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Discourse, dominance and power relations - inequality as a social and interactional object

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posted on 2013-02-08, 14:08 authored by Cristian TileagaCristian Tileaga
This article focuses on some of the issues that arise when examining social inequality and similar notions such as dominance or group superiority as participants’ concerns. It emphasizes the importance of understanding constructions of inequality in terms of how they are (1) situated, constructed and invoked in talk; and (2) oriented to and part of actions and ideological practices. These concerns are illustrated with an example from an interview with majority group members on ethnic issues. This shows how particular orientations to and descriptions of inequality are constructed and what they might be doing. Implications for the study of the discursive construction and representation of social inequality in talk and the nature of inequality as an object in interaction are discussed.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Citation

TILEAGA, C., 2006. Discourse, dominance and power relations - inequality as a social and interactional object. Ethnicities, 6 (4), pp. 476 - 497.

Publisher

© SAGE Publications

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2006

Notes

Closed access. This article was published in the journal, Ethnicities [© Sage] and the defintive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796806070719

ISSN

1468-7968

Language

  • en