Marking a sense of self and politics in interviews on political engagement

Interpretive logics and the metapragmatics of identity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6084775
AutoresJan Zienkowski (0000-0001-8240-3695)
Año2015
Volumen14
Número5
Páginas665-688
Fecha de publicación2015-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.14.5.03zie
OpenAlexW2297189622
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

This paper explores the relationship between notions of self and politics in discourse on political engagement. By means of a heuristic inspired by the poststructuralist notion of logic and the pragmatic concept of metapragmatic awareness, the author argues that metapragmatic markers play an important role in communicating interpretive processes that inform preferred and disavowed modes of subjectivity. He relies on an interview conducted with an activist involved in Flemish minority politics in order to show how activists distinguish between preferred and disavowed modes of politics. In dealing with the multiplicity of identities and issues that constitute political debates, activists need to establish and communicate some degree of coherence. Metapragmatic awareness allows interlocutors to establish patterns of coherence that can be described in terms of interpretive logics. The author presents a strong case for taking the reflexive awareness of language users into account when studying society-wide debates

Ambivalence · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy · Conversation · Epistemology · Flemish · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology