Identities in Talk

Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool/PART ONE: SALIENCE AND THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITY/The Relevant Thing about Her/Social Identity Categories in Use/How Gun Owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average/`But You Don't Class Yourself'/The Interactional Management of Category Membership and Non-Membership/Identity Ascriptions in Their Time and Place/`Fagin' and `The Terminally Dim'/PART TWO: DISCOURSE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES/Identity Context and Interaction/Mobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk/Talk and Identity in Divorce Mediation/PART THREE: MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND THEIR PRACTICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RELEVANCE/Describing `Deviance' in School/Recognizably Educational Psychological Problems/Being Ascribed and Resisting Membership of an Ethnic Group/Handling `Incoherence' According to the Speaker's On-Sight Categorization/PART FOUR: EPILOGUE/Identity as an Analysts' and a Participants' Resource