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Accounting for extreme prejudice and legitimating blame in talk about the Romanies
This article examines the particulars of extreme prejudiced discourse about ethnic minorities in a Romanian sociocultural context. It concentrates on a detailed analysis of a single case taken from a wider project aimed at comparing and contrasting the way Romanians talle about Hungarians with the way they talk about Romanies. The article examines in detail the discourse of a middle-class Romanian accounting for prejudice and discrimination towards Romanies as part of an interview on a series of controversial issues surrounding ethnic minorities. This article tries to highlight and interrogate claims that Romanies are to blame for prejudice against them. The analysis, inspired by a critical discursive approach, has a discursive and conversational analytic focus to examine switches in talk about 'us' to talk that blames 'them'. The analysis suggests that talk about Romanies is more extreme than the anti-alien, anti-immigrant prejudiced talk studied by numerous western critical researchers. It is more extreme because Romanies are not merely portrayed as being different, but also as being beyond the moral order, beyond nationhood, difference and comparison. Talk about Romanies employs a style that, at the same time, denies, but also protects extreme prejudice. This article illustrates and discusses some of the discursive, rhetorical and interpretative resources used to talk about and legitimate the blaming of Romanies. In examining the dynamics of extreme prejudice against Romanies, this article provides a critical investigation of the social and political consequences of extreme discursive patterning. Implications for the study of discursive construction and representation of difference in talk about Romanies are also discussed.
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What is a 'revolution'?: National commemoration, collective memory and managing authenticity in the representation of a political event
This article examines the production and management of an ideological representation of a specific political 'event': the Romanian 'revolution' of 1989. A critical discursive psychological approach to analyzing political discourse is used to examine commemorative addresses in the Romanian parliament. The analysis explores: (a) issues of agency, entitlement and working with regard to actual or possible alternatives; (b) a pattern of recurring categorical incumbency shifts; (c) managing the authenticity and the true nature of the 'event' through invoking category-bound knowledge and predicates commonsensically attachable to the notion of 'revolution'; and (d) formulating and orienting to the 'events of 1989' as 'revolution' and 'foundational' moment in national history. It is argued that the main ideological function of drawing on such resources is that of framing/refraining, controlling the various interpretations, public (re) formulations of the Romanian 'revolution', disconnecting it from its controversial particulars and delegitimizing criticism. For a political 'event' to acquire an 'identity', it needs to be cast into a category with associated characteristics or features. The occasioned ideological and political significance of a political 'event' lies also in its consequentiality in and for the social and ideological context in which it is invoked.
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Cautious morality: Public accountability, moral order and accounting for a conflict of interest
This article draws upon discursive psychology to explore the organization of public accountability in accounting for an alleged conflict of interest in journalism. The analysis focuses on the published record of an interview given by the editorial director of one of the major Romanian daily newspapers on the issue of an assumed conflict of interest involving a senior editor of the same newspaper. The analysis shows how a moral order is constituted by the use of various discursive resources: role and professional incumbency discourse, disposition avowals and doing being fair/democratic. This is a moral order where adherence to personal ethical principles, professional incumbencies and responsibilities are practically managed in dialogue and publicly displayed. Acting in-role, reporting a general disposition to engage in moral courses of action and making reference to the values of citizenship and democracy are all publicly available discursive resources used in this context to express a cautious moral judgement bounded and constrained by both personal and professional accountability perspectives.
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Ethnic solidarity as interactional accomplishment: An analysis of interethnic complaints in Romanian and Hungarian focus groups
This article examines ethnic solidarity as a phenomenon contingent on how ethnicity is formulated as a category of experience and deployed as a category of interpretation in interaction. Analysis of interethnic complaint sequences from Romanian and Hungarian group discussions – consisting of generic formulations of complaints as commonsense knowledge followed by personal experience stories offered as illustrations of the generic complaint-shows that the accomplishment of ethnic solidarity depends on the discursive practices implicated in constructing complaints by reference to commonsense knowledge or personal experience. By analyzing the discursive construction of commonsense and experience-based interethnic complaints and its implications for the achievement of group solidarity, this research extends the insights of the sociological and anthropological literature on the situational and contextual nature of ethnicity, and contributes to conversation analytic approaches to the deployment of shared knowledge and experience in interaction.
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Discourse, dominance and power relations: Inequality as a social and interactional object
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.
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