Sierra
Biographic Data
| ID | 19662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sierra |
| FAMILY NAME | Sierra |
| SIGNATURE | SIERRA |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5859-154X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists
Recently there has been renewed interest in the intersection of identity and epistemics in social interaction, yet epistemics has still rarely been analyzed in political identity construction. This paper combines research on identity from a sociocultural linguistic perspective with epistemics using Conversation Analysis. The focus here is on understanding how a small group of student activists construct their shared political identities through e…
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation
The epistemics of authentication and denaturalization in the construction of identities in social interaction
This study merges sociocultural linguistic work on identity construction in interaction with the study of epistemic management in conversation analysis (CA). While some CA scholars have examined identity without relying on epistemics, and others study epistemics without a focus on identity, I hope to contribute to a renewal in the exploration of identity and epistemics in interaction, building on a few recent studies. I examine the discursive pro…
“Nasty Question” and “Fake News”: Metadiscourse as a Resource for Denying Accusations of Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Press Events
This paper analyzes how Trump uses metadiscourse as a strategy for denying accusations of racism. We conduct a discourse analysis of press event interactions where Trump denies journalists’ accusations of racism or where Trump himself voices others’ accusations of racism and then denies these accusations. Analysis of 8 excerpts illustrates how Trump a) uses metadiscourse to reframe his own talk as “accurate” instead of “racist,” b) uses “fake new…
A Mexican Autodefensa Facebook Group’s use of binarity, legitimization strategies, and topoi of religion, family and struggle
Linguistic and ethnic media stereotypes in everyday talk: Humor and identity construction among friends
Buffy sings to Cody”: A multimodal analysis of mother and pre-lingual-infant question–response sequences
Playing out loud: Videogame references as resources in friend interaction for managing frames, epistemics, and group identity
This study examines how friends in their mid-twenties appropriate texts from videogames they have played to serve particular functions in their everyday face-to-face conversations. Speakers use references to the videogames Papers, Please and The Oregon Trail to shift the epistemic territories of conversations when they encounter interactional dilemmas. These epistemic shifts simultaneously rekey formerly problematic talk (on topics like rent, mon…
Linguistic and ethnic media stereotypes in everyday talk: Humor and identity construction among friends
Playing out loud: Videogame references as resources in friend interaction for managing frames, epistemics, and group identity
This study examines how friends in their mid-twenties appropriate texts from videogames they have played to serve particular functions in their everyday face-to-face conversations. Speakers use references to the videogames Papers, Please and The Oregon Trail to shift the epistemic territories of conversations when they encounter interactional dilemmas. These epistemic shifts simultaneously rekey formerly problematic talk (on topics like rent, mon…
The epistemics of authentication and denaturalization in the construction of identities in social interaction
This study merges sociocultural linguistic work on identity construction in interaction with the study of epistemic management in conversation analysis (CA). While some CA scholars have examined identity without relying on epistemics, and others study epistemics without a focus on identity, I hope to contribute to a renewal in the exploration of identity and epistemics in interaction, building on a few recent studies. I examine the discursive pro…
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation
A Mexican Autodefensa Facebook Group’s use of binarity, legitimization strategies, and topoi of religion, family and struggle
Playing out loud: Videogame references as resources in friend interaction for managing frames, epistemics, and group identity
This study examines how friends in their mid-twenties appropriate texts from videogames they have played to serve particular functions in their everyday face-to-face conversations. Speakers use references to the videogames Papers, Please and The Oregon Trail to shift the epistemic territories of conversations when they encounter interactional dilemmas. These epistemic shifts simultaneously rekey formerly problematic talk (on topics like rent, mon…
Buffy sings to Cody”: A multimodal analysis of mother and pre-lingual-infant question–response sequences
Linguistic and ethnic media stereotypes in everyday talk: Humor and identity construction among friends
A Mexican Autodefensa Facebook Group’s use of binarity, legitimization strategies, and topoi of religion, family and struggle
“Nasty Question” and “Fake News”: Metadiscourse as a Resource for Denying Accusations of Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Press Events
This paper analyzes how Trump uses metadiscourse as a strategy for denying accusations of racism. We conduct a discourse analysis of press event interactions where Trump denies journalists’ accusations of racism or where Trump himself voices others’ accusations of racism and then denies these accusations. Analysis of 8 excerpts illustrates how Trump a) uses metadiscourse to reframe his own talk as “accurate” instead of “racist,” b) uses “fake new…
A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists
Recently there has been renewed interest in the intersection of identity and epistemics in social interaction, yet epistemics has still rarely been analyzed in political identity construction. This paper combines research on identity from a sociocultural linguistic perspective with epistemics using Conversation Analysis. The focus here is on understanding how a small group of student activists construct their shared political identities through e…
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation
The epistemics of authentication and denaturalization in the construction of identities in social interaction
This study merges sociocultural linguistic work on identity construction in interaction with the study of epistemic management in conversation analysis (CA). While some CA scholars have examined identity without relying on epistemics, and others study epistemics without a focus on identity, I hope to contribute to a renewal in the exploration of identity and epistemics in interaction, building on a few recent studies. I examine the discursive pro…
Sociology (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Conversation (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Communication (4 works)