least the shift toward interactional approaches, there is still scope and need for bringing the two traditions together and fruitfully exploring their intersections in method and analysis. In this paper, I put forth a proposal for studying im/politeness-in-interaction on the basis of small stories as a framework for narrative and identity analysis. My analysis shows how focusing on the stories' ways of telling, sites, and tellers and drawing on the concept of positioning sheds light on the tellers' management of particular im/politeness norms in the uses of and behavior in new media sites. I show how im/politeness and identities construction are interwoven in such cases.

  • 2012

  • Schechtman, Marya (2012): The Story of my (Second) Life. Virtual Worlds and Narrative Identity. In: Philosophy & Technology 25 (3), S. 329-343. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-012-0062-y

    Abstract: A small but significant number of residents of Second Life (SL) insist that SL is as real to them as Real Life (RL) and that their SL avatars are as much themselves as their offscreen selves. This paper investigates whether this claim can be literally true in any philosophically interesting way. Using a narrative account of personal identity I argue that there is a way of understanding these identity claims according to which the actions and experiences of the offscreen user and the online avatar are indeed actions and experiences of a single person. In the course of describing how this is so, the paper also uncovers new insights into how a narrative approach to personal identity should be structured and developed.

  • 2010

  • Bedorf, Thomas (2010): Verkennende Anerkennung. Über Identität und Politik. Orig.-Ausg., 1. Aufl.. Berlin: Suhrkamp (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft)
  • Upadhyay, Shiv R. (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.

  • van den Berg, Bibi (2010): I-Object. In: Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14 (3), S. 207-225. DOI: 10.5840/techne201014322

    Abstract: In this article, I will investigate the ways in which Ambient Intelligence, the technological paradigm of the near future proposed by the European Union and the electronics multinational Philips, will affect the ways in which individuals construct and express their identities. The Ambient Intelligence vision predicts a world in which technologies will deliver personalized services in a proactive (rather than a responsive or interactive) fashion. I argue that this brings about a change in the way we interact with these technologies, which in turn has an effect on the way we construct and express identities in relation to such technologies. In a world of Ambient Intelligence, I will argue in this article, technological artifacts may come to function as ‘reference collectivities’, comparable to human reference groups. Due to their proactivity, their level of autonomy and self-reliance and our personalized interactions with them, these technologies will come to function as ‘others’, rather than as ‘quasi-others’.

  • 2009

  • Blitvich, Pilar Garcés-Conejos (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.

  • 2007

  • Graham, Sage Lambert (2007): Disagreeing to agree. Conflict, (im)politeness and identity in a computer-mediated community. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 742-759. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.017

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.017 

    Abstract: Recent research on politeness has attempted to re-examine the seminal work of Brown and Levinson (1987) and refine the framework to be more applicable to a wider variety of circumstances (Watts, 2003; Spencer-Oatey, 2005). Although, as Locher (2004) notes, there have been several empirical studies building on Brown and Levinson's (1987) framework of politeness, there are relatively few studies which explore the dynamics of these newer models in empirical research. This empirical study addresses this gap by exploring how expectations of (im)politeness are negotiated within an e-mail community. Examination of the communicative practices indicate that, in this e-community, the norms for interaction within the community of practice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 1999; Lavé and Wenger, 1991; Holmes and Meyerhoff, 1999) merge with the norms of (polite) interaction within the computer medium to create a unique set of expectations for what constitutes polite behavior in a computer-mediated setting. Deviation from these norms frequently results in conflict, but the (active) negotiation of norms of politeness in this community of practice, or C of P (through conflict) give group members an opportunity to (re)negotiate the group identity.

  • Hatipoğlu, Çiler (2007): (Im)politeness, national and professional identities and context. Some evidence from e-mailed ‘Call for Papers’. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 760-773. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.014

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.014 

    Abstract: This study aims to uncover whether or not factors such as national and professional identities and the medium of interaction (i.e., e-mails), affect the way Turkish and British conference organisers begin their Call for Papers for international conferences (CFPIC), and when and how they use inclusive ‘we’ pronouns in messages written in English. The survey also examines if there is a relationship between these three factors and the interpretation of (im)politeness by comparing whether or not writers with different cultural backgrounds, while trying to reach their aim (i.e., collect conference papers), (dis)obey some of the politeness rules proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The corpus for this study consisted of e-mailed CFPIC collected between January 2002 and February 2006. CFPIC were related to areas such as linguistics, foreign/second language education and literature. The findings of the research suggest intricate and dynamic relations between a number of the micro- and macro-contextual factors, and some features of e-mails in English written by members of Turkish and British cultures. It is hoped that the results of this study will contribute to enhancing knowledge in the field of politeness and electronic communication, raising awareness of the relationship between cultural and professional identities and the interpretation of (im)politeness, thus providing valuable insights into intercultural communication conventions.

  • Ruhi, Şükriye; Işık-Güler, Hale (2007): Conceptualizing face and relational work in (im)politeness. Revelations from politeness lexemes and idioms in Turkish. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 681-711. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.013

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.013 

    Abstract: This article addresses two issues: the conceptualization of face and related aspects of self in Turkish, and the implications of the conceptualization of face and the self in interaction in Turkish for understanding relational work at the emic and the etic levels. The paper analyses two root lexemes and idioms derived from the lexemes in Turkish, which are posited as being crucial to understanding (im)politeness and relational work in Turkish culture, and discusses the implications of the analysis for conceptualizing relational work. It maintains that cultures may foreground different aspects of self toward which people show sensitivity in relational work, and that concerns over transactional issues are a major component of relational work.

  • Schnurr, Stephanie; Marra, Meredith; Holmes, Janet (2007): Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces. Māori and Pākehā leaders. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 712-729. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.016

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.016 

    Abstract: This paper investigates the ways in which leaders in ethnically diverse workplaces in New Zealand construct themselves as effective leaders in interaction with subordinates, whilst also taking account of the politeness norms of their specific workplaces. Case studies of two leaders, one from a Pākehā and one from a Māori workplace, illustrate that shared ethnic values and attitudes impact on the behaviour of all members of the leaders’ communities of practice. The analysis of meeting openings and the use of contestive humour demonstrate that what is considered appropriate behaviour in one organisational context, and what is perceived as constituting polite behaviour by group members, may be considered inappropriate and even impolite by members of another organisation. By behaving in ways that are in accordance with the norms developed in their ‘ethnicised’ communities of practice, leaders and other organisational members reinforce, maintain and shape these politeness norms.

  • Spencer-Oatey, Helen (2007): Theories of identity and the analysis of face. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 639-656. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.12.004

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.12.004 

    Abstract: This paper explores the insights that theories of identity can offer for the conceptualisation and analysis of face. It argues that linguists will benefit from taking a multidisciplinary approach, and that by drawing on theory and research in other disciplines, especially in social psychology, they will gain a clearer and deeper understanding of face. The paper starts by examining selected theories of identity, focusing in particular on Simon's (2004) self-respect model of identity and Brewer and Gardner's (1996) theory of levels of identity. Key features from these theories are then applied to the conceptualisation and analysis of face. With the help of authentic examples, the paper demonstrates how inclusion of these multiple perspectives can offer a richer and more comprehensive understanding of face and the frameworks needed for analysing it.

  • Spencer-Oatey, Helen; Ruhi, Şükriye (2007): Identity, face and (im)politeness. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 635-638. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.12.003

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.12.003 

    Abstract: Face and (im)politeness are widely discussed and debated in the pragmatics literature. This special issue, which has developed out of a symposium presented at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference at Riva del Garda, Italy in 2005, aims to enrich our understanding of these concepts by examining them from the perspective of identity. The first three papers consider the conceptual insights that different (sub-)disciplines can offer for our understanding of face, (im)politeness and the management of rapport. They draw on work in social psychology on identity, and take a cognitive pragmatic perspective to deconstruct relevant emic concepts/lexemes. The next four papers present discourse-based research on the topic. They examine different types of identities, including role identities (e.g. leaders and mentors), national identities (e.g. Turkish and British), ethnic identities (e.g. Pakeha and Maori), community identities (e.g. Cyber-parish member), as well as individual identities, and analyse how these identities impact upon the (mis)management of face and rapport.

  • 2004

  • Weber, J. M.; Kopelman, S.; Messick, D. M. (2004): A conceptual review of decision making in social dilemmas. Applying a logic of appropriateness. In: Personality and social psychology review: An official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc 8 (3), S. 281-307. DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0803_4

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15454350 

    Abstract: Despite decades of experimental social dilemma research, "theoretical integration has proven elusive" (Smithson & Foddy, 1999, p. 14). To advance a theory of decision making in social dilemmas, this article provides a conceptual review of the literature that applies a "logic of appropriateness" (March, 1994) framework. The appropriateness framework suggests that people making decisions ask themselves (explicitly or implicitly), "What does a person like me do in a situation like this? " This question identifies 3 significant factors: recognition and classification of the kind of situation encountered, the identity of the individual making the decision, and the application of rules or heuristics in guiding behavioral choice. In contrast with dominant rational choice models, the appropriateness framework proposed accommodates the inherently social nature of social dilemmas, and the role of rule and heuristic based processing. Implications for the interpretation of past findings and the direction of future research are discussed.

  • 1996

  • Fraas, Claudia (1996): Gebrauchswandel und Bedeutungsvarianz in Textnetzen. Die Konzepte Identität und Deutsche im Diskurs zur deutschen Einheit. Tübingen: Narr
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