Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index
Identity as an achievement and as a tool / Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe. I. Salience and the business of identity. The relevant thing about her : social identity categories in use / Derek Edwards -- How gun-owners accomplish being deadly average / Andy McKinlay and Anne Dunnett -- "But you don't class yourself" : the interactional management of category membership and non-membership / Sue Widdicombe -- Identity ascriptions in their time and place : "Fagin" and "The terminally dim" / Charles Antaki. II. Discourse identities and social identities. Identity, context and interaction / Don H. Zimmerman -- Mobilizing discourse and social identities in knowledge talk / Robin Wooffitt and Colin Clark -- Talk and identity in divorce mediation / David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall. III. Membership categories and their practical and institutional relevance. Describing "deviance" in school : recognizably educational psychological problems / Stephen Hester -- Being ascribed, and resisting, membership of an ethnic group / Dennis Day -- Handling "incoherence" according to the speaker's on-sight categorization / Isabella Paoletti. IV. Epilogue. Identity as an analysts' and a participants' resource / Sue Widdicombe